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Geocaching Icons for your Garmin eTrex Vista HCx


Mojoski

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I was hunting around for interesting things to do with my new Vista HCx and came across this web page:

 

http://www.thepropers.com/geocaching/60Ser...stomSymbols.htm

 

It was written a few years ago but still applied, generally, to my new device. The icons, however, were not compatible with my device, so I simply used the xImage program from Garmin to snag my own waypoint images and updated them with The Gimp to look like the ones the original author had created for his device.

 

A zip file of the resulting icons (and the garminother.txt file to use with GSAK) is included in my zip file at the following URL:

 

http://ourhikes.freespeech.com/Icons_for_Vista-HCx.zip

 

Follow the directions on that web page, but use the icons from my zip file instead if you have a eTrex Vista HCx.

 

In addition, I also decided to use the following codes in my GSAK config for the waypoint description field:

%Dif/%Ter C:%con1 TB:%bug=YN %last4 LF%datelf

 

With that set for the waypoint description in the appropriate GSAK settings, I can tell the Difficulty rating, Terrain rating, Cache type, Travel Bug status as well as what type the last 4 notes were and when the cache was last found, without having to open my Palm device up and get into CacheMate. ;)

 

Hope this is helpful for someone!

 

Mojoski

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