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I have 2 GPSrs, a Garmin 60CS and a Magellan SporTrak. I have EasyGPS set up to load waypoints to both. Last night I was going to upload waypoint to my 60CS when I noticed I had a "Crosshair" icon (synbol) instaed of the normal "Waypoint" symbol. WTF? I also noticed you don't get as many symbols with the SporTrak. I went to the GPS setting after I clicked on "Send" and discovered it was set the SporTrak instead. I changed it back and all was normal again.

 

BTW, you can change all the waypoints at once to the geocaching symbol.

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Centex, I just ran through this exercise from a stored waypoint set. I selected all waypoints, right clicked on the top one and selected 'edit waypoints'.

 

It then brought me to a 'bulk waypoint editor' where you can change all waypoints to a certain icon, ie closed treasure chest.

 

hope this helps

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Make sure you have the 60CS in the GPS list, <Add GPS> if it isn't there.

 

Every time you change GPS units you have to change the active GPS in preferences.

I have a Garmin 48 and a Garmin 60C

 

Highlight the GPS that you are connecting to easyGPS in the preferences list and that set of icons will be the ones that are active.

 

There are also typos in the names for many of the 60C marine navaid icons in easygps.

 

USBprefs.jpg

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Ok, THAT is because EasyGPS knows the onboard default symbol set for each GPS it supports.

 

For my old Garmin 48:

 

symbols.jpg

 

and for my new Garmin 60C:

 

symbols1.jpg

 

 

The software is merely letting you know that for the current active GPS, there are a given set of waypoint symbols that the software can communicate to the GPS.

 

I have noticed two problems with my 60C so far:

 

1. If you look at the picture, you'll see that a bunch of the navaids' symbol names have been given errors by EasyGPS

 

2. EasyGPS also cannot use the 24 custom uploadable/user defined waypoints of the 60C

 

With an earlier revision of EasyGPS they had a similar error with the X-Mark symbol on the 48.

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