[aprssig] Nuvi-350 Station Symbols

[Scott Miller]

Exactly right.  Also, remember that you need the D710 in Kenwood 
waypoint mode to get symbols at all - otherwise you'll just get dots or 
flags.

As for the display of names and symbols at different scales, the nuvi 
apparently has some magic algorithm that it uses to decide when it can 
fit names and such on the screen.  It depends on how much map detail you 
have enabled, what else is close to it, and how far in you're zoomed.

I've captured a bunch of screen shots to build an animation of a car 
moving through a static map, and you can see even non-moving labels 
shuffle around a bit as the car comes through, and I think the label on 
the car shifts from being printed below to being above the icon.

The problem I had with the official POI upload capability in FMI v2 on 
my nuvi 750 was that even though I could create items on the map, they 
didn't show up AT ALL until you zoomed in to almost the lowest level. 
And the required scale changed if you panned the map.  I think they may 
have fixed that now.  Let's hope they get it more consistent if and when 
they make an official real-time waypoint function.

On the 350, with medium-high detail, I don't think I'm missing any local 
stations.  I can't always see the labels at all zoom levels, though.

Scott
N1VG

Patrick wrote:
> Unfortunately a custom symbol set is not an option for the nuvi (350 
> anyway).  The  gTrans cable does the same translations that the OT2 does 
> such that mobiles with cars as their icons should show up as cars, 
> trucks as trucks, helicopters will show up as blue flags, houses as 
> houses..  These I know of as I've seen them (my car id's itself as a 
> chopper), and I'm sure there are more, but ones with no equivalent will 
> get fall back to flags or dots..  There's a limited symbol set on the 
> nuvi so it attempts to keep things close, but can only do so much.
> 
> p
> 
> Quoting Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com>:
> 
>> There's a custom symbol set that Scott provides that I loaded on my
>> MAP60 to get custom APRS symbols, beyond the standard symbol set.  Not
>> sure if this applies to the Nuvi.
>>
>> -Jason
>> kg4wsv
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