![]() ![]() Some more investigation is required before I figure out how to use it effectively.īack at the plot, you may find this blog post useful if you are in the same situation. Suffice to say my experiences of BaseCamp so far aren’t brilliant. Both of these appear on the screen at roughly the same size as Arkansas. You are stuck with a closed wooden chest, or an open chest full of shiny gold coins. It’s therefore difficult to simply add another icon for it to use. I experimented a bit, but eventually concluded that BaseCamp sees geocaches as a special type of waypoint. Most of the articles I found concerned custom icons that could also be shared with Garmin’s BaseCamp PC tool for displaying caches. Some of the articles I found were in direct conflict with others. Many of the things I found were designed for users of the Garmin Oregon, which is an older and more mature product than my Montana. I found as many articles telling me it’s impossible as ones showing me how to do it. Google proved to be a double-edged sword. It was an interesting but ultimately successful journey. So I began to search the internet for Garmin Custom Icons, how to make them and set them up. The “Unknown” cache icon is particularly hard to see. They are a little small, and have colours to close to those on the maps. One the thing I’ve found difficult is that the standard icons for geocaches are quite difficult to see against the backdrop of a colourful map. I bought a Garmin Montana 650t at Christmas and I’ve used it a few times now for geocaching. The Gardners » Techie » Garmin Custom Icons ![]()
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