Controlling waypoint icons

Former Member
Former Member
Hi all,

I have just signed in to this forum and I hope for feedback on a problem that came up while preparing my touristic trip in a week from now.

I prepared a number of waypoints in Google Maps, then downloaded and imported them into BaseCamp and the Garmin map. Using BaseCamp, I then modified the waypoint icons to differentiate between hotels, restaurants, places-to-see, parking lots, etc. No problems, all good.

My problem is now that, after I transferred these into my new DriveSmart LMT-D, all appear on that instrument with a default icon instead. That is “survivable”, but not pleasant. I know that I can change the icons one by one on the instrument but, my number of waypoints being quite large, it’s cumbersome (to put it mildly).

Maybe I overlooked an option or a smarter way of doing this. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    Hello RoeGarMer,
    As you probably already suspect....BaseCamp icons are generally not the same as your device icons. There are some in common however but you will have to make a test file on your device with waypoints using its icons and send it to BaseCamp to see which ones BaseCamp will recognize....a real PITA.