Re: [Qlandkartegt-users] which format is needed for Garmin waypoint icons?

[Gerhard S. <Ger...@gm...>]

On Monday 09 August 2010 10:46:46 Oliver Eichler wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> as Jörg suspected the icons have to be in BMP format and use the standard colortable. I never found out the details. 
BMP can be anything and nothing. But if it is a win3.1 backward compatible bitmap it should work. 
> 
> 
> Oliver
> 
Hi,

I managed to create an icon which is accepted if I take the file "custom15x15.bmp" as a base and copy the png icon into 
it. All attempts to directly convert the png to bmp with Gimp weren't successful (maybe due to my limited skills with 
this tool ;-). By the way, custom15x15.bmp is a 16x16 bitmap in Gimp, isn't that strange?

If these restrictions on the icon format are true for all Garmin devices, wouldn't it be good to set the filter in the 
file open dialogue in the custom waypoint dialogue to *.bmp? Maybe a bit more verbose error message about the bmp 
requirements would also be helpful (it really just said "/path/to/file bad format")

regards

Gerhard

> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 22:34:11 +0200
> > Von: Gerhard Stengel <Ger...@gm...>
> > An: qla...@li...
> > Betreff: [Qlandkartegt-users] which format is needed for Garmin waypoint	icons?
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > since I use a map built with OSM composer (
> > http://composer.waldpfa.de/index.php/MC.Download ) I thought it was nice to 
> > upload some of these custom waypoint icons on my GPSmap 60 Csx. 
> > I can choose the icons in QLandkarteGT in the Preferences|Garmin waypoint
> > icons dialogue, but if I try to upload them I 
> > get a message about a format error. The icons are all pngs, but their size
> > varies a bit: I've seen samples like 12x10, 
> > 11x5, 12x13 pixels.
> > What does QLandkarteGT exactly complain about? Is it just the size or the
> > png format? If it's just the size, what does 
> > the Garmin unit expect?
> > 
> > best regards
> > 
> > Gerhard
> >