In the comments to a previous post, someone asked if there were any place where you could find a legend for Garmin GPS unit waypoint icons. I pointed him to this Garmin page, which has a partial legend for Garmin MapSource icons, but it turns out that MapSource icons don’t always resemble the corresponding icons on a Garmin GPS unit.There’s no legend for Garmin GPS unit waypoint icons anywhere else that I could find, either on the Web or in Garmin’s own documentation. For future reference, I’ve put together the following tables of Garmin waypoint icons by category. This is how they’re displayed on my Garmin 60Cx, but they may well be different on other Garmin models. In parentheses below the label is the MapSource Symbol category which contains this icon. If your unit has different or additional icons, and you can send a copy of them to me, I’ll add them to this post.
Addendum: Here’s a pretty complete list of all available MapSource symbols; not all of them may be available on your specific Garmin unit.
Note: to see all the MapSource icons available, create a waypoint in MapSource, then in the Waypoint Properties box click on the dropdown next to “Symbol”.
Points of interest
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| Gas Station (Transport.) |
Convenience Store (Transport.) |
Bank (Business) |
Bar (Business) |
Department Store (Business) |
Movie Theater (Business) |
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| Fast Food (Business) |
Pizza (Business) |
Restaurant (Business) |
Lodging (Business) |
Shopping (Business) |
Airport (Aviation) |
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| Fitness Center (Business) |
Theater (Business) |
Medical Facility (Civil) |
Pharmacy (Business) |
Post Office (Civil) |
Museum (Business) |
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| Golf Course (Outdoors) |
Ball Park (Outdoors) |
Bowling (Business) |
Amusement Park (Business) |
Stadium (Business) |
Zoo (Business) |
Signs
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| Shopping (Business) |
Picnic Area (Outdoors) |
Telephone (Transport.) |
Airport (Aviation) |
Restrooms (Transport.) |
Information (Transport.) |
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| Restaurant (Business) |
Lodging (Business) |
Shower (Outdoors) |
Boat Ramp (Marine) |
Water Skiing Area (Outdoors) |
Swimming Area (Outdoors) |
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| Fitness Center (Business) |
Ice Skating Area (Outdoors) |
Medical Facility (Civil) |
Pharmacy (Business) |
Parking (Transport.) |
Crossing (Transport.) |
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| Trail Head (Outdoors) |
Bike Trail (Outdoors) |
Skull And Crossbones (Marine) |
Ski Resort (Outdoors) |
Bridge (Marine) |
Dam (Marine) |
Outdoors
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| Campground (Outdoors) |
Trail Head (Outdoors) |
Park (Outdoors) |
Forest (Outdoors) |
Hunting Area (Hunting) |
Fishing Area (Marine) |
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| Geocache (Outdoors) |
Geocache Found (Outdoors) |
Picnic Area (Outdoors) |
Restrooms (Transport.) |
Shower (Outdoors) |
Beach (Marine) |
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| RV Park (Outdoors) |
Scenic Area (Outdoors) |
Summit (Outdoors) |
Ski Resort (Outdoors) |
Swimming Area (Outdoors) |
Golf Course (Outdoors) |
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| Bike Trail (Outdoors) |
Drinking Water (Outdoors) |
Tunnel (Transport.) |
Parachuting Area (Aviation) |
Glider Area (Aviation) |
Ultralight Area (Aviation) |
Civil
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| Residence (Civil) |
Fishing Facility (Marine) |
Building (Civil) |
Church (Civil) |
Cemetery (Outdoors) |
Horn (Nav. Aid) |
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| Tall Tower (Civil) |
Short Tower (Civil) |
Radio Beacon (Nav. Aid) |
Oil Field (Civil) |
Mine (Civil) |
Drinking Water (Outdoors) |
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| School (Civil) |
Crossing (Transport.) |
Civil (Civil) |
Bridge (Marine) |
Police Station (Civil) |
Bell (Civil) |
Markers
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| Blue Flag (Marker) |
Green Flag (Marker) |
Red Flag (Marker) |
Blue Pin (Marker) |
Green Pin (Marker) |
Red Pin (Marker) |
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| Blue Block (Marker) |
Green Block (Marker) |
Red Block (Marker) |
Small City (Marker) |
Medium City (Marker) |
Large City (Marker) |
Transportation
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| Car (Civil) |
Car Rental (Transport.) |
Car Repair (Transport.) |
Gas Station (Transport.) |
Convenience Store (Transport.) |
Scales (Transport.) |
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| Airport (Aviation) |
Ground Transportation (Transport.) |
Truck Stop (Transport.) |
Wrecking (Transport.) |
Tunnel (Transport.) |
Toll Booth (Transport.) |
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| Restrooms (Transport.) |
Restaurant (Business) |
Lodging (Business) |
Crossing (Transport.) |
Bridge (Marine) |
Parking (Transport.) |
Marine
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| Anchor (Marine) |
Fishing Area (Marine) |
Man Overboard (Marine) |
Diver Down Flag 1 (Marine) |
Diver Down Flag 2 (Marine) |
Beach (Marine) |
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| Skull And Crossbones (Marine) |
Light (Nav. Aid) |
White Buoy (Nav. Aid) |
Shipwreck (Marine) |
Radio Beacon (Nav. Aid) |
Horn (Nav. Aid) |
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| Controlled Area (Marine) |
Restricted Area (Marine) |
Danger Area (Marine) |
Restaurant (Business) |
Bridge (Marine) |
Dam (Marine) |
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| Swimming Area (Outdoors) |
Boat Ramp (Marine) |
Water Skiing Area (Outdoors) |
Restrooms (Transport.) |
Gas Station (Transport.) |
Campground (Outdoors) |
Navaids
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| Navaid Amber (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Black (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Blue (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Green White (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Green (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Green Red (Nav. Aid) |
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| Navaid Orange (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Red Green (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Red White (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Red (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid Violet (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid White (Nav. Aid) |
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| Navaid White Green (Nav. Aid) |
Navaid White Red (Nav. Aid) |
White Buoy (Nav. Aid) |
Radio Beacon (Nav. Aid) |
Horn (Nav. Aid) |
Light (Nav. Aid) |
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Good Job. Whall be of great help. Only possible gripe would be the icons could have been displayed a little larger. They are currently a little difficult to view unless one gets real close.
Bigger Garmin waypoint icons? OK - are these better?
Thanks. Much appreciated as I think I created this work for you. I could never figure some of these out.
On my 60CSx the icons move around. Do you understand the logic? Might make it easier to find if I did. And is there anyway to turn off groups of icons. The Marine and Navaids are of no use to me.
Finally, how did Garmin decide that Cities weren’t civil?
It seems as though they move the groups of icons you’ve accessed most recently higher in the list, but that’s just an impression. There’s no way to turn off unwanted icons; if there were, I’d do what you want to do.
Some cities are civil, but some are not (Pyongyang?).
Have you been to Pyongyang? The government certainly isn’t civil, but the citizens might be.
Do you have the associated codes that Garmin uses for these icons?
There’s a complete list in the manual for cGPSmapper, available at http://cgpsmapper.com.