You can even create your own symbols and upload them. These will not be imported into QGIS, but you can read the file with a text editor.Īs an example, symbols of the Garmin Oregon 6xx are listed at this site. Chart Symbols This table contains some of the common symbols you might see on the detailed charts. The available symbols depend on the GPS units, so you might create a sample GPX file with the unit and test all available symbols. Other features (like label) will be exported in the element, and probably ignored by a GPS unit. Remember to save into EPSG:4326, as GPX only allows that. So if you have a shapefile in QGIS, create columns with names sym and type and export it to GPX format with GPX_USE_EXTENSIONS=YES (which is default for GPX since QGIS 2.4). The Garmin Instinct 2 apparently shacked up with a prettier colleague from the Vivomove series division, resulting in this new hand-laden Garmin Instinct edition, aptly called the Instinct Crossover. You may also include a 'type' tag with the same name. If you want RoadTrip to display one of these symbols when you import a gpx file, you can insert a symbol tag with the exact name shown.
Lat.=51.295094, Long.=6.790674, Alt.=39.000000m, Speed=3Km/h, Course=45deg. This is a list of all 248 waypoint symbols in Garmin's RoadTrip software with the names and images for each. Using pure GDAL, you can preserve the waypoint symbol and type of an original GPX file with ogr2ogr -f GPX -dsco GPX_USE_EXTENSIONS=YES out.gpx in.gpx waypoints
