Re: Blue Chart and Marine Symbols

From: Mark Zak (markzak_at_barzak.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:24:26 GMT

Many thanks Capt. T.

Just returned home and have not had a chance to follow up on your responce
which I trully appreciate.
Thank you again

Mark Zak

"tallen" <tallen01@rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
news:xTOXd.87216$H05.75466@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Mapsource v 6.5 (Note, I said Mapsource which drives Blue Chart) has a
> group of 8 generic blue dot symbols in .bmp format that were loaded into
> your Documents Settings>My Documents>My Garmin>Custom Waypoint Symbols
> folder. The blue dots are labeled 001, 002, 003, etc. Do the
> following....
>
> Open the 001 file in Paint and SAVE AS 008. Then close that out. That
> establishes a new generic blue dot symbol to be used later on as you will
> probably want to make more than 8 waypoint symbols. You need to continue
> to "save as" numbering sequentially ( 009,010,011, etc.)or things get
> mucked up in the Mapsource application...like you can't find them.
>
> Next open 001 again and zoom in to 800% and make whatever IALA symbol you
> wish. Then save it as 001.
> Then get 002, modify it and save as 002...yada, yada.
>
> I've made up a whole bunch of ICW markers, bifrucation buoys, fairwater
> buoy, towers, etc. The list goes on and on. The symbols can be used with
> any of the charting apps that run on MapSource. I believe that you can
> make up to 64 total. But someone else can confirm that.
>
> Ping me o/l if you want more info at; tallen01@rochester.rr.com.
>
> Capt. T.
>
> Mark Zak wrote:
>
>>Are such symbols available for importation into BlueChart ?
>>
>>
>