Hi WalrusLike,
I have a gpsmap 551 as plotter. You can set the amount of information shown on routes to show "turn 1" "turn 2" etc, or by waypoint name or whether the description of turns is hidden. To do this from your home screen select 'Configure>Preferences>Navigation
Select Route labels and turn descriptions off.
Hope this works and helps.
Regards
Stewey
Thanks Stewey. I appreciate your input. Unfortunately I believe I have already done that and it's not the names that are visible but rather the square icon of each waypoint.Originally Posted by Stewey
Have a look at the route at the very bottom left just above the depth reading. As the route turns into the main channel you can see that it's not showing names just those big fat beacon sized squares.
The names you see elsewhere are from extraneous waypoints of other 'tracks'. It seems the setting only hides the names of the currently displayed route. All other unrelated waypoints are icons and named.
I think the only way to manage it is manually enter routes that don't follow channel twists they are just a rough guide to the route. So there is much less waypoints involved.
Kinda makes a mockery of being able to have 3000 waypoints. You wouldn't be able to see the map.
I must admit this has me slightly annoyed. I have seen other plotters where the waypoints can be a wide range of symbols or invisible and can be globally defined and shown or hidden.
Rats. 😄
Hi WalrusLike,
I usually use the "guide to" feature with the g2 vision chart and dont save specific routes. I have saved tracks for navigating say baffle creek near bundy, and have followed these. works ok for me.
You can change the symbol for each mark either through Garmin Homeport fot the pc or on the gps. Try Information>User data>Waypoints
Select the waypoint you want to edit
Select Edit Waypoint.
Select the attribute you wish to change eg Symbol. Etc
Stewey
Last edited by Stewey; 16-04-2012 at 07:16 PM. Reason: extra info
Ah... The 'guide to' is good but it needs the Vision card I think. I don't have one so I don't have that option.
It's a good user friendly unit.... I will just have to adjust my ideas I think. I appreciate the inputs. Cheers guys.
Yeah I only set my waypoints manually, but although it hasn't worried me I agree that you should be able to hide them on your view. I will have a play with it when I get some time.
Thanks Anthony and others.... Just using tracks seems to be the solution. I tried it on the weekend. I removed all routes and waypoints. Turned tracks on when wanting to lay a course. The track is a cleaner display.
The only slight problem is if you drive all over the place dodging oncoming boats and giant wakes, your path is not the cleanest, shortest line. Still better than the ugly squares though.
Another slight issue is the fact that you can't preplot the course. It is chart only till you've been there at least once.
Also I noticed that at the northern side of Peel there seems to be more beacons on the water than on the Garmin. 'Beacon to Beacon' helped there. I may need to manually add some beacons using the book so that I have a more accurate display.
Is there an international flag for 'just paused here stuffing around trying to reset the trip meter'?
Might stop some of the funny looks you get idling in strange places. (they were not unsafe, or in-the-way places)
M,Y,6 When flown vertically they mean " It is dangerous to approach close to my vessel" or;
P,P "you should keep well clear of me"
That is the closest I could find for you Walrus
Cheers Richo
Thanks for that....
P,P "you should keep well clear of me"
That is the closest I could find for you Walrus
Cheers Richo
My missus shoulda had that dangling from her window when we first met..... 😄
[edit: I really shouldn't joke like that... She might find out, and in actual fact we have been happily married for 32 years]
I saw on another thread that Garmin are making the G2 available now for free. Don't know if it's new purchasers only or what... But given the 'guide to' option that comes with it I think I should follow this up.
One tip I have now is that if you go to a new area turn tracking on and after the trip turn save it with a name. That way you can follow where you've been before. The track line is not as obtrusive as the big bloody waypoint squares.
But better than that, and here's the tip... You can colour code your tracks. And set the display to only show the colour you want.
So when you do a trip on ordinary mid-low tide or higher, save it as, say, a green track. But if you go out at dead low save it as a Red track. That way if you are navigating at night at dead low you can select 'display red tracks' and you know that path is safe... Barring movement in banks etc.
I feel proud of thinking of this low tide colour code thing.... Please tell me its my novel idea and not one that everyone's always done....
Good tip on the colour coding, I didnt know that.
It is a real pleasure to be able to, in a tiny way, pay a boating tip back to you.
Walrus, dont know if this will help you or if you havent allready sorted out your problemo but ive only recently purchased a garmin unit myself and loaded a shyteload of waypoints on it from my other plotter in anticipation to the other packing it in anytime in the near future.
Point is when zoomed out most my waypoint symbols show up as blackish, greyish squares all stacked atop each other akin to yours due to the quantity of them on the smaller area and when zoomed out and they space out they become the symbols i originally selected & in this case fish symbols .
Would have preferred just plane ole "X" symbols as other plotter but garmin doesnt supply that kind of symbol that i could find so went for the Fish symbols to markand ID my waypoints.
Now i can hide the symbols as well as name or ID ive given them to keep the screen uncluttered if i wish and i'm sure you would be able to also.
Though i haven as yet made up any routes i presume when you do make up a route you will have to give each leg/turn or whatever a symbol and once those symbols are so many and stack atop each other like previouse said they all come up squares & why !!!?? beats the shyte out of me ey??.
A garmin thing fer sure!!??..
Anyway like others have said , suss out your manual and sure you will be able to hide them though not sure whether you can do so all in one go or individually.
Zoomed out on my Navman all my "X"'s heaped up atop of each other also but when zoomed in a tad good thing with the "X" it doesnt clutter the screen as much.
Anyway hope it helped a tad??.
Thanks Volvo, it is strange isn't it that they don't give you X as a symbol. Or even better just a tiny dot.
But anyway I am sorted now thank you because I am using tracks instead of routes. Works much better. I wrote about them in posts 21 & 25.
I will be using waypoints and routes later on in a different way.., I am going to put a waypoint at the actual decision points in a trip... So the route is the rough guide and the track is the actual path.
In your case... With the 551S I can't do a bulk waypoint symbol change so I think you are stuck with the fishes unless you are bored for several hours and do them individually.
Elsewhere I read that Garmin are making the G2 card available for free. Don't know if it's new purchasers only.
Ordered a G2 Vision card and just got my homeport card in the post today. G2 card from what i understand is a basic map card which also allows you to pre-edit wayponits routes etc though with the Vision card one gets more detailed info etc.
Not speaking from experience here but just from what ive read n been informed n time will tell??..
Reason i like to have all or most my waypointson my plotter showing , like most its handy when your navigating to one possy to see if passing close by anothery how far a detour off your main leg it is??..As well as if one possy aint running hot , how close the next one is and the screen can get quite cluttered if your symbols are rather large or detaled hence a simple "X" ive found the best.
Wife, five grandkids, Boat , camera and a vegypatch ones never bored mate and most times lookin fer somewhere ta hide n rest...
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