Is it possible to enlarge the size of Nuvi 670 POI icon's ?

SGH42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 18

Just bought a Nuvi 670 & have found some of the icon's for POI are very small, Is there an option to make these bigger ?

Thanks
Steve

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject:

I don't know the Nuvi, but noticed you don't say "the icons are too small" but "some of the icons are too small".

If some really are bigger than the others then I'd say you definately can make the others bigger to match.
At a guess, you need to find the names and locations of the icon files, open up one of the big ones in a "paint" program, note down the dimensions and then open up a small one and re-size it to match.

SGH42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 18

Hi,

Any idea how to edit the file(s), they have a .gpi extension ?

Cheers

Steve

SGH42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 18

Andy_P · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject:

A quick Google search reveals that the .gpi file is actually the POI file itself, but the icon consists of .bmp image data incorporated into the file.
As I say, I don't know anything about Garmin, but it looks like you need some tools to un-pick the .gpi file, tweak the icon and then put it together again.
Whether this will get the results you want I don't know. TomTom's icons are restricted to 22x22 pixels IIRC, so it's still odd that you say only some of yours are small.

Digging slightly deeper, I found this:

SGH42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 22, 2007 Posts: 18

I'll have a look at that, Cheers.

The ones that are small are the ones preloaded by garmin, if I download POI from the net then the size for them is fine.

Thanks
Steve

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