I've seen many older character maps posted, and those older posts showed a fairly close correspondence between the symbols as displayed in GPSMapEdit, and the way the symbols displayed on the actual GPSr.
I'm a little puzzled with the Marine Navaids, however. I've used a basic blue navaid in many applications, and the symbols always translate to a round blue filled circle.
GPSMapEdit has at least 3 choices for "Navaid, blue" all with different hex codes, all showing on the GPSMapEdit selection menu (v 1.1.75.2) as blue filled circles surrounded by 6 rays. It seems like every one produces the same result on my 62stc -- what looks like a blue exclamation point tilted at 45 degrees (NE), with the "dot" on the waypoint location.
I wouldn't mind if the symbol showed up on the GPSr as either a simple filled blue circle, or a filled circle surrounded by rays. Before I make a symbol map, is there some place I should look for this info?
UPDATE: I just made an mp with a whole slew of symbols, checked it on the 62stc. Nothing looks remotely like a navaid blue. The "navaid blue" symbols form GPSMapEdit show up on the 62stc as variations on the exclamation point theme. The various city symbols show up as small dots varying down to very small dots. Many symbols don't show up at all.
I'd really like files that have similar appearance of modern Garmins of varied type, so I don't want to peg appearance to another file that must be loaded on the gps... folks have a hard enough time with installing the maps! Thanks