streetpilot c340 map symbol weirdness

Wednesday May 21st 2008

As I mentioned in a recent post, my Garmin StreetPilot c340 is still working just fine. However there’s one thing with it that bugs me. It has nothing to do with the operation of the unit but rather the way it displays map symbols.

This is what the map symbols look like on the c340:

lg-c340

And this is what one of the map symbols look like close-up:

sm-c340

For some strange reason the map symbol icons are distorted.

This is what the map symbols look like on the c580:

lg-c580

And this is what one of the map symbols look like close-up:

sm-c580

As you can see there’s a huge difference. The c340’s icons have a skewed/pixelated look while the c580’s (that has identical icons) look the way they’re supposed to.

Now what’s interesting is that the c340’s icons didn’t always look this way. Somewhere along the line it just decided to skew/pixelate them for no apparent reason.

Things I’ve done in an attempt to correct this:

  • Removal of all POIs with custom icons. I figured that maybe the custom icons in tow with custom POIs might have caused an issue, but they didn’t.
  • Removal of all waypoints/favorites. Again I figured that maybe this had something to do with it, but no dice.
  • Factory reset. This is where you press/hold bottom right corner while unit is off, turn it on, unit asks if you wish to reset everything to factory default, I tap “Yes” and it does so. No luck here either.

None of the above worked.

There’s no issue with the way the c340 operates, but I wish I knew what was causing the icon distortion problem. I don’t know if the data is corrupted or if there’s something I need to reset that I didn’t(?)

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