Default Map location incorrect - Where is the setting to change it?

Hello,

Does anyone know how to set where the Connect's map starts at by default?

When I go to a map-related screen, it enters, by default, on a city more than 100kms away from where I live. It makes it quite a pain to have to re-locate the map view every time on my own city.

Thanks in advance,
-Neil

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INFO627 5 months ago +1

None of the above is true (for me). I have about 40 routes starting and finishing at my home in southern England, but the map defaults to Olathe in Kansas! NOT HELPFUL is right e7andy!

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0 6217159 over 2 years ago

Wow! 5 years later and the problem still exists with NO solution! I'm in Dallas and the stupid thing keeps defaulting to some place in Kansas! NOT HELPFUL!!

0 e7andy over 2 years ago in reply to 6217159

The trick is to have at least one course at your home location. The map will set the location of the map so all your courses will fit. At least the start and end points.

0 olni65 over 2 years ago

I guess that - as long as e7andy wrote you haven't at least one course - the map has to start somewhere (although I agree it would be nice to remember where it was located and zoomed in last time) and Garmin has chosen their headquarters in Olathe, Kansas.

www.garmin.com/.../

0 seilogramp over 2 years ago in reply to 6217159

6217159 said:
5 years later

A lot longer than 5 years. More like 11years and before that it was motionbased.com which, if I recall, might have had this feature but never migrated over to Garmin Connect.

0 INFO627 5 months ago

None of the above is true (for me). I have about 40 routes starting and finishing at my home in southern England, but the map defaults to Olathe in Kansas! NOT HELPFUL is right e7andy!

0 BunBun! 5 months ago in reply to INFO627

It's an old post, you can't expect the workaround to still work. Earlier it did.