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Garmin Explore 4.0 Update Offline Maps Functionality Only For Purchased Maps??

I just updated the iOS app to the new version. I tried downloading an offline map, but it looks like there are no free maps any more? It looks like I can only use offline maps if I purchase the Outdoor Maps+ subscription. Is this correct??

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Arrrrgh over 1 year ago +1

It actually allowed me to “Save” the Tokyo offline map, with 0 layers 0 bytes.

then when I went back to get screenshots the app crashed just afterwards
Hamster over 1 year ago in reply to Arrrrgh +1

After the last update Garmin support got in touch again and on their advice I reinstalled the app, and I can now download the topoactive and satellite layers for Japan maps, all happy now, problem solved…

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0 empe over 1 year ago in reply to 8783228

the popular layer seems to work best with the topo map. Then you see purple lines. If you use it together with topo pro, the roads vanish or fade to gray

0 8783228 over 1 year ago in reply to empe

I’m not sure what you mean by topo pro. The only 3 map layers I have are labeled topo, satellite imagery, and basemap. I think in the old version the topo active map was labelled “topoactive” but now it appears to just be labeled as "topo”.

0 JungleJim over 1 year ago in reply to 8783228

The Topo Pro layer is part of the Outdoor Maps+ subscription. It is (mostly) the same mapping as the TOPO Pro maps you can purchase for Garmin outdoor handhelds, smartwatches and other devices.

What was called "Topo Active" in the previous Explore version is indeed now called "Topo".

0 8783228 over 1 year ago in reply to JungleJim

Thank you!

0 Arrrrgh over 1 year ago in reply to 8783228

Yes sat images has started working for me in Australia too now. Wasn’t before.

0 Hamster over 1 year ago in reply to JungleJim

I can actually download the topoactive maps if I choose a country other than Japan. So looks to be a system level restriction, not a bug, similar to how they’ve restricted the usgs from free use? Anyone’s guess if they intend to keep that setting, but it has been a week since they said they were looking into it, but they may just be overloaded with bug reports.

0 8783228 over 1 year ago

The "Hiking Guy" has a pretty good review of the Explore 4.0 update on YouTube. The comments are worth reading because people seem to be experiencing a lot of glitches and bugs in the update.
https://youtu.be/28ivQXg6bpY

0 Hamster over 1 year ago in reply to Hamster

Quick check shows that restrictions are in place for Japan, India and Myanmar, and there may be others, but I’m not going to zoom in and move around the whole globe. Can anyone else try and download an offline map for some part of Japan? Tokyo for example?

0 Hamster over 1 year ago in reply to 8783228

I watched that last night, I like his content, very helpful.

0 empe over 1 year ago in reply to Hamster

Here are some examples of the topo map (formerly topoactiv). For Japan is no topo pro map available.