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HP Drifter

Hi all. Setup: InReach Mini2, Android w/Explore App, Explore Web. This question is about using Explore Web.

The red arrow in both images is an Activity that I converted to a route in Web then exported to my pute and then imported into a non-Garmin web software. It works and appears as one would expect and looks the same as a route I drew in Explore Web and imported in the same manner.

The purple arrow is a route/course/track or something that a few years back I also created from an Activity and converted to something somehow, but I do not know how I did this and have been unable to re-create it. It has many more points and resembles exactly the nature/shape of an Activity. I would like to be able to use this type of import again in the non-Garmin software as it shows exactly where I traveled, but I have no idea how I created it.

That file (purple arrow) and the file type represented by the blue arrow get exported every time in the GPX file even if I have hidden everything on the map screen entirely. The blue arrow files import as very course line, maybe lines drawn between 10 minute intervals. Where are they coming from? Is it not possible with Web to simply select one file and export it?

Import/Export in Web is so very confusing and extremely difficult to figure out.

Thanks,

William

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    Explore web export functionality is indeed quite confusing. It will export items that are visible in your library with the filters and visibility of collections that has been configured. So it will not export the selected item, it will export all visible items in your library into a single GPX file.

    If you want to export a single item, you need to create a collection and add the item to it, hide all other collections, and then click export.

    However, Explore web will not export activities. So if you want to export an activity from Explore web, you first have to convert it to a track or route. Also routes will be exported as tracks, not as GPX routes. Alternatively you can use Explore app to export an activity to GPX. To convert an activity, select it in the library and use the icon with the two arrows in it.

    As for tracks that are not very detailed, these are the summaries of the tracking points that have been sent via inReach. Those tracks are indeed not very detailed due to the fact that the tracking points are sent every couple of minutes, depending on the tracking interval you have configured.

    Exporting Data From the Garmin Explore Website has more info on how the export functionality of Explore web works.

  • 0 in reply to JungleJim

    Thanks for the reply. That is kind of how I thought it was supposed to work but the items in the import screen with the specific format that my purple and blue arrows are pointing to never go away no matter what settings are used in Web export. Even if I completely hide everything by hiding all library and all collections, those items are still exported and appear in the other softwares import list. Any idea where they may be coming from?

  • 0 in reply to HP Drifter

    Not sure why those two tracks are always in the export. Could very well be a bug in the Explore website.

  • 0 in reply to JungleJim

    Ok thanks for your input. Appreciated.