Map implementation Fenix 6

Good morning everyone,

I have had some requests to enable mapping support as part of my sailing app ' Sail Racer'. Having a quick look though the forum I noted CIQ 3.1 there was problems possibly just for the fenix 6, or maybe it was COQ version causing various issues.

The basic Implementation I would like to do is when the app is running, users may cycle through a map view ( MapTrackView ) and see themselves in the middle with controls available to zoom in / out / pan as per normal.

Question - how does MapTrackView refresh itself. Is it every second or time period or does it only update when opening the view ,.... IE it doesn't actually track dynamically at all?

The advanced implementation would be - when the map page is selected, and if tthe user is steering to a waypoint or on a route:

The MapTrackView will also display a polyline , lat / long from an array of waypoints or a single 'active' waypoint from the array.

Question - I also noted an issue previously mentioned about drawings causing the background map disappear.

Question - is there a way for me to change the zoom the map on initialization using a polyline coordinate? To make the display contain the other end of the polyline aswell as current position?

Sorry if this has been addressed already, just noticed a few posts from 2-3 years ago that look open ended.

Nick

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

Do you have a device with maps? What you see in the sim is a bit different and a bit difficult if you can't see things on a real device.

With MapTrackView and an app with GPS on, your track shows without doing a polyline. The map is centered on your current location.

See setMapVisibleArea() as far as setting the scale (upper left, lower right)

Nick over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Yeah I have the fenix 6 but the app is compatible currently with about 70 watches, and I won't put maps in if compatibility is going to cause an issue.

The polyline was not to show where I've been or where I'm going, but in my app I have my own navigation software and waypoints that users input into my app... so I would like to draw a polyline on the map representing current position to the waypoint selected in my app..... or several polylines going around an entire route. Is that type of functionality possible with the poly lines on MapTrackView?

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Nick

With jungles, you can build with or withot maps based on the device, I do that in Hike2.

Have you looked through this?

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/connect-iq-faq/how-do-i-use-a-mapview/#howdoiuseamapview

Nick over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks for that, no I had only been reading the API docs

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Nick

There's also the map sample in the SDK

Nick over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Yep - I have that one