MapShare issues

5941231 13 days ago

My Gpsmap 66i stopped uploading tracks (in fact all data) to MapShare. I have reset the device several times and verified all settings in Garmin Explore. My subscription is active. The device Bluetooth and Wi-Fi settings are turned off to save power.

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Garmin-Chris 10 days ago +1 verified

In order for tracking points to appear on the MapShare page, tracking must be started from your GPSMAP 66i. For more information, see Starting and Stopping Tracking on the GPSMAP 66i/67i/86i/86sci

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0 twolpert 10 days ago

If you turned off BT, it cannot sync with apps like Explore. If you turned off WiFi, it cannot sync when connected to local WiFi. The best you could hope for would be seeing sent track points and/or messages whose addressees explicitly included MapShare.

Does that describe your symptoms? Or something else?

Did this work as you expected before you disabled BT and WiFi?

+1 Garmin-Chris 10 days ago

In order for tracking points to appear on the MapShare page, tracking must be started from your GPSMAP 66i. For more information, see Starting and Stopping Tracking on the GPSMAP 66i/67i/86i/86sci

0 5941231 9 days ago in reply to twolpert

The MapShare functionality stopped working this summer. For the last five years it worked OK. I have the Wifi/BT turned off because there is no cellular service in the back country and I don't bring my phone with me - this is why I have a Garmin GPS. The 10-minute tracking interval and the uploaded data is not displaying in MapShare. Satellite messaging works fine.

0 5941231 9 days ago in reply to Garmin-Chris

Yes I am aware of this functionality/procedure. It stopped working this summer after five years without an issue. Satellite messaging works fine, with the included location data. For whatever reason MapShare is busted.