67i, waypoint, send
67i, waypoint, send
See Sending and Receiving Data Wirelessly in the GPSMAP 67i owner's manual.
I see,,,but no way of sending a projected waypoint to another inreach device over satellite. Like a person is going to send you coordinates to meet up at in an hour or,,,
You can send your current location via iR messaging. The only way (that I know of) to send a projected location, or the location of a waypoint, or whatever is to manually transcribe the coordinates to the message text.
I think I have another idea how to make this complicated pager work!
Bear with me, if there is a better way let me know!!!
1. Drop a waypoint where you and your group might want to meet.
2. Take a picture of the coordinates.
3. Pull picture out of pictures and copy coordinates
4. Paste in messages on explorer and sync between your phone and inreach.
5. Forward to group or single inreach device.
6. currently waiting(verify) to see if this currently works.
A. You might ask why? Copy and paste basically,,,there is no fat fingering the numbers. You would have sent the correct lat.&long.
one thing I found out, the N123456 has to have no space between the N and numbers.
I have tried different ways in getting a waypoint to another 67i and really it still has to be entered manually in the end!
Please add this request to Garmin feature-request page (Share Ideas | Garmin).
Previous comments involving copying waypoint coordinates, then keying them into a message will work but is an unnecessarily clunky way to coordinate rally points. I've submitted a request a few times for the ability to forward a waypoint as InReach message to no effect so far. The whole waypoint along with name, icon, notes (e.g. rally time) and coordinates should be InReach forwardable.
Similarly, InReach devices should be able to ping one another for location. That's another of my requests. As it is, pinging an InReach device can only be done by someone with access to the Internet. Not only is that inconvenient. It could easily delay rescue.
InReach devices should be able to ping one another for location.
yes, but!
when you ping some other device, the device will be charged for the traffic caused by this ping or what ever.
This is therefore not implemented, as everybody could ping any other devices thus causing traffic for them. Furthermore, who is getting your personal, probably not public data just so easy? Tracking someone without authorization?
not very pleasant idea
skyeye, you're behind the times. The ability for anyone to ping an InReach device is already implemented for anyone with access to the Internet and who knows the user's MapShare URL. The only one who cannot ping the location is someone with another InReach who's also in the backcountry beyond the reach of the Internet, e.g. the search and rescue team trying to find an unconscious person whose InReach would show exactly where he is. The feature is a user option in MapShare. An InReach user doesn't have to allow people to ping his location. But if he does allow it, I don't see any reason for not allowing his location to be pinged by another InReach user who knows the other user's InReach-to-InReach address. As it is now, an InReach user who wants to know where a companion is has to send a message to someone with Internet access, have that person ping the location, then send the location back as text coordinates, that the user can carefully use to create a waypoint that will then show the location. A lot of wasted time and effort compared to an option to ping the location directly from an InReach device.
well you know the settings in the mapshare is here for that purpose! The owner hast to allow it or not. He knows then that he will get additional costs from that. He know to whom he granted the access and how he did protect it.
So far there is no way that someone can ping a device without being authorized by the owner of that device. This can be done by allowing this by mapshare explicitly and the one who wants ping, needs to have permission, e.g. know the password for that.
So yes, there is no way to do it just without permission of the owner.
There is simply no way, anybody with or without internet connection can get on your data just by himself. You can not get access to the website unless the owner explicitly allowed you to do so. You can not get access to mapshare unless the owner granted permission.
This is obvious data protection, it can not be, that someone just can get your personal data without you explicitly grant the permission.
If there would be free access to tracking data, the whole IR system would be illegal in most countries today.
And yes, we are on the same problem as why can not I send a message to any IR devices on my own. I have to have permission from the owner to do so. Imagine what level of spam it could create if anybody could send anything to other devices. This must be avoided under any circumstances.
That's all true, skyeye, but I don't see what it has to do with my suggestion that the capability now allowed to someone with Internet access be extended to IR devices beyond the reach of the Internet.
I see nothing in your post that argues against that. And I can think of lots of reasons to add that capability to the InReach system for speed in an emergency, rally point progress, supervision of dispersed teams (e.g. wildfire suppression), general convenience or just locating an IR device that got knocked off a pack along the trail.
If I understand your objection, you think IR device users would lose some control over who could ping their locations. I don't see how, and nothing in your post supports that.
Garmin would not need to change anything but IR device firmware. The necessary options are already on the MapShare tab of the Explore site.
If users who allow MapShare pinging of their location and limit access to that with a MapShare password, wanted to limit who could ping them from an IR device, they could simply use the password as their IR-to-IR address.
If there is some drawback to allowing IR-to-IR location pinging that I've overlooked, please explain it.