Hello all! Having fun with my new 5s plus and heading off to the mountains (Lake district) in a day or two. I have what I hope is an easy question. I have the European version with the built in map and have also installed the talkytoaster UK paid for version, which I like very much so far. My question is about named geographic features. When I zoom around the map with either version to, say, a Lake District peak, when I am in the Garmin version or the Talkytoaster version I see the icons for a mountain on the map, but no name. Is there an easy way to get the map to show the name on the map, or alternatively to select it in some way to view the name?
It'll only show what's on the map. Contact talkytoaster to see if they're included. Personally I wouldn't pay for any OSM map, there are plenty of free ones out there.
I'm happy to use other maps too, sure. Do you know of a free one that shows contours and named geographic features like mountain summits? I've been looking but not quite found the right option yet in a garmin format?
Openfiets map is one. Incidentally the free talkytoaster map will show the summit name if you hover the map pointer over the icon, maybe the paid one does that too if it helps?
Thanks - much appreciated. Do you mean hover the map pointer on the watch or the desktop version? On the watch I am only seeing mountain icons even zoomed in and centered, so maybe I am just failing to understand how to use the maps on the watch properly!
Ah Ok, I have it now after the kind help of the Talkytoaster guy. On the 5x, and 5 plus watches if you want to see what an icon is you need to go into pan and zoom mode and put it in the cross hairs and press and hold the top right hand button (which on the 5s plus normally toggles modes with a single press). Not sure I would ever have guessed about press and hold without someone telling me! Anyway yes I can now see named mountain summits etc, which makes my impending mountain trip tomorrow happier. Thanks for your help.
Oh and I see you are quite right, at decent levels of zoom the openfietsmap for the UK does indeed show named summits. Hmm. Think I'll take both for a test hike later this week!
