Explore / MapShare 'point' that cannot be account for.. nor deleted

I started playing around with the Garmin Explore website and app a while ago, syncing with my fenix 5 Plus. I've since connected a GPSMAP 66i to the account, however this does not yet have an active InReach subscription and in any event this problem predates this. To reiterate: no InReach service has ever been active on my account.

Looking at both the Explore and MapShare websites, I see an icon with my name around half an hour away from my house / current location, complete with a date/time/ It's a location known to me (near a friends house) although I definitely haven't been either at the date/time stated or at all recently. The only thing I might have done possibly is planned a route to/from there, maybe created a waypoint (for my friends house), or had a previous track that sync staring/finishing there. In other words, not a completely random location but certainly not a location I'm either at or have been at recently.

I presume this icon is supposed to represent my location when InReach tracking is enabled. So where has it come from? Why is it still there? Why can I get rid of it?

Looking at the Explore website it does not correspond to anything in my library (I've even cleared everything down to make sure). Toggling the +/- button next to the icon itself has the effect of showing hiding all of my tracks on the map page.

Looking at the MapShare website is similar, with perhaps one further clue - under "Message Filters" > "Message Types" if I toggle "Track Points" this causes the icon presumably representing my position to disappear/reappear. But again, I've never had an InReach subscription, so how has this got here and how can I get rid of it?

TIA

0 twolpert over 3 years ago

That blue triangle is the "head pointer". It represents the last known (or current-ish) location for the device with which it is associated. It's unusual to have anything other than an iR device associated with the account. The actual location shown probably came from something on the watch, but it is hard to say.

The only time I've seen something "stuck" like this is when I've initiated routing using some odd remote location without actually visiting the location. For example, upload a crowd-sourced track for a remote location and attempt to navigate it on the device. In that situation, the head pointer moved to the route (even though I was not there). Nothing I could do would "fix it" until I actually started tracking with the device.

You cannot delete or move the head pointer (except by tracking). If you want to hide it, you can do so by toggling the visibility icon for the USER in the left sidebar of the map page. This hides everything, though, no just the head pointer.

Showing/hiding tracks via the circled plus/minus next to the head pointer is by design.

0 SpikySimonW over 3 years ago in reply to twolpert

twolpert said:
The only time I've seen something "stuck" like this is when I've initiated routing using some odd remote location without actually visiting the location. For example, upload a crowd-sourced track for a remote location and attempt to navigate it on the device. In that situation, the head pointer moved to the route (even though I was not there). Nothing I could do would "fix it" until I actually started tracking with the device.

Ah so this would very likely fit with my experience - I'll have likely planned a route starting from this location. Though I'm not convinced I'd have "initiated" it on a device, especially the only device that was linked to Garmin Explore at that stage, but I can imagine the route would have been at least synced to it.

Tying this in with my other thread, I don't have an InReach subscription at present, but am trying to do the tracking bit with my fenix 5 Plus and the Explore app transmitting the data (unsuccessfully) - tbh the main reason I'm doing this is to try and move this head!!