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MapShare shows a lot of Activities done early

Bodya
over 4 years ago

Hi,

I am still new for iR mini.

Yesterday I recognised MapShare (it is what available via link share.garmin.com/[userSelectedName]) displays a lot (hundreds) activities done by me early (prior I have purchased iR mini).

I think it can be wrong to share with friends and family (or even public) so cluttered map, also this mess can distract attention from what is real important.

I guess it happened cos during setup process for iR mini by default was assigned Library collection for data. Also I assume Library is a general collection for all devices and for everything what you did, doing or plan to do on Garmin platform? Isn't it?

Questions:

 - do you have the same experience?

 - correct me if I am wrong with my assumptions above, please!

 - is it safe to assign as default collection for iR mini some empty collection and hide Library for MapShare?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    There is a known problem with activities. They are not subject to date filtering on any of the map pages. This is different from tracks, which do filter by date. Until this is fixed, your only alternative is to either hide all activities (from the Library itself, click the eyeball icon for Activities so that it shows the eyeball with slash) or hide the collections containing the activities so that they do not show on MapShare. You CAN hide the Library from Mapshare, but you must do it from the Filter MapShare Data button on the Social tab for your account at explore.garmin.com.

    Your account/MapShare page shows data for all devices registered to that account. If you have only one Garmin account, then yes - it's all the data for all your devices. If you have more than one Garmin account, it's only for the devices on that particular account.

    As far as I know, the Mini does not generate activities. It only generates tracks. This is because the Mini is a transitional device - part legacy DeLorme and part current Garmin.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to twolpert

    ok, your detailed explanation is very similar to what I have found via my experiments.

    Small corrections to your suggestions: hide all activities for Library is working for myself (when I am loged in to https://explore.garmin.com as Garmin user), but didn't work for share.garmin.com/[userMapName]. To hide whole Library is not a solution as all what you want to share will be hidden for visitors.

    As result I set followings:

     - created three collections: "iR Active" (set as Active for Plan & Devices - Collections), "iR Storage" - to keep planned routes. These two "iR Active" and "iR Storage" are visible for MapShare (Social - MapShare - Filter MapShare Data (tick checkboxes). Third one created collection is "iR Hidden" to keeps my private waypoint or/and routes, and obviously it is hidden for MapShare. 

     - hide Library for Social - MapShare - Filter MapShare Data (untick checkbox) 

     - all three collections  "iR Active", "iR Storage", "iR Hidden" are flagged to be synced with iR Mini (Plan & Devices - Collections - Synced Collections - tick checkboxes)

    Then sync with iR Mini device was performed. Now, I can manage what to keep on device, and what to show for others on share.garmin.com/[userMapName] without unnecessary uncovering too much.

    Please comment, is listed above a good solution?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Bodya

    You are doing what I meant to suggest with regard to the library - filter it out of MapShare. 

    The rest of it is up to you. The only thing you might need to watch for is collection growth over time. If you continue to add things to a collection (iR Storage, for example), eventually the collection will become too large to sync.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to twolpert

    In the case collection is too large to sync what can happen? How to know it?