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How do you get your current location from Browse Map?

I just bought a Garmin Edge 1030.  I know a rough idea of where I like to ride, but sometimes I want to pull the map up and have it center on where I am to confirm a ln upcoming street.  I don’t see a way under Navigation > Browse Map to have it “go to my current location” or “re-center”.  Do I have to be navigating a route to have the map on my current location?   For example, I came across a ripped up road that’s in the process of being re-paved, and wanted to look at what was around me easily.  The browse map was sitting on my home.

Thanks in advance, gurus!

  • The map is always centered on your current location (assuming you have gps reception).

  • Multiple rides, and mine never centers on my current location… gps reception doesn’t seem to be an issue if I ask to navigate to a point I have saved.  Only when I’m doing a non-navigated ride and choose browse map does it seem to be an issue.

  • Just go to the map page. Don’t browse it. 

    You can pan and zoom the map on the map page. 

  • Right. I go to the Home Screen, and click “Browse Map”, and my home street shows up on the map when I’m 10-15 miles from home.  I know I can zoom out and find myself, but clearly the device knows where I am.  If I pull my phone out,  Google maps has a “re-center” button where I don’t have to pan around to find myself.  That “center on me” functionality does not seem to be working as you had described.  The only buttons are “zoom in”, “zoom out”, and “the back arrow” from the map.  That isn’t all that useful, imo, when I’m in the middle of a climb and tap browse map to see what street is approaching and I have to pan the map.  I suppose I’m trying to understand if that’s a limitation of “Browse map” or if my device isn’t calibrating like it should.

  • Additionally, I don’t know what “map page” you’re suggesting versus the “browse map” option from the Home Screen > Navigation sequence.  Can you please elaborate?

  • Pick a profile (like Road).

    Swipe your finger left or right to change the page being displayed. One of those pages displays a map. That map is centered on your current location. As you ride, I think it will show the upcoming cross street (or it shows the street you are on).

  • That’s exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks!  I went out and did a ride today and tried it out, thus my delayed response.  Appreciate that assist