Showing and Hiding Items on the Garmin Explore Website Map

The Garmin Explore™ website map page has many controls for filtering or toggling item visibility from the map itself. This can be helpful for showing or hiding specific items to declutter the map.

Toggle Visibility for Items on the Map

The Garmin Explore website map features the ability to toggle visibility of certain categories and collections within the Library.

• to the right of the category or Collection name indicates those items are currently toggled on and showing.
• to the right of the category or Collection name indicates those items are currently toggled off and hidden.

There is a hierarchy with the Library and Collections for toggling item visibility. All data items are stored in the Library and then further organized into Collections. The Library section contains all of your Waypoints, Tracks, Routes, Activities, and Courses. If a category is set to then all items in that category will be hidden, even if some of the items are in a Collection that is set to . This is because the visibility toggle for Library categories takes precedence over the visibility toggle for Collections. See the examples below for more information.

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Examples of Toggling Item Visibility

Example 1

In the below image, the Waypoints category in the library is set to . These waypoints are stored in the Library and further organized into the Sent to MapShare™ collection which is set to .

 

Result: All waypoints are now hidden from the map. The waypoints that are in the Sent to MapShare Collection are hidden from the map with this setting because the visibility toggle for the waypoints category in the Library takes precedence over the Sent to MapShare visibility toggle.

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Example 2

In the next image below, the Sent to MapShare Collection is set to and the Waypoints category in the Library is set to .

 

Result: Only the waypoints in the Sent to MapShare Collection are now hidden from the map. Any other waypoints not in the Sent to MapShare Collection are still showing on the map because the waypoints category in the Library is still set to show on the map.

NOTE: If the item you are trying to hide is in multiple Collections, all Collections containing that item need to be hidden.

Toggle Track Visibility: 

By default, all tracks are set to appear on the map tab of the Garmin Explore website. If your track summary appears in the library, but does not appear on the map when selected, you may need to toggle the visibility on.

1. Select  to center the map on the user.
2. Select  so that the track expands.

Once this is done, the icon should now be .

Using the Map Filters

The Map Filters allow for showing or hiding specific message types. These filters also allow for filtering tracks and message types by date and time ranges.

Message Types That Can Be Hidden or Shown

• Locate: Location requests.

• Messages: Messages sent from the inReach®.

• Track Points: Track points sent from the inReach.

• Navigation: Navigation to a waypoint.

• Reference Points: Reference point locations sent from an inReach SE®+/Explorer®+.

• MapShare: MapShare link messages sent from the inReach.

Date And Time Range Filter Options

NOTE: The Date and Time range filters only filter tracks and the Message Types referenced above.

• All Time: Shows all tracks.

• Currently Tracking: Shows only the current track.

• Most Recent Track: Shows only the most recent track.

• Last 24 Hours: Shows only the last 24 hours of tracks.

• Last 7 Days: Shows only the last 7 days of tracks.

• Custom Date Range: Allows for entering a specific date and time range for filtering tracks.

Items Not Affected By the Date And Time Range Filter

• Waypoints.

• Routes.

• Activities.

• Courses.