Individual Device Syncing (Different Downloaded Content On Specific Devices)
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Having the ability to specify which content (areas, maps, routes, waypoints, etc.) automatically syncs/downloads to which devices would be a great feature! This would be specifically for GaiaPro.
I use my iPhone for hiking and running related activities, and I use my iPad for navigating in vehicles (both are used for Search & Rescue). There is no need for large vehicle-related maps to take up valuable space on my iPhone (and vice versa), while there is no need for certain waypoints or routes to be on my iPad (amongst other examples). I would like to independently designate which content syncs to certain devices. This could all be controlled via gaiagps.com. Each activated device would be available for syncing.
The attached mock-up may be a possible solution of how this could work.
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Official comment
Hey all,
We don't have plans to implement this feature quite like how nwAdamR designed it. But we do have a feature that will give you the ability to choose which maps are on which device.
It's the auto-resume feature. Technically, disabling it.
I realized we didn't have an article that talked specifically about it so I wrote this up.
This post will still stand as a feature request for individual device syncing from the website.
If you have any questions or issues, reach out via the Help widget in the corner.Comment actions -
This would be a really helpful enhancement. I do all my route planning on an iPad, and have lots of maps downloaded there for offline use, but I don't want to waste valuable space on my iPhone by having all these maps also force downloaded on the phone. Selective map sync would be a great enhancement.
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I’m a brand new user, and so far I love this app.
BUT while I already have 24 gb of maps stored on my iPad Mini for overland navigation, I definitely do not want all that data syncced to my phone. When I launched the iPhone app I was appalled to see everything start to download.
That is a stupid default setting!
I need to be able to choose a much more limited map set for the phone, for local hiking.
Please bring us the requested Selective Sync feature. Thanks.
JD Spokane WA
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This is critical for me as well. Downloads should NOT be synced across devices. It could be implemented simply - just limit downloads to the device that originated them - but the idea the original poster had is excellent too; checkboxes for which device should get a map would be great.
I have begun using Gaia GPS more regularly recently, creating routes and tracks, and I decided to get a dedicated tablet for the purpose of navigation while driving offroad. I bought a tablet with ample storage to download maps ahead of time, and not have to delete them after each trip to free up space - I also like to head out and try different trails on the fly,and so keeping the maps for an area available on the device is important to me.Downloading all those maps to the tablet worked perfectly, until I picked up my phone and was dismayed to see it downloading all the same maps onto it. That''s not at all what was intended nor is it helpful.
Then, when I was able to delete the maps from the phone, I saw they had also been deleted from the tablet, which makes the whole idea of the tablet unworkable in the current case.
The only course I can see is to delete Gaia GPS from my phone, which is not a helpful solution when it has its own uses, different from the tablet. I want to be able to use each, for different purposes, and right now these are at odds.
Almost three years from the original request, and no response from Gaia GPS? Let's get this one done. -
Definitely need these sync improvements. Included with this feature should be the ability to select wifi-only / cellular sync. When choosing to sync maps to my device, I only want them to sync when connected to wifi. However, I want waypoints, tracks, routes, folders, etc to sync with both wifi/cellular.
There is only a global setting for this today. Im worried to leave it on and accidentally burn through my cellular data or turn it off and have forgotten to manually download my maps.
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I'm also using a dedicated tablet in my vehicle that I want to load a large region to, and don't want my smartphone to even try to download the same area.
I like to use the tablet to load the mountain range I'll be staying in, usually with a few different layers. Then the phone is just basic maps to track my hiking. If I get curious and want to goto a new trail I know I have that area on my tablet. Or I can use the tablet for pre-planning at base camp then use the phone for simple hike tracking later.
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Adding yet another, hopefully not pointless, voice to this discussion. Offline map management really sucks in Gaia GPS and is pushing me to investigate other options as much as I love the other features of Gaia GPS. I have been struggling along with the Auto-Resume Map Download feature, but then it managed to bite me in the ass. I had a set of maps on two devices, iPhone and iPad. I wished to delete the maps from my iPhone to free up some space, and even with auto-resume turned off on both devices it deleted the maps from my iPad as soon as it sync'ed Ugh. At this point I would even appreciate a way to completely turn off sync'ing for maps, while leaving sync'ing on for everything else.
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+1 for choosing which data components are synced to which devices.
The centralized web control/sync is a huge part of why I use Gaia and signed up for the subscription.
Being able to log into the website and twiddle a couple of dropdowns to add (or remove) maps, etc between devices would be huge.
I have a standard set of maps that I download to the tablets but not enough storage on the phone for all of them. So I would love to log into the website before each trip and add the new area with a simple drop-down, and remove the one I visited last without having to delete it from the phone and have that deletion sync up to the cloud and pull it off of the other devices against my wishes. -
This issue is still not resolved. I continue to find maps being downloaded to a device which has "Auto-resume" disabled.
See the screenshots below, from the device I do not want maps downloaded to.
EDIT: Couldn't edit images to display any other way than obnoxiously large, so I added the three images to an album here: https://imgur.com/a/zeGxk1K -
Just got the app a week ago, and I can only echo all of the above comments in this thread. Seems this has been asked for for 4 years now. The "auto-resume disable" doesn't really address this, or at best is an extremely time-consuming and clunky work-around. I love the app so far, BUT enabling web-based control of what maps are on specific devices would, again, be a huge improvement. As a semi-digital-illiterate product of the last millenium, I have no idea what would be required to add this capability, but sure would be nice! For those who have read this far, I have dealt with the issue by sticking 256 gig SD cards in both phone and tablet (Android both), and setting them as my "root directory," so that they are supposed to serve as storage for downloads (but not the app itself). We'll see how this works in the field...
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This is still an unresolved issue all these years later. I still can't open Gaia GPS on my phone, because even with the Auto-resume Downloads option de-selected, it still, invariably, every time, even on a new (completely different) device, will always begin downloading every map that any other device has in its list.
Please address this issue with a code change (or make the "auto-resume" option work).
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