The satellite imagery works better than Birdseye - even though it pretty much looks the same, the watch does a better job of rendering it quickly, and it also is viewable at ALL zoom levels! Classic birdseye imagery only showed up at certain zoom levels, and was often slow to render.The plan can only be used by one compatible Garmin device but can be transferred to other Garmin devices.For the most part, it always fails when I select a region at larger than 3-mile map scale. As far as I can tell, there's no way to know how big of a region you can download until you get a "map size limit exceeded" error.
Sometimes I can download like 100 square miles at once, other times it won't let me download more than 9 square miles.
You must have touchscreen turned on in order to change the region location/size you want to download.Unfortunately, the watch is currently the ONLY place to download Maps+ stuff, there is no integration with Garmin Express, Connect, or anything else yet. You can download everything (including the satellite imagery) directly from the Map Manager app on the watch! No need for clunky Basecamp software.You can toggle layers on and off in each activity's settings.You can decide which layers you want at the time of download, so you can omit certain unneeded layers to reduce the download and storage size.The maps can be downloaded with up to 6 different layer types, with things such as private land boundaries, satellite imagery (similar to the now-defunct Birdseye Imagery), and other advanced layer types.No idea if Garmin plans to roll out other countries / regions in the future, or when that might be, but currently if you are not in the US, or don't spend any time in the US, then you can ignore this thread and the new Maps + feature. I've already purchased a Maps+ subscription ($50/year), and played with it a little. My plan is to keep this OP updated with new information as we learn more. This thread is about the new Maps + feature available for the Fenix 7 / Epix 2 series.
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