Getting a map onto your watch (and other devices)

To get a HIKEPLAN map onto your watch, you'll need to:

1. Prepare the map

Any map has to be "packaged" before it'll work on your watch. This is done from within the map itself.

Find the "Preload" button on the map. It opens a panel where you can prepare the map you need and find maps you've already prepared.

Selecting an area

The first thing to do is mark out the area on the map you want to transfer to your watch. You do this by clicking on the map — drop points to trace the outline you need.

You can store up to 3 maps at a time.

There's a size limit on the area. In a single selection, you can't choose an area covering more than 6000 map segments. (The map is made up of square pieces — segments.)

Don't try to download the entire map "just in case." Maps are updated often and go out of date. And loading a map onto your watch isn't the fastest process.

The satellite layer is limited to a 200m scale and is only available to PRO subscribers.

Scales larger than 200m are only available to PRO subscribers.

Creating a preload

Once you've selected your area, double-check that:

• you've picked the right map style (dark, light, satellite)

• you've selected the correct device model you're creating the map for

If everything's right, hit "Create" — you'll then join the queue for your map. You can track the download progress and your place in the queue from the "Preload" panel.

Your map will be given an automatically generated name, something like "Rainy Mountain." This is just to make it easy to identify the map on your device.

2. Load the map onto your watch

On the watch, go to the "Downloads" section, find your map, open it, start the download, and just wait. A 50MB map takes roughly 20 minutes to load onto the watch.

While the download is running, make sure to:

1. not share your phone's internet connection (tethering/hotspot)

2. not tie up your phone's Bluetooth with anything other than the connection to your watch

Once the map is on your watch, you can delete the preload on the website — you won't need it anymore.

If the map doesn't show up on your watch, make sure you've got the latest watch OS installed (newer than 4.9.4.4).

If the OS update isn't showing in the Zepp app, update Zepp first, then the watch.

If the map still isn't visible, go into the map settings and turn on the display style you want. By default, the Topo (light) style is shown.