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New Year’s Web Update – Mass File, Delete, and Sync

by Aileen January 13, 2016

written by Aileen

Kicking off our web updates for 2016, we shipped a redesign for your data lists on gaiagps.com.

You can now mass-select a bunch of items in your saved tracks, waypoints, and other lists and do things like file the selection in folders, toggle the sync status, or delete items.

Also look out for the minor 10.4.2 release for iOS this week. It tweaks a couple of things from our last major (v10.4) release, which included auto-naming for tracks and waypoints, additional language support, a more user friendly map source menu and iPhone Main Menu, and polygons support for GaiaPro users.

This year, our staff and focus has grown, so you’ll see more changes to Gaia GPS and gaiagps.com than any year since we launched in 2009. And of course, we always love to hear from you at support@gaiagps.com.

January 13, 2016

Company News Gaia GPS

Donating to Great Wild Causes

by Aileen December 23, 2015

written by Aileen

This week marks the start of Gaia GPS Giving Back. Check out this page for the full details.

Under this new program, we donate 5% of app purchases made through special affiliate links to wild causes that we feel align with Gaia GPS:

You can increase donations by:

Buying Gaia GPS (and other apps) through these links – 5% of all proceeds gets donated
Posting these links/placards on your blog or website

Donate

We’ve done pro bono work in the past, such as for the Haitian Earthquake and to support volunteer workers. But today marks the first time Gaia GPS will commit to giving money directly to good causes.

Choose between two organizations actively working to preserve and protect the outdoors:
Leave No Trace, in its simplest form, is about making good decisions to protect the world around you. Through relevant and targeted education, research and outreach, the Center ensures the long-term health of our natural world. Leave No Trace is built on seven core principles, developed to help educate and guide recreationists in sustainable minimum impact practices that mitigate or avoid recreation-related impacts.

Plan Ahead and Prepare
Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
Dispose of Waste Properly
Leave What You Find
Minimize Campfire Impacts
Respect Wildlife
Be Considerate of Other Visitors

Learn more at: https://lnt.org/learn/seven-principles-overview

ASC matches scientists with skilled explorers to collect data while out in the field. With this unique opportunity, researchers are able to push forward necessary conservation efforts , with valuable information provided by adventurers. Check out one of their recent projects monitoring the Unita Range for Canada lynx and wolverine, two of the Rocky Mountains most elusive and rare carnivores. For this project Gaia GPS was used to navigate to remote off-trail wildlife cameras. http://www.adventurescience.org/uinta-carnivore-survey.html

December 23, 2015

Company News Gaia GPS

Gaia Team Profile: Aashima Talwar

by Staff Reports September 28, 2015

written by Staff Reports

Aashima Talwar joined Gaia GPS as a software engineering intern this summer.

Her main project has been to revise, update, and improve the style of the Gaia Vector Topo Map. This has bridged a wide variety of skills, including writing CartoCSS, working with Postgres, working with Git, and more. Aashima has also spent time learning more about writing Javascript, and developing websites.

Aashima earned her Masters degree in IT from India. She previously worked at Microsoft (Redmond) and AtosOrigin (Singapore) doing mainly database development and provided business intelligence solutions.

She lives in Seattle with her husband and daughter.

September 28, 2015

Adventures Company News Gaia GPS

Four Gaia Babies Last Year

by Ruthie Irvin January 6, 2015

written by Ruthie Irvin

In 2014, the Gaia GPS team changed quite a bit. More people joined the company last year than were previously on the team! Co-founders Anna and Andrew, and software engineer Jesse, welcomed an additional software engineer, Josh B., and a whole new support staff, Josh S., Dave, and me, Ruthie.

As exciting as it is that our staff and user-base are growing, we’re most excited to share that in addition to the employee increase, Gaia GPS experienced a population increase as well: Four Gaia Babies!

Anna and Andrew welcomed their second child, Calliope, in April. Then, for three months at the end of the year, we had a cascade of new babies. Jesse’s first child, Elkin, joined the world in September, Josh B. became a father for the second time to Elaine in October, and I had Hazel, my first baby, Calliope’s 10th cousin, in November.

In the order they were introduced, here are our Four Gaia Babies:

We hope they love the woods as much as we do!

January 6, 2015