Gaia GPS user Johnny4Runner posted his OHV track on Everytrail, with pictures and stats from the Prosser Hills OHV area. Looks like a beautiful area to explore, located near Lake Tahoe, California:
http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1896673&code=43095be2c8f35ccd9d8dbec5ac5efa8f
Here’s an excellent review from BackcountryRebels.com:
“Gaia GPS, by far the best GPS app IMO. Maps are free world wide, simply grab an area before you head out, it downloads to your phone, no need for cell service.
You can save an unlimited amount of tracks, show multiple tracks at once in different colors, export them and email them so you can view them in Google Earth.
I use it on EVERY ride, battery lasts all day no problem, just disable cellular data/wifi/bluetooth to increase your batt life while riding.
You can also do track back, place markers with notes, take pictures and it will use the GPS data to place them on the map, etc. Very easy to use as well. My dad had a Garmin 60csx, this app honestly works better (it’s easier to use).
Oh yeah, it’s only $10, works on IOS or Android.“
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves!
http://backcountryrebels.com/showthread.php?p=840664
Here’s an honorable mention from a Gaia user on the HuntingPA.com forum:
“For those younger tech using, iPhone owning bear hunters, there is a great app called Gaia Gps. This app will track your movements, you can plot points, navigate to them, record pictures at specific locations, etc, etc. it’s great. Check it out of your looking for an option to help with navigation.”
We have now had multiple reports from users that their external GPS devices (such as the Dual XGPS150 and Bad Elf) fail to connect with apps under iOS6. This includes Gaia GPS and any other GPS apps.
If you are having this issue, please see this blog post by another app developer that outlines steps to fix the bug with external GPS devices under iOS6. Our users tell us this corrects the issue for them. Quote from the blog:
Gaia GPS v7.1 is now live on the App Store. The new version of Gaia includes integration with Theodolite, the ability to create URLs that will open Gaia GPS to a given location (gaiagps://map?lat=37.8354&lng=-122.0828&z=14 – tap on your iPhone/iPad to open Gaia), and various bug fixes.
In addition, we have introduced a new premium subscription called Gaia Green. The Green add-on gives you access to layered map downloads, grid overlays, datum-shifting, and premium user support – see the Gaia Green option in Settings for video descriptions of the features.
We are already working on Gaia GPS 7.2 as well, which we think will surprise and delight!
A couple months ago, we stood up a clone of the open source New York Public Library (NYPL) Map Warper site, for use in our app Gaia GPS. However, we don’t have any Ruby skills in-house, and we need some help fixing and improving the site.
For this gig, you will be paid on contract, and your work will remain open source. We will under no circumstances close any improvements we make to the warper.
You can view the warper here: warper.gaiagps.com
You can download the source code here: github.com/trailbehind/Gaia-Map-Warper
For the main things we want to fix, you don’t need any GIS/map knowledge – you can probably observe some of these bugs just by looking at the warper site. However, if you are also good with maps, we will likely ask you to make more interesting improvements to the warper. Extra bonus points if you are good with sysadmin and deployment on Amazon EC2, but this is also not a requirement.
If you are interested in this gig, please send me an email at andrew@gaiagps.com
If you need a handy man in Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, or anywhere else in the Bay Area, I recommend my neighbor Oscar Ramirez. He’s done all sorts of work for me, from painting, to installing a doggie door, to hanging white boards at our new offices.
He is super-friendly, competent, and doesn’t charge an arm and a leg. He thinks things through and comes up with the right solution, and the work is high-quality and lasting. What more do you want?
Gaia GPS and Offline Topo Maps have a temporary issue for people upgrading from iOS5->iOS6.
None of your data has been lost, but when you update your operating system, the apps misplace your tracks and maps. This is because we have a bit of fragile code, and it broke when Apple changed a “hash” function in iOS6.
To address this issue:
Our update should be approved sometime next week. Unfortunately, we had a big release in review, but we found this bug and had to pull it. We imagine it will take Apple 2-10 days to approve our update.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. While we had been working with the new iOS6 developer kit, we totally missed this issue. As a result, we are trying to determine how to improve our QA process around operating system updates.
This blog post should tell you all you need to know about iBurn 2012. Thanks to everyone who helped make the app happen this year, especially new iBurner David Brodsky, who made a full-fledged Android version. iBurn has a lot of community support this year!