Steve Goldberg, Author at Gaia GPS

Visitors to GaiaGPS.com will notice a new link in the header: the Maps page. One of the most common requests we receive is for a way to preview our map sources, and that’s exactly what the Maps page lets you do: interactively explore the various maps included with Gaia GPS, right in your web browser.

If you’re thinking of buying Gaia GPS but aren’t sure if it has the maps you need, now you can check them out. Or if you own Gaia GPS but are on the fence about subscribing to Gaia Pro, the Maps page also lets you view the Gaia-Pro-only map sources, including MapBox cloudless satellite and street maps, and the hunting overlays.

And if you’re a happy Gaia GPS user and want to turn your friends and family on to the app, linking to the Maps page is a great way to give them a taste of what Gaia GPS has to offer.

We pushed a few improvements to the Cloud website, focusing on the layout and UI of the gallery page. We actually have two cloud websites now – here is the gallery page for Gaia GPS, and here is the gallery page for Skipper.

This set of changes tightens up the layout of the page, and gets rid of a lot of extraneous white space. We also tweaked the colors a bit to make contrast better for reading. In general, we have a lot more we want to do with this page, but we generally like to make improvements incrementally.

I actually don’t touch the server programming much myself, and I focus on the app side, so I was interested to hear that we can deploy changes to both cloud servers with no additional overhead at all. Which is a relief since we have a third one running for a different app in beta!

Also of note, the Skipper Cloud now uses nautical charts for the main base map.