We’re delighted to announce a big expansion in the Gaia GPS team. Five new people joined over the course of this spring, including two software engineers, two user support reps, and a marketing writer. Navigate to the company page to read their bios and learn more. Andy Crampton Android Dev Angela Crampton Marketing Chris Hill… Read More »
We’re hiring a part-timer to test new releases of Gaia GPS. For this role, you must be an experienced Gaia GPS user, and you can work from anywhere. Perks and Pay $15/hour to start – number of hours varies depending on what devices you already have, you’ll be given iPhones, iPads, Android, and perhaps… Read More »
As of April 1, 2016, Trimble Outdoors has cancelled all mobile apps, including the MyTopo hiking app, the Cabelas hunting app, and all other titles. According to their support page, the apps have been removed from the App Store, and users will have some time to keep using the maps and back-end services. We welcome… Read More »
Gaia 10.3.2 for iOS improves compatibility with iOS 9, drops iOS6, and fixes a few bugs. Check out the release notes here, also included in the app when you get the update. On updates.gaiagps.com, you can always check out release notes for the Gaia GPS for iOS, and Gaia GPS for Android. You might notice that… Read More »
Zach first came to Gaia GPS as the primary Adventure Support staffer in early 2014, but more recently switched over to working with the engineering team, doing QA on app releases. Zach wanders around Texas testing Gaia GPS, and also creates and executes manual test plans. Zach’s work is a key step in the QA… Read More »
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… Read More »
We’ve been remiss in introducing everyone over the years, so we’re doing short profiles on the folks at Gaia GPS. We introduced Aileen Gardner last week, and going chronologically backwards in time, we’re featuring Ashli Baldwin today. Ashli brings serious outdoor cred to the Gaia team, having recently thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. She spends her weekends outdoors… Read More »
Since we launched the Gaia GPS Trail Finder 3 weeks ago, people have plotted a zillion trails, all over creation. This has given us the chance to talk to users about their experiences, improve the docs, observe log files, and squash bugs. Elevation Data Improved When we first launched, there was a bug that prevented most… Read More »
Last week I spent more than a day sorting, merging, closing, and clarifying all of the ideas ever posted for Gaia GPS. It now takes about 10 minutes to scan the remaining 200 ideas, and there used to be more than 700: 160 ideas for iOS 40 ideas for Android All the spam is gone, similar… Read More »
About half of the people who use Gaia GPS enable the free data sync in the app. We used to call this service “GaiaCloud,” but now we just say the app lets you “sync with gaiagps.com.” This blog post will tell you why and how to sync. You should sync, because syncing lets you: Automatically… Read More »
