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Snap-to-Trail Routing and Updated Statistics in Gaia GPS v6.6 for Android

by Ashli Baldwin
written by Ashli Baldwin

Gaia GPS v6.6 for Android introduces Snap-to-Trail routing mode and includes a big improvement to how statistics get calculated for recorded tracks.

Automatically Route Along A Trail

Snap-to-Trail routing lets you plot a route along any trail using OpenStreetMap based maps like Gaia Topo and OpenHikingMap HD.

You can also plan your route using the Snap-to-Trail feature on gaiagps.com and seamlessly sync routes between all of your devices.

Choose between 4 different routing modes: hiking, cycling, driving, and manual. View a live elevation profile as you create your route and change your map layers during routing to help with planning. Easily toggle between Topo and Satellite Imagery, or other map sources.

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Advanced Track Recording Statistics

Improved statistics for track recording gives you more accurate measurements and improves accuracy of statistics on the website, too. To read more about the statistics improvement, read this blog. Please note that statistics in the app may still vary slightly between the Android app and website, but they should be pretty close – the website and app use the same underlying data, but slightly different algorithms right now.

You can read the full release notes here: http://updates.gaiagps.com/android/android_6.6.0.html

Email us at support@gaiagps.com with any questions. If you have a feature request, consider posting your thoughts to the Gaia GPS Community Forums.

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Gaia GPS for Android version 6.5.12

by Ruthie Irvin
written by Ruthie Irvin

Gaia GPS for Android update 6.5.12 adds the ability to import custom map sources directly into the app as an alternative to using the addmapsource page on gaiagps.com.

Create a TileJSON using a TMS map source by following the instructions in this Help Center article. Test out your TMS URL here: http://trailbehind.github.io/TilejsonTester/.

After creating the TileJSON file, Android users can save it to the internal storage or SD card. Navigate the filesystem from within Gaia GPS to import the file, then find the custom map source in the Layers menu when the import completes. Follow the instructions here for importing via the SD card.

—find the custom map source in the Layers menu after import

—find the custom map source in the Layers menu after import

You can also import TileJSON files in the iOS app, or import the TMS source directly to your account on gaiagps.com, then sync back to the app.

Read more about this release and others on the Gaia GPS updates page.

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Gaia GPS for Android Version 6.5

by Ruthie Irvin
written by Ruthie Irvin

In a continued push to increase development on Gaia GPS for Android, version 6.5 boasts a big list of updates. This includes the addition of the NAD-27 datum—a highly requested feature, especially with Emergency Response professionals. You can now toggle between NAD27 and WGS84 directly from the settings menu.

Other important updates include:

    • Multi-layered downloads now create a single download, instead of a separate download for each layer
    • Resuming or deleting a layered download effects all layers concurrently
    • Selecting “Show on map” for a layered download restores the settings from the time of download (ordering and opacity)
  • Improvements to the compass
  • More responsive map arrow and course-up mode when rotating
  • Substantially faster track and route “guide me” features

For a full list of updates and bug fixes, go to http://updates.gaiagps.com/android/android_6.5.0.html

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Call for Android Beta Testers

by Ruthie Irvin
written by Ruthie Irvin

Gaia GPS for Android needs more eyes, and more device types, testing new releases.

Become a beta tester today to help improve the quality of app releases, and set the direction for development.

Android—Off to the Races

If you use Gaia GPS for Android, you likely noticed a flurry of releases over the last couple of months, and you can see the release notes recapped on updates.gaiagps.com. Expect several more updates over the course of the summer, including big new features, maps, and a variety of rough edges shaved off the app.

This quickened pace makes beta testing more important… and other QA activities too. For example, Jason recently added a suite of “unit tests” that help catch more bugs in an automated way.

Gaia Recommended layers category Android

The recent Android releases totally overhauled the Map Sources menu.

Time Commitment for Beta Testers—Little or Lots, Your Choice

You can put just a little time into beta testing and serve the Gaia GPS Android community in a big way.

Simply loading betas and letting logs get pushed to the Gaia dev team helps a lot. And you can make an even larger impact by commenting on releases, and giving feedback and ideas about new features.

How to Join

Follow these instructions to join the program and learn how to give feedback, and send a note to support@gaiagps.com with any questions.

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Gaia GPS Android v6.2

by Ashli Baldwin
written by Ashli Baldwin

Download the new release of Gaia GPS from the Google Play store, or update your device.

We’ve released two consecutive updates to the Android app — version 6.1 and 6.2. Most notably addressed in the updates:

  • Data Deletion – Fixed some tracks and maps not fully deleting
  • Improved in-app support and documentation – Integrated new Zendesk User Manual Platform. Read more about our switch to Zendesk here.
  • Updated language support – Gaia GPS for Android now available in over 10 languages, including Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

We also made tweaks to option to move application root folder and send logs feature.

Gaia GPS Android

Gaia GPS Android

To see full release notes, visit updates.gaiagps.com, or contact support@gaiagps.com with any comments.

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Gaia GPS for Android update – v6.0.3

by Ruthie Irvin
written by Ruthie Irvin

You can download the new release of Gaia GPS Android (v6.03) from the Google play store, or update your device.

Most noticeably, we fixed the lagging display of waypoints/POIs when panning the map. Check out the release notes here for full details, and you can also view release notes in the app.

Send us your comments and bug reports to android@gaiagps.com. If you have any feature ideas to improve the app, submit them to the Idea Forum, and get notified about progress and community comments.

android POIs

POIs and waypoints will show smoothly on the map again.

 

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Public Land Ownership data available in Gaia GPS

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

Check out an updated public lands layer here.

One of the most common requests we get from Gaia GPS users is for Public Land Ownership data, which is useful for hunting, fishing, exploring, and even business purposes. Today, we’re making a land ownership layer available in Gaia GPS.

You can add the public land layer within Gaia GPS by going to “Add More Layers…” This overlay won’t work very well unless you have Gaia GPS Premium, because it needs to be layered with other base maps. You might have some basic use for it as a regular Gaia user.

We consider this to be a “beta” effort, and we’re releasing it to you because it’s useful to us, though incomplete. It has excellent coverage of California, fairly detailed coverage of the rest of western United States, including Alaska, and federal lands in the east. Here’s a summary view of the coverage, and you can also view the layer on gaiagps.com:

Screenshot 2013-10-15 15.31.06

The colors are defined by the following legend, and there is also an entry in the user manual with this info. We’ll integrate it better in the future:

legend

Here’s a screenshot using the layer with GaiaPro, on the iPad. I’m showing the weather panel just for fun, too:

public lands map gaia gps

Gaia GPS premium layers capability really shines here, and you can composite a vast amount of information, including USGS topos, MapBox aerials, Forest Service (USFS) maps, weather overlays, and your personal waypoints and tracks.

Today, our public land data collection efforts are stymied a bit by the shutdown of the US government, but we have plans to complete the data set, and integrate it more fully into Gaia GPS, with an interactive legend and alerts.

This project started out from one of our team’s personal interest in hunting (Jesse), and it’s an ongoing effort. Jesse last lived in Montana, before coming to Berkeley to work with us, and he depended on Elk he hunted for food. As with the rest of Gaia, this comes from the needs of people who spend a lot of time in the woods.

Finally for the technically-minded people. you can also view this GitHub gist for how to set up a tile server like this yourself.

 

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Gaia GPS for Android – Open Beta

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

Today, we’re very happy to announce the Open Beta release of Gaia GPS for Android. You can download it from Google Play now.

Going forward, Google Play will have two versions of Gaia GPS – Beta and normal. Anyone who wants to can participate in beta testing, and the normal version will always get updates when they are finished and fully polished. We plan to update the current “normal” version of Gaia GPS to the new code towards the end of the summer. Most users will probably just want the production version of Gaia, but if you’re eager to check out our new cutting edge stuff, you can get the beta, and help us iron out the bugs.

This release is almost a total rewrite of Gaia – the maps are fast and smooth, and the UI has been overhauled on both phones and tablets. By the time this new app leaves beta, it will be extremely similar to the iOS app.

In the past, we have done all beta testing through private distribution. We are releasing a beta version on the Market because:

  • it’s much easier to manage adding new testers
  • we think we’ll get an order of magnitude more eyeballs on it
  • we noticed larger apps like Chrome do it this way
  • we’re eager to get the new release out, but can’t overwrite the old one until it’s fully cooked

Any feedback is much appreciated!

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iBurn for Android will be Ready When Gates Open

by Staff Reports
written by Staff Reports

Update, 4:43pm, Monday: We are almost done and hope to get it out by tomorrow. It ended up being trickier than we expected.

Update, 11:34pm, Sunday: Still working on it :/

Folks keep emailing and asking if we are going to update the Android iBurn app this year, since the iOS app went live yesterday. The answer is almost certainly yes – we will try and at least have the app as it was last year, showing the map, and it won’t be ready until basically when gates open.

If you are an Android developer, we would very much appreciate anyone chipping in and either getting the app ready or improving it, as you see fit. You can either contact us at iburn@gaiagps.com, or you can simply go to town on the open source code, hosted on GitHub.

Due to the embargo we have to observe on the camp geo-data, we probably won’t publish the Android version until gates open. For the iPhone version, we worked around the embargo by locking up the data in the app, but on Android, we don’t have as many developers, and we don’t really have time to code the app for early release. As I understand it, there should be some wi-fi on the playa this year, so hopefully the early-goers will be able to get it regardless.

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