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.”
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
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.
UPDATE: On Thursday July 5, around 9pm PST, Apple re-pushed out the Gaia GPS v6.5 update, and presumably updates for all the affected apps. You should now be able to download the latest release, which will fix your app if you downloaded a corrupt binary.
ORIGINAL POST: Many people have emailed to say new installs and updates of Gaia GPS are crashing. This is an issue with the App Store itself, and affects many apps that had updates on July 4.
This blog provides steps to resolve the issue, background, and links to news articles and blogs.
Apple reviewed and approved our latest update on July 4. Soon after, we began getting emails from people letting us know that Gaia would not boot – these emails came from both new users and people who updated. These reports were mostly, if not all, from people running iOS 5.1.1.
At that point, we checked our automatic crash logger, where we did not see any reported crashes. We then loaded up the app on to 7 devices. One of the devices, an iPhone running iOS 5.1.1, received a corrupt binary and would not boot Gaia. At that point, we ran the device under debug mode in XCode, booting from the build of our code we shipped to Apple. Again, we were not able to detect any crashes.
Finally, we began to suspect the issue was with the App Store itself. Soon, blog posts and confirmations emerged that other developers were having the same issue.
As of 11am on July 5, Apple is mum on the issue.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused during the holiday. We’ll update our blog as we get more information.
There is a nasty, but easy-to-fix, crash you might experience in the latest version of Gaia GPS. You can fix this crash via iTunes, simply by following the instructions below.
If you do not have any important data saved in Gaia GPS (tracks, waypoints, or downloaded maps) or don’t have access to iTunes on a computer, you can also fix this crash by deleting the app and reinstalling it from the App store. You will not be recharged during the reinstall.
Fix from iTunes
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After that, restarting the app should make it work fine. The only effect you will experience is your settings (metric/imperial, etc.) will need to be set again.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Gaia v6.3 was a big release, and this bug snuck in! We hope you otherwise like the improvements.
This past Wednesday we received an email from a user in Alaska, who used Gaia to good effect when a storm struck:
The email that simply read, “the gps worked awesome in Alaska and saved my ass in a white out.”