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Navigate Through Town with the New Gaia Streets Map

by Julien Friedland March 7, 2020
written by Julien Friedland

Get your bearings in cities, towns, and on the road with the new Gaia Streets map. The new map features more points of interest and amenity labels with less clutter, making it easy to pinpoint the places you want to go on the road. Use this map as a go-to for navigation and wayfinding through city downtowns, national park centers, and anywhere else the road takes you.

Find Restaurants, Shops, and Places Near You

With clearer labeling, fewer topo lines, and a softer color palette, the new Gaia Streets map helps you reach places more conveniently in your vehicle. Points of interest appear first when you zoom in and out on the map, highlighting the most critical information first. This makes planning national park visits easier, placing more emphasis on visitors centers, restrooms, and trailheads.

Orient yourself after spending multiple days on the trail by finding laundry, a hot meal, beers, or whatever else you’re craving on the map. New labels include restaurants, pubs, breweries, shops, grocery stores, transportation terminals, gear shops, parks, banks, and more.

While visiting a new city, explore the neighborhood parks, bike paths, and local trails or locate the train and bus terminals for upcoming travel. Additionally, plug Gaia GPS into CarPlay to discover surrounding businesses and points of interest right on the touchscreen of your dashboard.

Roadway Labeling

New designations appear over roadways, clearly identifying interstates, exit numbers, and road names. For example, quickly locate exits or frontage roads to avoid road closures or traffic along your route. Identify road types with color-coding: interstates in red, major roads in yellow, and streets in white.

How to Get Gaia Streets Map

Gaia Streets map is available to all Gaia GPS users. Download the Gaia Streets map by visiting the layers menu > Road Maps > Gaia Streets.

March 7, 2020
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Unlock New Routes with the USFS Roads and Trails Overlay

by Corey Buhay January 14, 2019
written by Corey Buhay

An overlay featuring backroads, forgotten trails, and brand-new routes currently unavailable on any other Gaia GPS map, USFS Roads and Trails expands your possibilities. Use it to explore the backcountry, and add it to your repertoire of tools for building the ultimate customized map.

The USFS Roads and Trails overlay displays a web of roads and trails sourced from official U.S. Forest Service data, and uses a color-coded scale to indicate how developed each road or trail is. In iOS, it’s also interactive: Tap a pathway in the app to get information on its width, surface type, and vehicle clearance requirements.

Because this layer is updated more frequently than the more expansive USFS topo maps, it’s a useful resource for discovering new trails that don’t yet exist on those maps, as well as for checking the status of old ones.

This new overlay is designed to supplement Open Street Map data with government-verified information. It’s an ideal supplement for existing Gaia GPS topo maps in addition to the USFS Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) overlay, as the USFS Roads and Trails layer is derived from a separate dataset. It therefore covers some areas unavailable on the MVUM overlay, and vice versa.

How to Use the USFS Roads and Trails Overlay

The USFS Roads and Trails overlay is available for iOS and Android users as well as on gaiagps.com. It will be updated four times per year as the USFS releases new information.

To access the layer, find it in the Feature/Weather Overlays category of the map manager. Then, add it atop any of your favorite base maps to see available routes clearly picked out against the background of your choosing. This and other detailed map layers are currently available to those with a Premium Membership.

You can find the legend below as well as on the Gaia GPS Map Legends page.

January 14, 2019
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