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We are excited to announce a new app.

From our partner EarthNC, Marine Charts is a full chart plotter solution that works universally on iPhones, iPads, and iTouches. Whether you are cruising, fishing, or sailing around the ocean, this app will be a lot of fun. Here it is on iTunes.

The app presents full US NOAA marine charts, along with deep weather, tide, and POI info. It leverages the base mapping, routing, and place search software we built for Gaia GPS, heavily customized for a nautical experience.

You can view the maps and data online at EarthNC’s online chart viewer. You can see details about the app’s iPhone Marine Charts on earthnc.com.

I’d love to hear from any Gaia GPS users whose interests span both nautical and terrestrial pursuits. Drop me a line at andrew@gaiagps.com.

Today, Gaia Maps and Gaia Places went on sale in the App Store. These two apps feature a subset of the features of Gaia GPS for a lower price (.99 for Places and 1.99 for Maps). Some folks may prefer these slimmed down apps to Gaia GPS, but the main reason we developed them is for use on the iPod Touch, which doesn’t have a GPS chip.

Gaia Maps basically includes all the mapping functionality from Gaia GPS – offline maps, search, bookmarks, and driving directions. It also has a slightly larger map view, since we don’t need any room for a menu on bottom. Here’s a couple screenshots of Gaia Maps.

Gaia Places is the waypoint search component of Gaia GPS. It also includes a mapview and lets you click waypoints on the map. However, it doesn’t do offline maps, GPS recording, etc. Gaia Places is also essentially a reincarnation of our first app – TrailBehind – and it mimics our website – www.trailbehind.com. Here are some screenshots of Gaia Places.

It will be exciting to see how our sales do in the next couple of weeks, and if we get a boost from the cross-marketing of our apps. Coming up next (and in review by Apple right now) are a Lite version of Gaia GPS, and an International version as well. It’s been pretty crazy around our cabin these days – between doing customer service, development, and promotion. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to go hiking again soon 🙂