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Wanderer

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Maybe you can help me with this. I was out and about in the sierras decided to take the trail up to central camp above bass lake. Ontne way up part of my screen went blurry the other part not. Not so blurry you couldn’t make out any thing but enough that you could recognize trails topo lines etc but couldn’t distinguish anything I was just running it on my iPhone 11 and the transfer to the jeeps main screen I was pretty sure I had downloaded the whole area awhile back I think I had the usgstopomap running as a base and not the Gaia base . I dint think much about it then but could that have been the problem?
 
1Louder

1Louder

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Wanderer said:
Maybe you can help me with this. I was out and about in the sierras decided to take the trail up to central camp above bass lake. Ontne way up part of my screen went blurry the other part not. Not so blurry you couldn’t make out any thing but enough that you could recognize trails topo lines etc but couldn’t distinguish anything I was just running it on my iPhone 11 and the transfer to the jeeps main screen I was pretty sure I had downloaded the whole area awhile back I think I had the usgstopomap running as a base and not the Gaia base . I dint think much about it then but could that have been the problem?
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Change the layers to see which one was not downloaded fully. That’s the easiest way to correct things. I recommend downloading an entire State with the Gaia Topo layer. The file size is reasonable. Then you know you have at least one map layer with coverage.

If you saved a set of layers you can always see that under the Saved tab. Find what you saved, say Blah Lake, for example and the click the show on main map button. That should force everything you downloaded to display.

It sounds like you had a layer either not downloaded at all or not completely downloaded. What you were seeing was the cached data in Gaia. It got blurry when you ran out of cached data. You can always clear your cache, set your phone I. Airplane mode with WiFi off and then check your maps again.
 
syncro

syncro

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Has anyone else noticed that Gaia has killed the 5-year plan? My three month trial just ended today and I was going to do the five-year. But as far as I can tell, it's not available anymore. Which is a bummer. I wanna say the five year with a coupon was under $100 and the one year is closer to $40/year (yeah I can get a coupon for ~$35 he first year but who knows what the price will be next year) . A significant difference. I'm kinda wondering why/if Gaia lost confidence in the five-year option.
 
Sparksalot

Sparksalot

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syncro said:
Has anyone else noticed that Gaia has killed the 5-year plan? My three month trial just ended today and I was going to do the five-year. But as far as I can tell, it's not available anymore. Which is a bummer. I wanna say the five year with a coupon was under $100 and the one year is closer to $40/year (yeah I can get a coupon for ~$35 he first year but who knows what the price will be next year) . A significant difference. I'm kinda wondering why/if Gaia lost confidence in the five-year option.
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Gaia was recently acquired, so I’m guessing the new owners are recouping their investment.
 
syncro

syncro

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TahoePPV said:
syncro said:
Has anyone else noticed that Gaia has killed the 5-year plan? My three month trial just ended today and I was going to do the five-year. But as far as I can tell, it's not available anymore. Which is a bummer. I wanna say the five year with a coupon was under $100 and the one year is closer to $40/year (yeah I can get a coupon for ~$35 he first year but who knows what the price will be next year) . A significant difference. I'm kinda wondering why/if Gaia lost confidence in the five-year option.
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Gaia was recently acquired, so I’m guessing the new owners are recouping their investment.
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I'm guessing you're probably right, but now they're going to get a $0 recoup from me vs the ~$100 they were about to get.

Fine, end the offering, raise the price or whatever, but maybe give your existing and eval customers a last shot to lock in the "current" prices. Heck they email me 2x/week. What's one more "last chance at these prices" email.

I've actually been really happy with the (premium) version of OSAMD+. I think that's where I'll put my efforts for the next while. I'm not interested in paying more for the year, putting in the time to learn, then find out next year they want $50 (and the next year $60 and so on).
 
RJ Howell

RJ Howell

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Also sorry to hear this. I do like Gaia, but not at higher pricing! I'll be debating a switch when the time comes if they haven't brought the 5yr plan/pricing back.
 
RJ Howell

RJ Howell

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I'm using the Nat Geo layer and researching George Washington NF. I see the symbol for a gate but there's two different colors of them... Black/brown.. What's the difference?

 
LostWoods

LostWoods

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RJ Howell said:
I'm using the Nat Geo layer and researching George Washington NF. I see the symbol for a gate but there's two different colors of them... Black/brown.. What's the difference?

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Not sure if there's a difference but I can say those are both closed gates. There's not much deviation off Union Springs that isn't private land or restricted forestry roads.
 
RJ Howell

RJ Howell

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I assume it's probably locked vs. unlocked but... I don't see it described in the legion.
 
RJ Howell

RJ Howell

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Here's another.. Black diamond with number in it. No in the legion that I see... Nat Geo again.
I'm thinking it's 'select paved' going by just the road color. Still wondering if 80 is a forest road? Kinda nice if it is!

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mamalone200

mamalone200

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RJ Howell said:
Here's another.. Black diamond with number in it. No in the legion that I see... Nat Geo again.
I'm thinking it's 'select paved' going by just the road color. Still wondering if 80 is a forest road? Kinda nice if it is!

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80 seems to be a paved state highway. I'm going to recommend that when you are looking in a National Forest to use the the USFS 2016 map and MVUM (USFS) layer. Nat Geo is good for finding stuff, but in Virginia especially you really need to use the MVUM layer to get the open/close dates. Lots
 
1Louder

1Louder

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Offline Routing Added to Gaia GPS!
The latest version supports offline routing. When you download a map area just make sure the option to download offline route data is selected.

For your current map downloads go to the downloaded map, tap more, and then tap Download Offline Routing Data

This will be a nice feature if you want to modify where you are going and don't have cell coverage.

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Dusther210

Dusther210

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I just got an email from Gaia saying there is an update for iOS that fixed the problem they were having when saving in folders
 
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