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Backroad Mapbooks is pleased to announce that our industry-leading topographic maps for Canada are now available on the Gaia GPS app . Gaia is a user-friendly, versatile map application that combines dozens of map sources and overlays, allowing you to pick and choose which one is best for you. The combination of Gaia’s multitude of online and offline features with Backroad Mapbooks’ map data makes this a must-try for Canadian hikers, bikers, hunters and outdoor explorers of all stripes. Here are a few of the features that you will find on your Backroad Mapbooks maps while using the Gaia GPS app: Download the Maps and Receive a Discount via Gaiagps.com Gaia GPS Maps can be easily downloaded free of charge from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Once you have downloaded Gaia, you can upgrade to a premium membership to gain access to the Backroad Mapbooks maps (see link below). You will find the Backroad Mapbooks maps in the Layer tab at the top right corner of your screen. ...

Hat tip this week to Andy Crampton, who  joined Gaia GPS just a few weeks ago , and has already shipped a splendid Android update. The new version (7.0.8) brings Gaia Search to Android, vastly improving search, and bringing Android in alignment with  gaiagps.com  and the iOS app. Andy also nailed a couple of the top bugs we’ve seen in logs and reports, so this release should be a big boon to almost everyone. We’re expecting an accelerated ongoing Android development schedule now! Search With Ease Gaia GPS for Android now suggests locations as you search and marks results with descriptive icons for trails, peaks, forests, and more. Searches show a vastly improved list of possible points of interest, meticulously filtered to give more accurate suggestions. Fine-tune your selection with subtitles for each result denoting specific locale – designed to help when there are multiple results with the same name. You may have already seen this new search capabi...