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Yesterday’s winner
Congrats to Bill R, yesterday’s winner of the Platypus Platy Bottles.
Today’s giveaway
With the GaiaGPS app, my smartphone has the same functionality as a conventional handheld GPS unit. In many respects a smartphone-as-GPS is an even better system: it saves me several hundred dollars and 4-8 ounces; it utilizes a device with a better screen (bigger, brighter, higher-resolution, pinch-and-zoom, swipe, etc); and it gives me access to gold standard data like USGS quads and Landsat imagery, rather than proprietary data that is generally inferior.
I use my GPS as a backup navigation tool, when I want confirmation or a level of precision that I cannot get with my paper maps, compass, and watch. Read more about my map system.
A screenshot of Gaia GPS, an app that gives your smartphone the capabilities of a handheld GPS (and then some).
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Sounds like a great app!
Better than Backcounty Navigator?
I have not used Navigator. Gaia does what I need it to do, and it has not left me wanting something else. Plus, Gaia is a distance second place among my nav tools. If it’s more of a primary device for you, you might wish it had something else.
I personally like BCNAV better. The Gaia UI is more polished, the maps download faster, but the ability to manage multiple trips, add and edit waypoints, etc, is inferior, at least in my limited experience. Unfortunately with a grace period of just 4 hrs it is difficult to do a proper comparison