olyclimber Posted October 4 Posted October 4 What are you guys using? Today I just decided to cut over to CalTopo from GaiaGPS. I've been wanting to get off GaiaGPS for a long while, ever since it was absorbed into the Outside. I've loved being able to keep sort of a journal of geo located photos of my adventures over years, matched up with pretty good maps. Of course loved it when it was free and you could add the photos and sync them to the desktop/web for free. Since then I've continued to use it till I tried CalTopo and instantly liked the available maps better. I'm less worried about my track as I rarely use that feature. I only wish there was a way to bulk export all my photos from Gaia so I could bring them into CalTopo with the geo data. If anyone has found the best way to do this, let me know. Quote
nonbasketless Posted October 8 Posted October 8 CalTopo is the best by leaps and bounds. I used to be anti-app and use it only on desktop, but got the app earlier this year and gah I can't ask for better design. Never used Gaia but problems like that are solvable with Python + DIY 🥲 Quote
JasonG Posted October 8 Posted October 8 I like Gaia, but I get it for free through mountain rescue. Quote
olyclimber Posted October 9 Author Posted October 9 1 hour ago, JasonG said: I like Gaia, but I get it for free through mountain rescue. free is good! i loved it when it was free, or at least all the features I used were. but they started charging for stuff since i'm paying now, I looked around and found the maps in CalTopo to be better. It isn't perfect, but better than Gaia. also found some bad stuff about Outside, but I can't remember what that was, so I won't bother digging it up. but i didn't want to give them my money. Quote
JasonG Posted October 9 Posted October 9 Absolutely....they're gobbling up all the good companies, hoovering up data, and charging too much at the same time. So far I am not giving them any money but we'll see how long that lasts. I know if I have to start paying I'll switch to caltopo as well. I would imagine that you could download all your tracks from Gaia and upload to Caltopo? Quote
olyclimber Posted October 9 Author Posted October 9 Yes tracks and points is easy. And photos too but Outsde imo purposefully leaves out a bulk export of photo way points Quote
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