Using GAIA

That application has an excellent instruction manual.

You can download an entire PDF version of the user manual to iOS Books by following this link:

iOS: https://static.gaiagps.com/user-manual/iOS/en-us.pdf
gaiagps.com: https://static.gaiagps.com/user-manual/GaiaGPS.com/en-us.pdf

If you login at http://www.gaiagps.com (not even sure you have to login), then click on Help (top center) you’ll find all kinds of good info. The FAQ link has plenty of videos.

Alan Dixon has a great overview:

https://www.adventurealan.com/iphone-gps-map-backpacking/

Great article by adventurealan. Thanks for posting it. Now I will be more confident of how to set my iPhone and use Gaia mapping. I’ll probably download maps tonight using his suggestions for tracking and remove some of my downloaded maps.

I also like Luc Mehl’s tutorial…some info on more advanced features.

https://thingstolucat.com/2019/03/17/navigation-with-gaia-gps/

Wow, thank you…all great information. I went out and did a 3-hour bushwhack this morning. GAIA is a wonderful tool and I’m impressed.

My new phone, a Galaxy S10, was fully charged and on airplane mode. I had GAIA on tracking and Earthmate on although it was not recording a track. My phone went down to 41% charged by the end.  I was surprised it was down that low especially being on airplane mode.

Any thoughts why?

iOS Gaia experience here: tracking costs a lot of battery. Without tracking I go through 20–25%/day including photos and maybe a little audiobook/podcast if I’m having trouble sleeping. With tracking on, all bets are off.