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Gaia Premium for android Auxilio!

chippy - 4-12-2022 at 01:56 PM

I have purchased Gaia premium to use with my Samsung android tablet. All the tutorials are for ios. In the ios tutes they show a huge selection of maps. On my android I am only seeing 5. Is there a map package I need to download?

I tried both calling and emailing the help center but no one replies.

Thanks for any help.

John Harper - 4-12-2022 at 04:45 PM

Is it possible your Premium membership isn't activated/registered? I see it says the Standard membership has limited maps. Perhaps that's the issue?

John

[Edited on 4-12-2022 by John Harper]

chippy - 4-12-2022 at 06:27 PM

Quote: Originally posted by John Harper  
Is it possible your Premium membership isn't activated/registered? I see it says the Standard membership has limited maps. Perhaps that's the issue?

John

[Edited on 4-12-2022 by John Harper]


Thats probably it. I´ll have to keep trying to contact them. Thanks for the reply.

[Edited on 4-13-2022 by chippy]

BooJumMan - 4-13-2022 at 06:57 AM

Chippy, on the top right corner, you'll see three squares, it is the map overlay or "Layers" icon. Tap on that and you should see your options for Routes, Waypoints, POI's, etc. On the bottom, it should say "Add Layers". There should be many map options in there.

To be honest, there are so many maps now in GAIA that it is almost confusing and cumbersome. I prefer the Gaia Topo and Gaia Satellite map in most cases.

chippy - 4-13-2022 at 03:04 PM

Quote: Originally posted by BooJumMan  
Chippy, on the top right corner, you'll see three squares, it is the map overlay or "Layers" icon. Tap on that and you should see your options for Routes, Waypoints, POI's, etc. On the bottom, it should say "Add Layers". There should be many map options in there.

To be honest, there are so many maps now in GAIA that it is almost confusing and cumbersome. I prefer the Gaia Topo and Gaia Satellite map in most cases.



Thank you boojumman! That was my problem. Your not kidding about all the maps! Do the gaia maps you mentioned work well offroad in Baja and the states?
Cheers!

John Harper - 4-14-2022 at 09:35 AM

Quote: Originally posted by chippy  
Quote: Originally posted by BooJumMan  
Chippy, on the top right corner, you'll see three squares, it is the map overlay or "Layers" icon. Tap on that and you should see your options for Routes, Waypoints, POI's, etc. On the bottom, it should say "Add Layers". There should be many map options in there.

To be honest, there are so many maps now in GAIA that it is almost confusing and cumbersome. I prefer the Gaia Topo and Gaia Satellite map in most cases.



Thank you boojumman! That was my problem. Your not kidding about all the maps! Do the gaia maps you mentioned work well offroad in Baja and the states?
Cheers!


They seem to work well in the States, I've used them while in Wyoming. I do have backup FS maps in paper and virtual.

John

[Edited on 4-14-2022 by John Harper]

StuckSucks - 4-14-2022 at 04:38 PM

There are Baja and Mexico topo maps that work well.

chippy - 4-14-2022 at 05:13 PM

Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks  
There are Baja and Mexico topo maps that work well.


Great to hear! I found the inegi map,what's the other one?

4x4abc - 4-14-2022 at 06:08 PM

INEGI is the only good topo on Gaia GPS for Baja
most accurate
most detail
best resolution

only Google Earth is better

David K - 4-14-2022 at 06:30 PM

Quote: Originally posted by chippy  
Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks  
There are Baja and Mexico topo maps that work well.


Great to hear! I found the inegi map,what's the other one?


If you need topographic lines, then check out the (unpublished) 2015 Baja California Almanac. It was made available (by an unknown source) to download last year. The publisher, Landon Crumpton, died before it got to the printers.
This link is in the maps section at Vivabaja.com: https://baja-almanac.com/