Upload area colors/ Shading
Not planned
Our land conservation organization has nearly 1,000 properties conserved that need to be monitored annually. We utilize a variety of tools to complete this task. We uploaded our properties into Gaia as areas. Unfortunately, Gaia automatically shades the interior of the properties a variety of colors. The shading gets in the way of actually seeing the topography or aerial imagery layers. Could you eliminate the shading or at least have an option to choose "Hollow" as a color so it's invisible?
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Official comment
Hey zpearo,
Currently, adjusting areas to have the option to be clear/hollow is not on the roadmap for this year. I do appreciate the feedback and encourage anyone interested in this feature to upvote this post.
In the meantime, in addition to the workaround that Nate mentioned, you can import areas as GPX files to Gaia GPS and it will display only the outline of the area without any shading.
For folks creating areas in the app that they do not want to be shaded, I recommend creating a straight line route: Create a Route in the iOS App.Comment actions -
@zpearo
Thanks for posting and I see how having the option to set the interior color to clear would be beneficial.
As a workaround, you can create a custom map source based on the areas and adjust the shade and outline of the areas. Check out this article for more details on creating a custom map source: Import Maps/Data with Mapbox Studio. -
Hello-
As a new Gaia user, let me first say I was impressed enough to discontinue my Basemap subscription and buy a premium Gaia membership.
I had the same question I found in this thread-
Can we simply create an outline/shape, with the option of not having it filled, without having to do the workaround of creating a straight line shape?
I noted that there seems to have been no further progress reported on this, and am curious if this request is still on the radar of any of the developers? It would be very useful to have, and would be greatly appreciated. If I have missed an update, my utmost apologies. I am simply at the same point of curiosity as was @zpearo over a year ago, and I am kinda sure technology has moved forward?
Thanks again for an otherwise stellar app!
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Hi SRBK, there is a work around for this. Once you upload your data you can export it as a GPX and then re upload the GPX and it should be fine. Uploading as a GPX seems to solve the shading issue. The only problem is if you have a really large file, then you need to export it in segments because uploading as a GPX seems to take up more space. Not a huge deal, but I was uploading almost 1,000 boundaries and needed to break it down into 4 segments. Hope this helps!
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We create sectors for search and rescue missions. I agree that it would be helpful to have option of no color, we have the same problem zpero has with distortion/hard to read. While there are workarounds, which we currently use, it adds another layer of complexity. For example, create an area allows us to limit our sector size by acreage; whereas straight line does not show sector size.
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I just wanted to agree that having the area filled has been a problem for our entire field staff. GAIA has been a great help for our company. We are looking forward to your programmers creating an unfilled polygon option. I
n fact I would guess that the majority of users would appreciate the default polygon being NOT FILLED/Hollow with the option of shading/ filling when desired.
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As an interim fix, can it be made so Gaia simply uses the symbology contained in a KMZ? When we create a kmz from ArcGIS (Pro or ArcMap), the symbology is saved within the kmz and the layer shows up in Google Earth the same way it was displayed in ArcGIS when creating the kmz. Is it possible to have Gaia access this symbology that is saved within the kmz?
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This would be very helpful. I use GAIA GPS in exactly the same way that as original poster - as a mapping and navigation tool for volunteers who monitor our conserved easements. The mandatory shading within areas uploaded as KMZ/KML files makes it difficult for people to see the topography base layer. It seems like such a basic thing to. The KML file was imported with the same symbology used in ArcGIS Pro, from which the file was exported. But for some reason it shades the polygons! Infuriating!! ArcGIS Pro doesn't seem to want to let me export my layer to GPX.
PLEASE FIX THIS!!
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I'm not really viewing this as a feature request.
How about just properly implementing the standard. Like, you know, the standard-
Instead, Gaia ingests a kml file, throws away all of the data, and replaces it with their own data. How about you just don't throw that data away? Just, you know, leave it. -
This (and other reasons) is why we plan to move our map making to another app. I could list a few:
Inability to create a photo-map that shows all photos taken along a recorded track and links them to their location along the track.
Inability to control symbology.
Inability to easily organize/reorganize saved files (tracks, waypoints, photos) into folders. It needs a Windows Explorer-like feature to move files around.
I think this app was probably designed for a different purpose, and it's really not a good fit with what we need.
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