Course-Up mode very unresponsive
Hi there, I'm having some issues with 'Course Up' mode on my Gaia GPS iOS app that make the feature pretty unusable for me. I use Gaia primarily in my car for off-road navigation.
Specifically, after tapping on the 'locate' icon to enable 'Course Up' mode (https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003639148-Showing-Your-Location-on-the-Map) my map re-orients into course-up mode but then it doesn't update to move along with my location.
For the map to update I need to tap on 'locate' again to centre on my location. As soon as I enable course-up mode again my map stops updating it's location.
Do any of you face the same issues? Are you able to use course-up mode to follow a track or a route accurately?
I reached out to Gaia support about this a few months ago in early December and they acknowledged the bug but they have yet to fix it. Surely an accurate and functioning course-up mode is a core part of any GPS app right?
-
I used the app for my first time today, on my iPad, while driving off road and saw similar behavior. I had Course Up turned on and track recording turned on. The tip of the track recording trace would keep up with my position on the map but the position arrow would lag behind. It was frustrating when I was looking for a turn and I would physically come to the turn long before the arrow was there. Clearly the built in GPS in the iPad was giving a good position since the track recording trace was keeping up with actual position.
-
Hello all,
I'm just popping in to let you know that we have a bug report open for this issue and we're looking into a fix.
In the meantime, please make sure that your location permissions are set to "Always" by following these steps:Also, closing any other apps running in the background while using Gaia GPS may help.
We'll update this thread as soon as we have an update. -
Same issue here, with my iPad Mini. The red line advances properly, but the arrow lags WAY behind and the map centers on the arrow. So I am basically driving off the map constantly, making Course mode totally useless for seeing upcoming turns.
In Compass mode, the responsiveness is fine but its far less suited to driving.
We used this app all day every day in Baja two years ago and it was flawless. Something has changed for the worse. i'd be happy to be able to reload the two year old version if it was made available.
-
@TucsonJoe
We are still working on fixing this issue, sorry about that.
If you have any further questions, please contact Support here. -
Have been using Gaia since august 2021, course up worked great then a couple of months ago the course up developed this problem. Planned a callback and told me it was being worked on, then a week later it started to work perfectly, great I thought Gaia must have found the problem
Then last week they sent out this new map layer (beta) setting, intermittent course up came back even worse, turned off the beta layer (which is useless by the way) restated the program still bad, I completely deleted the app this morning and reinstalled in hope that it will work, I downloaded a free trial of OnX and it is starting to look very attractive as it works well!!! -
I'm having the same issue with this KEY piece of functionality. I use this to follow motorcycle off-road tracks, and not having the map always up is super frustrating. As others on this thread have commented, the map stops following my progress as soon as I tap on that icon. Compass mode works fine.
Please sign in to leave a comment.
Comments
18 comments