Gaia Base Map

Joined
Jan 2, 2025
Messages
54
Location
Montana
I have been using onyx for the last 5 years or so and love it. However this last summer I got a promo deal through outside that bundle Trailforks (mountain biking app) with Gaia. I went for it as it was cheaper than just the $ of Trailforks. Gaia worked great for the summer as it brought a lot of Trailforks into Gaia, also found it worked really well for river rafting as it shows gauge stations etc.

I got to hunting season and thought I would test it out for hunting. I started switching the layers that lend themselves to hunting. I found that Gaia will use one of the maps as its “base map”. Long and short of it as I went through I have seemed to really screw my layers up. Now it seems I have good terrain overview but a lot of things are not labeled on the map. Anyone have any suggestions for a couple layers that have good satellite, layers with topo, and label peaks, creeks, etc. Thanks for any tips.
 

Mikedlaw

Lil-Rokslider
Joined
Sep 27, 2017
Messages
152
Location
Southern Idaho
I usually use Gaia topo or Gaia overland as my base map. I have USGS Topo, Private Land, USFS 2016, GMUs, Google Earth all in my active maps and adjust the sliders on those as needed.

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Use the tutorial from this post to import Google Earth into Gaia, it's better than any of the satellite options that Gaia provides...

Google Earth Gaia
 
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