In the News
Cult of Mac (October 2011)
G-Form Extreme Sleeve Makes Your iPad Bombproof. Maybe Literally.
"I had loaded topo maps onto the stellar Gaia GPS app"
The apps agenda: Burning Man, IFA
"The Burning Man festival is an experiment in temporary community dedicated to self-expression and participation." Scientific American (August 2011)
Surviving the Unwired Wild: 6 Mobile Offline Apps Make a Smart Phone an Essential Part of a Camper's Tool Kit
"...this app is the most expensive on the list, but it is a small price to pay if you are lost in the woods without cell reception."
Adventure Alan (July 2011)
How to use the iPhone 4 as a GPS mapping device for backpacking
"Gaia worked flawlessly, and the OpenStreetMap map content was far superior to our paper maps."
WeightWatchers Magazine (July 2011)
Smartphone Apps for the Great Outdoors
"Best backcountry GPS"
NY Times Blog (July 2011)
New Google Maps for Android Allows Offline Mapping
"Gaia GPS, available for both Android and iPhone, focuses on providing topographical maps to hikers."
ReadyMade Magazine (July 2011)
Selected Works: The Living's Easy
"If you're jonesing for adventure, try TrailBehind."
BackPackingLight.com (June 2011)
Forum post - Need a smart phone GPS app
"I tried several and Gaia is the most user-friendly."
Wired UK (May 2011)
Field Test: Motorola Xoom vs Apple iPad 2, 3,500 feet up in the Swiss Alps
"Gaia GPS proved the best app for both platforms..."
TechCrunch (April 2011)
EFB For iPad: Will Your Pilot Be Using This In 2012?
"…it's an actual tool for pilots that could easily be used by commercial airlines in the next couple years"
FOX TappedIn (Oct 2010)
Tapped-In: Gaia GPS for the iPhone
"Gaia GPS can get you where you want to go, no matter where you are."
CNN Money (Oct 2010)
I started a business in paradise!
"Andrew Johnson was living in San Francisco working at a startup, and his fiancee, Anna Hentzel, was at Google, when they had an idea for a website that would help people find great places to hike. So they quit their jobs to start it."
Fast Company (Aug 2010)
Burning Man Gets Its Own iPhone App
"Now there's no way you'll miss the nuclear-powered vodka party at the Siberian Electric Company camp!"
Gizmodo (Aug 2010)
What Spaced-Out Burning Man Revelers All Need: an iPhone App
"While I've never done the dropped-acid-and-burnt-wicker-men-alive thing..."
Forbes (July 2010)
iPad As The Ultimate Navigation Tool
"On a recent cross-country trip he opted to use his iPad for trail and road navigation instead of a $300 handheld GPS device."
CMU Today (Apr 2010)
Andrew Johnson and Anna Hentzel
"Combining their backgrounds in business, programming, and Web development, they have created a company for outdoor adventurers like themselves."
BackPackingLight.com (Feb 2010)
Forum post - Solid iPhone GPS App
"You can save your tracks, save your maps, save your gpx's, etc. It's pretty freaking cool."
O'Reilly (Jan 2010)
Haiti: OSM and Sat Imagery for Free iPhone App
"Jeffrey Johnson worked with a small company, TrailBehind, Inc., to adapt the company's existing offline mapping app, Gaia GPS, to provide offline maps to relief workers."
TouchMyApps (Sept 2009)
Gaia GPS in Review - Finding adventures
"... it clearly beats out other apps which only have a small set of the functionality ..."
io9.com (Apr 2009)
A Secret Hiking Trail With a View of Area 51
"If you love to hike and want to catch a glimpse of the elusive Area 51 with your binoculars, then you'll want to follow the trails people have posted on new hike-sharing site TrailBehind."
CMU Tartan (Nov 2008)
Facebook gives CMU hikers $25,000
"Johnson and Hentzel are both avid hikers with computer programming backgrounds."
cmu.edu (Sept 2008)
Modern Day Cartography
"TrailBehind is working to create complete - and free - mps of wilderness areas by aggregating existing Internet data with new trail information uploaded from site users."
