Best GPX apps/programs

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What is the best GPX app/program(s)?

Caltopo
38
52%
GAIA
23
32%
All Trails
3
4%
Garmin
4
5%
Avenza
0
No votes
Other (add in comments)
5
7%
 
Total votes: 73
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Re: Best GPX apps/programs

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colingoodman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:02 am I used to use Gaia, but after Outside bought it the developers of Gaia left and started working on a clone called Goat Maps. Not sure what the story is there, but Goat Maps is close to parity with Gaia and being improved quickly.

https://www.goatmaps.com/
They acquired a software company without making the GAIA developers sign a Non-Compete? Duh
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We're going to look back at the Great Outside Acquisition as a mass grave of once-loved products and publications in the attempt to monopolize "Outside"-ness for the pursuit of profit.
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justiner wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 1:27 pm We're going to look back at the Great Outside Acquisition as a mass grave of once-loved products and publications in the attempt to monopolize "Outside"-ness for the pursuit of profit.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-f ... ntain-west

Nice requiem for all the brands now bought out under the Outside Umbrella
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I use Organic Maps for low-res maps and routing (OpenStreetMap), and Peakbagger for high-res topos (USGS, USFS, others). Those two together are good enough anywhere in the world. I want to like CalTopo, since it has a ton of useful features like slope-angle shading, but the offline mode on iOS is too buggy to count on, frequently refusing to paint tiles I have downloaded or glitching out and painting random junk.

Speaking of buyouts and software going to s**t... Organic Maps is a fork of MapsWithMe, which became Maps.Me, then got sold on to a series of increasingly greedy scum and holding companies. The original developers took the last decent version of Maps.Me and have been steadily improving it.
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