The app provides quick access to the trails that are listed on the Trails WA website, and allows you to search for specific trails by region, type of trail, experience, difficulty and time required to complete the trails.  Since your iPhone is also a GPS, we also can find the trails near to you (based on your current location) and show them on a handy map.

When viewing more details about a particular trail, you will have access to information including degree of difficulty, length of trail, time required to complete trails, facilities, map of the trail and contact information to allow you to plan your visit.

All this is information is available even when you are offline (e.g. when there is no network coverage in remote areas) and the trail information is kept up to date automatically whenever changes to are made to the Trails WA website.  This means you can go on a nice long hike and still use the app.

Additionally the app also provides access to any up to date alerts including park alerts, fire alerts, Department of Fire and Emergency Services alerts and latest news from the Department of Parks and Wildlife, which is quite important considering the fires around the state in the last few weeks.  Of course, this only works if you are online.

So, download the app today and get out there!  If you want to know more, you can have a look at our summary project page or start a conversation with us on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.

Sam

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Camping Mate is an app that helps users plan a camping trip away by having helpful checklist items based on different camping types, and is easily customizable to each individual by allowing you to add and remove items to suit.  It is a useful tool to allow you to check off items needed for your camping trip and also allows sharing of these lists (and checked off status of each item) via email with the people you’re camping with. It also has useful information/links about planning your upcoming camping trip from the Department of Parks and Wildlife.

The app was built using Cordova (https://cordova.apache.org) and also using Ionic Framework (http://ionicframework.com) which allowed us to develop both iOS and Android apps fairly quickly with a native looking UI and experience.

It is available for download free on the iTunes or Google Play stores via the buttons below:

It was a great first project for me to get involved with the technologies and way that Gaia Resources work, and to see the app hit the stores is a great milestone for all of us involved both at Gaia Resources and the Department of Parks and Wildlife.

Sam

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