Gps Ski Maps covered in BlackberryItalia

Gps Ski Maps is thrilled to be mentiond on BlackBerryItalia - the leading Italian source for Blackberry. We support about 130 Italian Ski Resorts including Dolomiti SuperSki, and 460+ resorts in whole of Europe.

Check out out on BlackBerryItalia.it !

--Gps Ski Maps Team.

BerrySki/Gps Ski Maps is now available for Europe

We've released an updated version of 'Gps Ski Maps' for European ski resorts. This year we support 460+ ski resorts in Europe.

On popular demand we've added new resorts in the Pyrenees/Andorra region.

• Ax-3 Domaines Ax-Les-Thermes, Bonascre
• Baqueira-Beret Bonaigua
• Cauterets
• Font-Romeu Pyrenees 2000 Bolquere
• Gourette(coming soon!!)
• Grand Tourmalet Bareges, La Mongie, Domaine du Tourmalet
• Grandvalira Soldeu, El Tarter, Grau Roig, Pas de la Casa, Encamp, Canillo (coming soon!!)
• La Pierre Saint-Martin (coming soon!!)
• Luchon-Superbagneres
• Luz-Ardiden
• Peyragudes
• Piau-Engaly
• Saint-Lary Soulon Pla d'Adet, Espiaube
• Vallnord Arcalis, Pal, Arinsal, Ordino, La Massana

The following two ski resorts in Austria/Germany region will be added soon.

• Fieberbrunn (coming soon)
• St Johann in Tirol (coming soon)

BerrySki is now GpsSkiMaps - now on Android® & Blackberry®

We've released a new updated version of BerrySki for 2010-11 season. This year the app is called 'GpsSkiMaps' and is available for both Android and Blackberry devices.

This year the app supports 109 ski resorts in N. America. You can find the complete list of supported ski resorts here. We were able to add majority of the ski resorts that were requested for the app last year. If you see your favorite ski resort missing please send us an email.

This year the app has been updated with new features. You can find the complete features here.

Some of the newly included features are:

• View POIs
• Search POIs
• View Seasons or Lifelong Summary (If you used the app last year, you would f ind it useful)
• Create Custom WayPoints
• Distance Bearing Tool
• Trail by trail elevation analysis.

Included below is the app in action on Android devices.

There was a lot of work done behind the scenes to make the analysis even better. GpsSkiMaps is the only app to do on device analysis that is not done by any software (mobile or desktop or web based).

TopoSports now covers Canada and USA

Hello Canada!

We are thrilled to announce that we have now added support for Canada Topomaps in our TopoSports product. Now you can also download 1:50K topo maps covering entire Canada, published by NRCan (Natural Resources Canada). Please upgrade to the latest version of TopoSports by clicking on Check For Updates feature on your app.

You can download NRCan Toporama quads by:

• Searching for quads by feature name, or
• Using Show Nearby Quads

For convenience, we have also created a list of featured quads covering popular destinations like "Banff National Park" etc.

The "official" list of features in this release include:

• Support for Canada!
• Renaming the quads as you wish (a small but often requested feature).
• Double clicking MyLocation shows the Latitude, Longitude, and elevation details.
• On POI screen, press a character key to directly jump to first POI starting with that character.

Find Nearby Quads using TopoSports

We listened to your feedback and have added some more features to the first version.
TopoSports has been enhanced with the ability to find nearby quads and download them.

This is especially useful for the following two use cases:

1. "MyLocation" keeps showing you in an area for which you do not have a map. Simply press menu and select "Nearby quads". This will show you all the nearby quads in a grid. The quad for the map you are looking at would be the center of this grid.
2. You already have quad of an area and you want to look at its neighboring quads. Simply select the quad you have download, press menu and select "Nearby quads".

I am including below screenshots of this in action. The screenshots were taken on a Storm1.

Fig. 1 My Location shows me in a quad I don't have the map for

Fig. 2 I am in Cupertino and I can see nearby quads

The new release has the following minor changes:

• More convenient hotkeys: Pressing 'i' on devices with full 'qwerty' keyboard should now zoom-in. This will make it more consistent with RIM's built in apps which use 'i' for zoom in and 'o' for zoomout. If you have a blackberry pearl 'l' will continue to zoom-in.
• Minor messaging changes during map download.

Keep that feedback coming!

TopoSports USA for blackberry launched

TopoSports, USA, the only blackberry app to offer offline topo maps, covering entire USA has been launched. Its the first wilderness navigation app for outdoor sports enthusiasts - biking, hiking, jogging, GeoCaching etc.

Thanks to all our early adopters for trying out the early software versions of TopoSports.

Embedded below is a video illustrating TopoSports in action.

The initial version only supports blackberry devices and USA.

We are working on adding support for more platforms and more regions. The current blackberry version supports the following feature set.

• Download topo maps of any quad in US for offline usage.

The app lets you download topo maps of any quad in US.

The maps have been re-projected for WGS84 datum and are GPS accurate for all mobile devices.

There are two ways to download the maps:

1. Search for a quad of your choice by specifying the feature or quad name. It is strongly recommended that you provide the state for which you are trying to download the map.
2. We also have list of popular quads for you to choose from.

• Seamless mosaicing of quads

- If you download adjacent quads, the app automatically switches from one quad to the other when you scroll.

• Distance/Bearing tool

- Measure distance and bearing from the center of the map to any point.

• Create custom way points

- You can create custom way points in two ways:

1. From your current location.
2. Manually selecting a point on the map.

• POI layer for each quad

- All the quads come with a list of POIs for that quad.

- The POI layer can be overlaid on the quad map. The app automatically figur

es out which POI layer to load.

- Clicking on a POI would show its geographic name.

The POI list is the complete list of geographic names published by GNIS.

• Search POIs/Way points

- You can search for created way points/POIs by name.

• Pan/zoom/locate yourself

The software supports standard mapping featurs like pan/zoom to get an overall idea of the region. The maps have been reprojected for WGS84 datum so that they are GPS accurate .If your device has a GPS or you use a bluetooth GPS puck, you can locate yourself at any time.

• Record GPS tracks

If your device has GPS or you use a bluetooth GPS puck paired with your device, you can record your GPS tracks.

• View tracks overlay

If you turn on track recording, at any point you can view the map with your tracks overlaid on the map in dark brown color. This would help you figure out with a glance where you have been and what area you haven't touched at all.

• Live track animation

If you turn on track recording, you can play your track at any time. The track play shows you a red dot traversing the map. The speed of the red dot is proportional to how fast you go. The red dot goes faster at places where you go faster. You can see your speed at the bottom left corner of the phone screen.

• Track analytics/stats

The app shows the following stats for each track:

- Distance covered

- Average speed

- Maximum speed

- Time taken

- Pace (time taken to cover a mile or km)

- Calories burned

- Vertical ascent/descent

• Export tracks in GPX format.

- You can export tracks in GPX format to SDCard/device memory.

- GPX tracks can be shared with others or viewed on Google earth.

Berryski on AppReport

Roman Hoeller at AppReport was kind enough to mention Berryski.

Here is the link to the post. Please check it out.

AppReport noticed that the Homescreen says "Welcome to skiracer!!'. Great catch:) When we first started the project, we called it skiracer. Infact when you install the app, the name of binary that is installed is skiracer.cod!!