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Gaia Guide (http://www.gaiaguide.info/) is an online field guide that everyone can contribute to. With thousands of species described, including many high-quality identification photos, Gaia Guide is a great way to get to know the many species that we share this world with.

When you are heading into the wilderness, this app. is the best way to take the Gaia Guide with you, even when you are offline.

App. highlights include:

* Quick-find search facility

* Capture and upload sightings to your personal sighting records maintained on the Gaia Guide webserver

* Integration with device camera and photo gallery

* Only download the field guides that you want to have locally

* Combine data from multiple field guides

* Don't wait for data updates. Ensure you have the latest data from the server before you travel

With over 2000 species descriptions that include images, Gaia Guide now provides good coverage for:

* Australian birds

* Australian mammals

* Sydney Harbour Fishes

* Lizard Island marine life

* Yalgorup National Park (Western Australia) birds, mammals, reptiles and frogs.

* Heron and Lady Elliott Island birds and fishes

* Central Australia birds, mammals and reptiles

* Atherton Tablelands birds, mammals and reptiles

Many more locations and species are becoming available as the Gaia Guide project expands.

DETAILS:

To use Gaia Guide Mobile, first register with the Gaia Guide website. Then use the website to select the field guides you want. Next download them to your mobile device with a single button. With the data on you device, you are ready to to explore the great outdoors, with or without an internet connection. You can perform all of these steps through the app itself, if you are networked.

Search among the species that you downloaded, make identifications, add photographs, location and time details and other notes about your sightings, ready for automated upload to the Gaia Guide website upon your return to civilisation.

Your sighting data will be available on the Gaia Guide website for you and other users to benefit from.

Travelling to a new destination? Simply log into the Gaia Guide website, select a different set of field guides and download them. You are all set to go again.

Best of all, when you discover something new and special about a species, you can log into the Gaia Guide website when you get home and share your insights with future users.

To keep user costs to a minimum, Gaia Guide charges a small amount per MB of data downloaded to mobile devices from the servers. New registrants on the Gaia Guide website get a 250MB data download allowance for free: more than sufficient to try a variety of complete field guides.

For downloads beyond the initial 250 MB, an in-app fee is payable for additional download allowances. An additional 1000 MB of downloads costs less than $2 (Australian). A typical data download will consume less than 100MB of your download allowance.

By charging for bandwidth usage we can ensure that costs are minimised for infrequent users while heavy users are not constrained and our services are not compromised.

Best of all, if you are or you become a major content contributor to the website, your download costs will be waived. Make the Gaia Guide better for everyone and you will be making it much better for yourself.

Finally, if you find and report a problem with Gaia Guide Mobile, you will also be thanked with a one-off 5 GB increase in your download allowance.