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: "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. 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 'q...

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: 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...

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!!

If you are looking to go skiing in California this weekend, Mammoth has 7 lifts open. Rest of the resorts have 1 - 3 lifts open. Boreal has 3 lifts open and has decent snow. For lift status for rest of the resorts go here .

Josep Maria at MiBlackBerry kindly mentioned BerrySki. Here is the link to Josep's post . We are actively working on adding European resorts to BerrySki.

Ronen Halvey at BerryReview kindly reviewed BerrySki today. Here is the link to Ronen's post . Please check it out. We would like to address why BerrySki is priced like this. BerrySki's maps are vector maps. In short it means that these maps are more than just images. The maps enable us to do queries like "what's the name of trail you are on", "what is the name of the nearest lift" etc. This allows us to do detailed run analytics and provide cool features like virtual race with friends. Using run analytics for virtual racing You can use this feature for casual racing with your friends on the mountain, without a race coordinator to say "GO" or the need of start and end line. Infact you and your friend don't have to start at the same time for racing. All you need to do is turn on track recording and at the end of the run see how much time your friend took to do that trail. The reason it works is because the start and the end l...

The first app to do live run by run analysis right on your blackberry is now officially released! Thanks everyone who helped out in the final push to get the product out. We would love to get your feedback. Need more in analytics, want more features, or don't find your favourite ski resort in the list, or found that pesky bug :-), please let us know on our Facebook page . You can find all the features here. You can also watch cool video of track animation and other features .