GPSmyCity is a travel-tech company that turns smartphones into personalized tour guides, helping travelers explore cities at their own pace. With a library of self-guided walking tours and GPS-powered travel articles, the app covers 1,500+ cities worldwide, offering offline maps, curated local insights, and step-by-step routes to cultural landmarks, dining spots, and hidden gems.
30% faster app load times
2x increase in offline map downloads
Nevada, US
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
Travel, Hospitality
Services Used
“Code District did a great job of meeting our needs. The assigned iOS developer was reliable and gelled seamlessly with our in-house team. They regularly communicated to get things done.”
CEO & Founder, GPSmyCITY
As GPSmyCity expanded its global user base, it needed to ensure its app remained fast, reliable, and easy to use, even in areas with limited internet connectivity. The key challenges included:
Providing real-time location tracking was essential for guiding users through walking tours, but GPS accuracy varied across different environments. Dense urban areas with tall buildings and remote regions with poor satellite visibility made precise navigation difficult, affecting the reliability of turn-by-turn directions.
Many users explore new cities without internet access, making it necessary for the app to function seamlessly in offline mode. The challenge was to allow users to download maps, travel articles, and guided routes while ensuring efficient storage management and a smooth offline experience.
With a growing number of users and expanding content libraries, the app needed to handle increased traffic and data loads without lag. Ensuring fast load times, smooth performance, and efficient data synchronization across devices was critical to maintaining user engagement and satisfaction.
As the app covered over 1,500 cities, making content easily discoverable was a challenge. Users needed an intuitive way to search for and access tours, ensuring that route selection, map interactions, and travel recommendations were seamlessly integrated into the user journey.
We partnered with GPSmyCity to provide specialized development expertise, ensuring the app remained fast, user-friendly, and scalable. Our team worked closely with their internal engineers to:
Get the full case studyWe enhanced real-time GPS tracking to provide more accurate location positioning, ensuring users could rely on precise navigation while exploring new cities. To improve offline accessibility, we optimized map storage and retrieval, allowing travelers to download and access city maps without an internet connection. Additionally, we integrated offline search functionality, enabling users to find points of interest and guided routes even when they were not connected to the internet.
To ensure faster app performance, we implemented streamlined data caching and processing, reducing load times for large city databases. Asynchronous data loading was introduced to improve responsiveness, allowing users to browse travel content and maps smoothly, even on low-end devices. We also optimized memory consumption, ensuring the app remained lightweight and functional across all device types without compromising performance.
To enhance the personalization of user experiences, we developed content recommendation features that suggest guided tours based on user preferences and browsing history. We also improved map overlays and tour routes, making navigation more intuitive and visually accessible. Additionally, we introduced multi-language support, allowing a broader audience to access guided tours and local insights in their preferred language.
The app’s UI components were redesigned to improve readability and ease of use, ensuring that users could navigate the platform effortlessly. We introduced gesture-based navigation, allowing for smooth interactions with maps and travel guides, making the user journey more natural and seamless. Additionally, dark mode support was implemented to enhance usability, particularly for travelers exploring cities at night.
faster app load times
reduction in GPS tracking errors
improvement in user retention
cities added to the app
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