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It looks like a large update, with the previous feature release 6 months ago
Excerpts from the Changelog:
Map
- New: Show geofences for lab stages (UnifiedMap) - enable "Circles" in map quick settings to show them
- New: Option to set circles with individual radius to waypoints ("geofence" context menu option)
- Fix: Map view not updated when removing cache from currently shown list
- Fix: Number of cache in list chooser not updated on changing list contents
- Change: Keep current viewport on mapping a list, if all caches fit into current viewport
- New: Follow my location in elevation chart (UnifiedMap)
- New: Enable "move to" / "copy to" actions for "show as list"
- New: Support Elevate Winter theme in map downloader
- New: Adaptive hillshading, optional high quality mode (UnifiedMap Mapsforge)
- New: Redesigned routes/tracks quick settings dialog
- New: Long tap on map selection icon to select previous tile provider (UnifiedMap)
- New: Allow setting display name for offline maps in companion file (UnifiedMap)
- New: Long tap on "enable live button" to load offline caches
- New: Offline hillshading for UnifiedMap (VTM variant)
- New: Support for background maps (UnifiedMap)
- Fix: Compact icons not returning to large icons on zooming in in auto mode (UnifiedMap)
- New: Long-tap actions in cache infosheet: GC code, cache title, coordinates, personal note/hint
- Change: Switches cache infosheet long-tap for emoji selector to short tap to resolve the collision
Cache details
- New: Offline translation of listing text and logs (experimental)
- New: Option to share cache with user data (coordinates, personal note)
- Fix: Speech service interrupted on screen rotation
- Fix: Cache details: Lists for cache not updated after tapping on list name an removing that cache from that list
- Fix: User note gets lost on refreshing a lab adventure
- Change: Log-date related placeholders will use chosen date instead of current date
- New: Collapse long log entries per default
Wherigo player
- New: Integrated Wherigo player checking for missing credentials
- Change: Removed Wherigo bug report (as errors are mostly cartridge-related, need to be fixed by cartridge owner)
- New: Ability to navigate to a zone using compass
- New: Ability to copy zone center coordinates to clipboard
- New: Set zone center as target when opening map (to get routing and distance info for it)
- New: Support opening local Wherigo files
- Change: Long-tap on a zone on map is no longer recognized. This allows users to do other stuff in map zone area available on long-tap, eg: create user-defined cache
- New: Display warning if wherigo.com reports missing EULA (which leads to failing download of cartridge)
General
- New: Redesigned search page
- New: Inventory count filter
- New: Support for coordinates in DD,DDDDDDD format
- New: Show last used filter name in filter dialog
- New: Coordinate calculator: Function to replace "x" with multiplication symbol
- Fix: Incorrect altitude (not using mean above sea level)
- Fix: Nearby distance limit setting not working properly for small values
- Fix: Sorting of cache lists by distance descending not working correctly
- Fix: Lab caches excluded by D/T filter even with active "include uncertain"
- Fix: Color issues with menu icons in light mode
- New: Add "Remove past events" to list "all"
- New: Show connector for "user-defined caches" as active in source filter
- New: GPX export: exporting logs / trackables made optional
- New: Added button to delete log templates
- Fix: Importing local map file gets random map name
- Fix: Map downloader offering broken (0 bytes) files for download
- New: Added mappings for some missing OC cache types
- New: Move "recently used" lists in list selection dialog to the top on pressing "recently used" button
- New: Share list of geocodes from cache list
- Change: "Navigation (car)" etc. use "q=" parameter instead of outdated "ll=" parameter
UnifiedMap roadmap & "old" maps deprecation notice
c:geo has an all-new map implementation called "UnifiedMap" since some time, which will ultimately replace the old implementations of Google Maps and Mapsforge (OpenStreetMap). This is a deprecation notice to inform you about the further roadmap.
UnifiedMap got published about a year ago. It still supports Google Maps and OpenStreetMap (online + offline), but in a completely reworked technical way, and with a lot of exciting new features that the "old" maps do not support, some of which are
- Map rotation for OpenStreetMap based maps (online + offline)
- Cluster popup for Google Maps
- Hide map sources you don't need
- Elevation chart for routes and tracks
- Switch between lists directly from map
- "Driving mode" for OpenStreetMap based maps
UnfiedMap has proven to be stable since quite some time, thus we will remove the old map implementations to reduce the efforts for maintaining c:geo.
Roadmap:
- "Old" maps are in deprecation mode now - we won't fix bugs for it anymore.
- UnifiedMap will be made default for all users in fall of 2025.
- "Old" map implementations will be removed in spring 2026.
Until then, you can switch between the different implementations in settings => map sources.