August 31, 2022

🤖Finally, Organic Maps August update is also available in Google Play, Fdroid, Huawei AppGallery, and Flathub (iOS version passed review earlier). Thanks to all our contributors, supporters, and users, the app goes better and better with each update 😉

Highlights:

• New data as of August 16
• Longer routes are calculated faster
• Search should work way better and faster now
• Reduced size of mwm files
• Restored WunderLINQ support (yes, we have an API! Check omaps.app/api)
• Disabled Vulkan for Mali-G71 to fix path rendering
• Support wikimedia_commons tag
• Fixed crash when selecting some objects on the map

User Interface:

• Unified Place Page and Editor UI layout
• Replaced altitude difference to ascent and descent
• Show POI level in Place Page
• Show "Map data from OpenStreetMap" in the splash screen. Yes, many users don't get it.
• Fixed advanced timetable editor layout

Navigation:

• Fixed roundabout number
• Increased visibility of next street
• Fixed font in navigation progress bar

Search improvements:

• Fixed issue when some found objects were not highlighted on the map
• Removed common street search synonyms like parkway, path, line, walk, trail, etc.
• Fixed coordinates search if the query contains a newline
• Ignore non-relevant search results for coordinates
• Better search for capitals
• Treat 'emergency' as a last-choice feature type
• Added Catalan street search synonyms
• Properly filter equal streets in search results

Map styles:

• Improved visibility of military areas and boundaries
• Show disabled parking spaces
• Do not draw icon for residential gardens
• Render farm yard
• Add parking_entrance
• Add playground and internet cafe icon
• Add second_hand and charity
• Add table_tennis, volleyball, beachvolleyball, skateboard, chess, padel, handball, futsal, hockey, badminton, pelota
• Removed background circles from non-business icons

Translations:

• Updated Arabic translations and TTS texts
• Added missing translations for place=*
• Belarusian translations of countries
• Added missing Turkish translations