If you missed it, the February 2024 Organic Maps update is already available in Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, and AppStore.
February 14, 2024
If you missed it, the February 2024 Organic Maps update is already available in Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, and AppStore.
Thanks to our contributors ❤️, there is a big list of changes!
- OpenStreetMap data as of February 2
- Restroom emoji for places with toilets
- Display parking operator
- More precise turn notifications for small distances
- Fixed absent speed limit on some speed cameras
- Open Location Codes (OLC, Plus Codes) search shows results relative to the current position and to the screen center
- Fixed crash in search
- Name editing for playgrounds
- Parse coordinates from OpenStreetMap links
- Allow editing of Greek names for Cyprus
- Hindi support
- Better and more precise search on the map, more relevant search results in the list
- Removed "Continue detecting your location?" dialog, now location search can be stopped by pressing the "rotating radar" location button
Android:
- Fixed Spanish and Portuguese TTS languages
- Fixed KML, KMZ, GPX import crash
- Fixed KMZ import from WhatsApp
- Show what is copied to the clipboard on the lock screen for Android 13+
- Fixed blurry buttons on Android 5
Android Auto:
- Fixed indefinite loading
- Fixed World map download
- Show addresses on the Search Screen
iOS:
- Current position is properly updated when returning back to the app
- Improved the look of search bars
- Auto Light/Dark theme setting is synced with the system
- Properly display a longer cuisines list
- Fixed location services permissions request for the first app start
- Reduced the navigation screen top bar height
Map styles:
- Orange color for secondary roads
- Wider and brighter white tertiary roads
- Nicer looking on- and off-ramp road links joins
- Raised visibility of secondary and tertiary road links
- Less bright farmlands color
- Smaller mountain passes/saddles icons
- Reduced visibilities of mountain saddles (compared to passes)
- New ford icon
- Made hospital and clinic icons look different
- Reduced visibility of light rail stations
- Added Boston and updated Taipei subway icons
- Fixed Delhi subway entrance icons, Minsk & Spb subway captions on detailed zoom
- Increased font size of towns and suburbs labels and decreased for neighborhoods
- Fixed bookmark icon for water parks
- Adjust the visibilities of many POIs
Outdoors map style:
- Increased 50m & 100m contour lines visibilities
- Raised visibility of campsites, survey points, toilets, and touristic information features
- New power tower and flagpole/mast icons
- Made bridleways to be the same brown color as paths
- Increased contrast of footways on overview zooms
Car navigation map style:
- Added toilets, convenience stores
- Reduced visibilities of artwork features and subway station captions
- Bigger roundabout exit number
Updated Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Finnish, French, Romanian, Slovak, and Ukrainian translations
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