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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