What's new in 0.5.2538
- Android Auto: the car map turns with the car, tilts and zooms out with speed, during a drive and once you move with no route; a Drive button opens a map-only view with the speed badge, and the Traffic layer shows on the car
- Map looks: Settings > Appearance > Map look adds OpenFreeMap's Bright, Positron, Fiord and Dark beside the Vela look, on the same tiles, offline too
- Lists: swipe a list to delete or edit, drag a handle to reorder, long press to select several; a recent search swipes away or opens its menu; Rename is in a list row's menu
- Google Takeout: import one of its per-list CSVs from Settings > Saved places, and the list keeps its name
- Shared Google Maps lists import whole again, however long
- Romanian spoken directions and the Mihai voice
- The Netherlands: the speed limit badge follows timed limits such as 130 at night, and navigation says when a movable bridge on your route is open or opens as you reach it
- Spoken directions have an Alerts only mode: a chime for the speeding, camera and bridge alerts and nothing else; the speaker button during a drive opens On, Alerts only and Off side by side
- The voice no longer says a short step's prompt twice, and a first line the turn would cut loses its sign tail
- The arrow leaves the route on the first fix that is a lane off and heading away, instead of taking the turn for you
- A country, state, city or postal code frames at its own zoom; a house number typed alone keeps the suggestions near you
- The transit Depart at time follows the clock setting
- The welcome page and the camera settings show the badge the map uses for plate cameras
- The hidden Google pages answer ad and telemetry hosts with nothing
- The project has a website at velamaps.org, and its links can move without an update
Everything since 0.5.2435
- Review fixes before the nightly: a list opens at its places again, a rename keeps a listing's address, a bridge is announced once, and the settings file falls back when GitHub does not answer
- The settings file is read from the website's copy when GitHub does not answer
- The settings file carries the Romanian transit and gas station words
- The speaker button during a drive opens On, Alerts only and Off side by side, with the current one filled
- The AMOLED map buttons sit on the theme's near-black, menus take the cards' corner, a recent row swipes to its menu, a rename keeps the street, and the Android Auto doc lists the cars it has worked in
- A shared Google Maps list imports again: the request is built from the list id, which the share page no longer carries
- The bridge alert chimes in Alerts only, like the camera alerts
- In the Netherlands, navigation says when a movable bridge on the route is open or about to open
- The speed limit badge follows timed limits, such as 130 at night on Dutch motorways
- The website gets a privacy page, its docs section back, and a tidier look
- The project's own links come from one place and a signed push can move them (#774)
- Android Auto map parity with the phone (#763)
- More map looks: OpenFreeMap's Bright, Positron, Fiord and Dark beside Liberty (#764)
- Swipe actions on lists and history, with haptics (#765)
- Import Google Takeout's per-list CSVs (#767)
- Romanian spoken guidance (#766)
- The voice no longer says a short step's prompt twice, and a first line the turn would cut loses its sign tail (#773)
- The welcome card and the camera settings show the badges the map draws for plate and speed cameras (#776)
- The website is also published at velamaps.org
- A new website, and a press page with a downloadable press kit
- Translations: update translation files
- Translations: update Polish
- Translations: update Hebrew
- Translations: update German
- The selection bar and the welcome page use the outlined symbols
- The arrow leaves the route on the first fix that is a lane off and heading away
- Blind travel between fixes holds short of the next turn
- The Street View preview floats above the place card again
- A country, a state, a city or a postal code frames at its own zoom
- A shared Google Maps list imports whole, not its first 500 places
- The hidden pages answer ad and telemetry hosts with nothing, as the reviews panel does
- The transit Depart at time picker follows the clock setting
- A starred listing renamed from a list row keeps its lookups
- A house number typed alone keeps the suggestions near the view, the Street View tile's failure is per place, and the voice setter no longer calls itself through the prefs listener
- Rename is on an open list's selection bar for one picked place, and a renamed row on the search page shows its new name at once
- Local and English keeps to one line on labels placed along a line, and a non-Latin UI keeps its own names in every mode
- The stop's countdown starts on its leg's own figure and still reaches zero at the stop
- A list row's own menu has Rename
- Names on the map has a Local and English choice
- Google's Street View preview heads the place sheet's photo strip
- Translations: update Italian
- Translations: update German
- About says the voice is Piper on the phone, not AOSP TextToSpeech
- About has a Vela on GitHub button
- Names on the map is a setting, and the offline basemap no longer romanizes names by machine
- A stop's time is its own leg's figure, and a folded step keeps its time
- A stop reached in the same second as a turn is still said, a renamed list entry shows at once, and Home and Work open with no lookup
- Muting cuts the line being spoken again, and the car's voice switch leaves Alerts only
- Spoken directions get an Alerts only setting between On and Off, and the drive's speaker button steps through the three
- The map shows under the results of a search made while adding a stop, instead of a black screen
- A place in a list can be renamed from its sheet, not only a bookmarked one
- With spoken directions muted, the speeding and camera alerts chime instead of staying silent
- The live traffic overlay is hidden during a drive, where its tiles grew, shrank and blinked along the road
- The Guidance volume label and tiers line up with the rest of the voice card
- Guidance volume sits beside Test voice instead of under Advanced voice options
- Home and Work picked as a stop, start or destination are named Home and Work, not the business at that address
- The turn off the street into a stop's parking lot says so, even when a turn or two between the aisles follows it
- A test phone can log every spoken line with the VelaSpeak tag set to DEBUG
- Tests: the names heal refuses a detour the same-course test cannot see, and the nudge holds its street beside cross streets
- The drawn line follows long straight roads and every stretch of a long route, and a turn after a merge that said only its sign names its road
- Planning a route keeps the parking lot check off the screen's thread, and a route healed for its street names is always Google's line
- The road name under the car stays clear of the speed limit box with large text
- A stop added during a drive goes last, where the stops editor can move it
- The UK fuel job opens an issue when its source stops updating, and the security scan skips docs-only pushes
- Two turns a block apart are said together: turn right onto one street, then turn left onto the next
- A turn onto a street is named when the driver has not been told that street yet
- The route line is drawn down the middle of the road where it used to hang a lane to one side
- The turn into the destination's parking lot at the end of a trip says so when the map shows the lot there
- When the service that names a route is slow, its turns take their street names from the map tiles instead of going out bare
- A route that starts without some street names gets them during the drive instead of staying bare to the end
- A shared trip keeps its notes from the trimmed ends and says how each route got its street names
- On a trip with stops the bar also shows the whole trip, and the notification and Android Auto show the next stop
- A simulated drive waits before pulling away and follows the route when a stop is added or the stops are edited
- Simulate driving keeps a realistic pace and slows for turns, so spoken directions are no longer cut off
- The Vela voice keeps one loudness for the whole drive instead of starting loud and settling
- Opening Settings from the search page puts the keyboard away
- A stop or start from a link that cannot be found is asked about in a dialog, with a search that puts it back in its place
- Downloading a large region no longer asks first: its row already shows the size
- Translations: update Turkish
- Translations: update Romanian
- Settings > Map can choose where the map opens: where you are, where you left it, Home or a view you pick
- Texas downloads in four parts instead of one region of about 2 GB
- A picked departure or arrival time is kept when the directions sheet is swiped down and back
- A phone that has a whole region is not offered a smaller region inside it
- A catalog region can be cut out of a bigger extract
- The Vela voice plays about three times louder at Normal, and Louder and Loudest are clearly louder
- A north-up drive keeps the car in the middle of the map, so the road ahead shows whichever way it runs
- The voice says a stop is coming, on which side, and when the turn before it enters its parking lot
- On a trip with stops the navigation bar shows the time, distance and arrival for the next stop
- A directions link with stops opens on the whole trip at once and routes when every place is found
- With a large display size or large text, the drive keeps the road ahead in view and the turn card fits
- New setting "Keep north up" stops the map from turning
- A gas station with a price shows its price bubble on the map in every app language
- Ramps, forks and keeps show an arrow that points only the way to go
- Android Auto search results show gas stations' fuel prices
- UK fuel prices work in every app language, leave out the Republic of Ireland and say how old they are
- UK gas stations show their fuel prices, from the government's Fuel Finder data
- A saved place, list or route opened from Your lists is no longer hidden behind the search page
- Translations: update Kurdish (Kurmanji)
- Translations: update Italian
- Spoken directions can be brief, or only for highway exits
- Transit lines you have seen before show at once, and with no signal
- The scale bar shows the right distance
- Transit lines no longer break up on straight track between stations
- Refreshed routing files reach phones once a failed region is rebuilt, without waiting 90 days for the next bake cycle
- Delaware house numbers bake again, from the county sources
- Build jobs no longer end red for an overtaken canary build, a dead address source or a slow GitHub export
- Offline search finds names without their accents, and puts names that start with the query first
- A promotion to stable no longer fails when GitHub's release listing times out
Full changelog: v0.5.2435...v0.5.2538