Every barrier on your route says what it is

A route across Europe crosses barriers: booms, gates, ticket booths. Until now the app drew almost all of them as the same gate. Now each one says what it is, with its own symbol, and a tap tells you what the mappers wrote about it.

Eight kinds, eight symbols

• Winter or storm closure, a snowflake: a boom that closes in blizzards, or a road shut for the winter months.
• Roadworks, a cone.
• Ferry or port, a boat: the ticket booths, port gates and ramp booms within 1.5 km of a ferry crossing on your route.
• Border crossing, a flag over a boom. Border controls are now listed too; the route check used to skip them.
• Private or farm gate, a gate with a padlock.
• Toll, bollard and gate keep their familiar symbols.

A barrier that is several of these at once, like the ferry's ticket booths that are also a toll, shows two stacked cards. The colours keep their meaning: white with an amber ring when you can pass, red when it is closed.

What a tap says

Tap a barrier on the map, or tap the barrier line in the planner to list them all, and you get the kilometre, every kind it is, and the note the mappers left in OpenStreetMap, as they wrote it, often in the local language. Opening hours and conditions such as closed in snowstorms come with it. Navigation announces each one by its kind: "Winter closure barrier in 300 m", "Border crossing in 300 m".

On a ride from Bergen to Eboli that means three winter booms in Sirdal, four ferry barriers at Kristiansand, Hirtshals and the Elbe, the German–Austrian border, and a roadworks boom on the Brenner motorway. Before, that was eight gates.

For developers: each item of a route's barriers block now carries kind, kinds, kind_from and note; see the routing API reference.