The datasets behind the maps
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The Street-level photos layer in the desktop planner now draws one thin line per road once you are zoomed in to street level, in place of the cameras' own GPS tracks. A road that was driven five times is one line; a track that drifted into the harbour is gone. Click the line as before and the nearest picture opens.
The desktop planner has a new layer and a new widget, Street-level photos. Drag the 📸 camera onto the map, or switch the layer on and click one of its thin lines, and you see the picture a contributor took there. V does the same at the cross in the middle of the map. Google's own Street View is one click away, in a new tab, facing the same way.
The weather layers (rain, gusts, temperature, visibility) and the weather along a route now cover all of Africa and Arabia, not only Europe and the north of Morocco.
Search for Twisty roads near the Tizi n'Tichka and the N9 over the pass is now on the list, with the RP1506 beside it. Mixed adds the RP2016.
The curvy roads search used to stop at the Mediterranean. Ask it for roads near the Tizi n'Tichka and it found nothing. Now it finds the N9 over the pass, the RP2016 and RP1506 beside it, and the unnamed mountain roads in between.
Since the routing graph crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, a route in Morocco has known its roads but not its gates: a private gate on a track near Ouarzazate came back as "unknown, not found in OSM". Now it comes back closed, with its OSM node, and the route goes around it.
The desktop's Library has a new entry on its rail, Links. It leads to the catalogue of what signed-in riders may see, and to the reference data the planner knows: curvy roads, dirt passages, MTB trails, beaches and the trail library. Whatever you find there, Save to library keeps a copy of it.
The FastGIS catalogue now answers a sentence. "Strade bianche vicino a Petina" returns the 58 dirt passages around Petina; "grusveier rundt Voss" returns 285 gravel roads around Voss; "the gates I reported in the Salerno province around the first week of September" finds your own gate reports in that province, in a window a few days wider than the week you remembered. It is live on the API today, for developers; a search box in the apps comes next.
Two days ago the rain overlay was a still picture from someone else's tile server. Today the Map tab carries a weather timeline of our own — radar, nowcast and forecast; rain, wind gusts, temperature and visibility; snow, thunder and wind direction on top — pan-European, with 1 km detail in the Nordics, and the same numbers printed under every stop of a planned route. This post is the whole of it in one place.
Two more answers on the weather timeline, closing the hazards set that started this morning with snow and thunder: the gust layer now says from where it blows, and a fourth layer says how far you can see.