34 posts tagged with "Rider app"

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.

Until now, switching an event to live changed one word on the console and nothing else. Now it starts the ride: the roster is in one group ride on the event's route, the organisers are reached when a rider who agreed raises an SOS, and at the end each rider can hand their own ride back to the event.

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.

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.

The routing graph used to stop at Tarifa. It now crosses the Strait of Gibraltar and runs down the Atlantic road to Dakar, east along the Sahara to the Nile, and on into Arabia. Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritania and Senegal also come as offline country packs on the phone.

The turn-by-turn map used to hold a single zoom from start to finish. On a bicycle in Bergen that meant a view too far out to read the next junction, and after a glance ahead the map stayed where you left it until you tapped recenter. On the phone, and on CarPlay and Android Auto, the navigation camera now works it out for itself.

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.