Version 2.1: 12/7/2010 - improved route recalculation timing and logic - improved speed estimation calculation - new Panoramio image search results with multiple images per row - new settings user interface that handles screen rotations and iPad resolution - fixed full postcode search in UK/USA - fixed keyboard appearance and rotation issues - search speed improvement for iPad search bar - improved set route start usage on iPad - iOS 4.0: background navigation deactivation if device is stationary for 30 minutes to save battery life - fixed contact search crash - fixed compass target orientation - fixed gps accuracy indicator - fixed display icons issue Version 2.0: 22/6/2010 - Implemented iOS4 background turn by turn navigation - Download of OpenStreetMap data enabled - Offline routing for driving, walking or cycling - Offline route types are customizable by speed/weight - Offline point of interest search - Offline street search - Implemented the offline catalog - Fixed: jumping of the route path during map scrolling - Fixed: wrong way warning & route recalculation timing - New layer: Yelp to search for Yelp reviews in map area - New layer: Foursquare see who is checked in the area - New layer: Twitter to see who is tweeting in the area - Twitter: tell your location via Twitter - Facebook: tell your location via Facebook - Fixed: display update of remaining time / distance - Implemented an improved message box Version 2.0 for iPad: 21/6/2010 - See above - Adjusted the interface to have the best possible user experience on the iPad - New toolbar with easy setting of navigation start location, navigation destination location, map type popover, route type popover and search field - A poweful and fast search bar result popover to find streets and point of interests combined - Show Wikipedia articles and Panoramio images in full iPad screen resolution Version 1.8: 21/4/2010 - 43 new high quality text to speech voices available as in app purchases - User interface translated and text to speech voices in 22 languages: US English (5 voices), British English (3 voices), German, Italian, French, Canadian French, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Czech, Polish, Arabic, Turkisch, Greek, Brazilian, Russian. - implemented Google geocoder to better find precise addresses by street number. - estimating the bearing on the iPhone 3G without compass is harder than you think. We removed the code to check if you are following the path in reverse. Now you will never hear the message "You are going the wrong way" while following the path. - for visually impaired users of the iPhone 3GS we added an angle to rotate callout just after a route has been calculated. Head North -60. means you should first turn 60 degrees counterclockwise and then proceed. Option needs to be activated in the iPhone VoxTrek Settings/Say Heading Angle. - various fixes implemented to avoid crashes.. Version 1.6: 5/3/2010 - complete redesign of the user interface to allow dynamic parameter changes like the map type or the color/width of the path but meanwhile continue the navigation without having to recalculate the route! - maps work now full screen. The upper navigation bar has been removed. The tab bar has been removed - added Microsoft Bing road, satellite and hybrid maps - added Yahoo road and satellite maps - fixed Google satellite download - added new shortest route type and a new car icon - fixed crash searching by street number - map cache speed improved when working offline - Improved the route summary to cycle through the route instructions - Added a roundabout icon. The number inside the icon indicates the exit to take on the roundabout - added left-right driving country rules to show the roundabout icon in the right rotation direction - current location street number and street are spoken to help visually impaired users while discovering a new neighbourhood - fixed the screen locking to display the route continuously - fixed bookmark repositioning - current location reactivates automatically when settings or another view was used - precise map scale added that displays the real distance of the horizontal line that divides the map into two. Works only in 2D map view. - fixed the snapping of the map center to the path to avoid map jitters - when a route can not be determined then show an arrow indicating the direction of the destination and distance,speed and ETA - the street number after a contact address street is moved in front of the address before geocoding the address. - added roadblocks functionality. Indicate in bookmarks if a road is bocked by toggling the switch roadblock. See on the map where are your roads blocked by displaying bookmarks on the map. Road navigation calculations will avoid roadblocks. - driving navigation calculation takes into account the initial heading of your car. This helps calculating the route when you are on a highway. It also helps when your vehicle is bearing in the wrong way to indicate where to make a U-turn . -new menu system with icons to allow using more tool buttons - fixes to the tile engine to make the download of maps rock solid. Impossible to confuse the tile loader when zooming very rapidly and requesting 200 tiles to be download. - added internet online/offline status icon. It turns into an exclamation mark if Internet is dropped. Version 1.4 : 1/1/2010 - improved current location determination. The settings screen is now usable. If you set the minimum accuracy to 100m VoxTrek will quickly find a location close to you upto 100m. - fixed the navigation location determination when navigating to a point of interest selected from the POI catalog (previously only the north pole was shown) - Google Maps and Terrain are displayed properly now. This is mainly for countries where OpenStreetMaps are incomplete. Our friends in Japan will be very happy now. - speed calculation corrected - text to speech improved to handle roundabout directions - added Start Navigation menu item from the current location map. Just center the map to a destination location,select menu tools/start navigation and a route is calculated from the current location to the destination location. Version 1.3 : 25/12/2010 - fixed the issue to update the current location on the map - improved search capabilities to allow searching Japanese streets names, cities - path is fully drawn when scrolling the map (performance is slow for very long journeys). When navigation is resumed after 10 seconds an optimized fast path is redrawn. - POI search results from the current location are sorted by distance - Added many POI search categories - User Manual updated on www.voxtrek.com |
