Thread: [SailfishOS] Pure Maps
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New release is out: 1.22.0

As always, translations are synced and updated. Thank you all the translators!

This release requires latest Mapbox GL QML plugin (1.5.0.3), please update.

This release is the first after a large reorganization of basemap handling. Its something I envisioned early when taking over Pure Maps development and I am happy that I finally got to implement it. For map providers that are supplying maps for different conditions, the maps were grouped under provider name. This concerns now HERE, Mapbox, and OSM Scout Server. Through such grouping, Pure Maps introduces the following features:

- automatic switch of map type according to your current task (exploring map, route preview, or navigation), daytime, vehicle.

You could still select specific map and examine which map is selected through basemap selector (find a new button on a map). Notice that the selector, when open, is possibly shown not fully on your screen and you can scroll in it. In addition, corresponding zoom selection is shown on the bottom of your screen when the basemap selector is open.

Basemap selector is lacking few icons, see my previous message regarding them. Looking forward for contributions

Since HERE and Mapbox support a large selection of languages, language selector has been added to Preferences, under "General". At the same location you could specify whether you want to switch map types automatically and whether you want light/dark maps to be swapped according to the Sun at your location.

Note that not all languages, day/night combinations are available. In that case, map will be selected according to implemented fallback mechanism. Notable absentees: Mapbox default and terrain maps don't have dark equivalent; HERE does not support Japanese.

While I haven't worked on routing this time much, your recent routes are now shown on routing page. That allows you to recalculate previous route fast.

There have been several changes in Kirigami implementation. It now requires yet unreleased version of Kirigami to be able to show page stack related to search and other activities pinned separately on the right of the map. This is when you are in a wide mode, as on desktop or, possibly, landscape oriented phone. I will prepare flatpak with the corresponding release, but it may take a bit of a time to package all correctly.
 

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