Location sharing. If you have a Nomad van with Tracking switched on, you can now send somebody a link that shows where the vehicle is, right now, on a map. They do not need a Sensa account. It is free, it lasts as long as you say, and you can stop it from your phone.
The phone map gets its screen back. Search moves off the map and into its own tab, everything floating over the map steps aside while you drag it, and the map now runs the full height of the screen. Radar also stops asking you to choose data sources and chooses them for you.
Scotland gains two things at once: its four Low Emission Zones, which are a ban rather than a charge, and 945 of its nature reserves and country parks. Radar also stops being purely practical, with three new categories for the places you actually drove there to see.
Radar now opens by asking what you want to do, and shows you the handful of categories that go with the answer instead of all 46 at once. Alongside that: toll gates on the map in every country we cover, severe weather warnings for Spain, Switzerland's protected areas, ferry terminals as a category of their own, and EV chargers that finally work outside Britain.
Radar Premium is now on sale, with a 7 day free trial. Until today the only ways to have it were a Nomad campervan, ten approved community contributions in a month, or a grant from us. You can now subscribe directly, monthly or yearly, and try it first without paying anything.
Radar 5.0 is the phone release. The app has been rebuilt around the screen most people actually use it on, with tabs along the bottom, a results sheet you pull up over the map, and every control large enough to hit with a thumb. Alongside that: London's ULEZ, LEZ and Congestion Charge and the Bath and Bristol Clean Air Zones on the map, what3words addresses in the search box, and seven more countries with the full local map.
Radar 4.0 adds a new map layer: roadworks, closures, accidents and the things blocking the road, for the Netherlands and France, with planned work shown up to a month ahead. Fuel prices can now be converted into your own money for a trip abroad, and the Radar screen in a Nomad van gets a set of improvements for use on the move.
Radar 3.3 finishes western Europe. Portugal, Ireland and Northern Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany join the countries Radar holds a full copy of the map for, taking it to eight. On top of that, France gets thousands of aires it did not have and its clean air zones on the map, Spain gets live pump prices, and a long-standing bug that made aires come back empty outside Scotland is fixed.
Radar 3.2 adds two more countries to the map. Spain and Belgium now sit alongside Great Britain and France as places Radar holds a full local copy of, so a search in Girona or Ghent comes back as full and as fast as a search at home. The Data sources page has been regrouped by region to match, so you can tell at a glance what applies where you are heading.
Radar 3.1 takes it across the Channel. France now has live forecourt prices and the same depth of place data the UK has always had, so a search in Normandy comes back as full and as fast as a search in Norfolk. Portugal, Ireland and Northern Ireland, Spain, and Belgium are next in line.