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Radar 1.0.0 Beta 7 Release

Richard Brown
Richard Brown
CTO & Founder

Summary​

Release Notes for this release of Sensa Radar.

Highlights​

  • Multi-stop routes — click any place to add it as a waypoint
  • Trip mode with live turn-by-turn, voice, and auto re-route
  • Route elevation profile and max-gradient detour
  • Per-station fuel prices along the route
  • Saved places now have categories and a dedicated map layer

Included in this release​

The routing release. Planning and driving a motorhome-friendly route is now a complete flow, from picking the stops to hearing the next turn announced through your phone.

  • Multi-stop routes — plan routes with intermediate stops between origin and destination. Click any place on the map and press "Add as stop", or type a postcode in the new "Add stop" row inside the Route planner card. Waypoints appear as numbered amber pins on the map and in a removable list in the card. Up to eight stops per route.
  • Start / end by typing — alongside tapping the map, both the desktop and mobile route planner now accept a postcode or place name. The resolved address is stored with the point, so you can see what you typed in the slot.
  • Trip mode — once a route is planned, a Start button on the planner card puts the map into active-trip mode: the map follows your GPS, the header shows a live "X km · Y min to go" countdown, and a blue banner announces the next turn ("In 250 m — turn left onto A24"). An End button exits back to the static route.
  • Turn-by-turn voice — an optional speaker toggle during a trip announces each maneuver through your phone, with a pre-alert at ~250 m and the instruction itself at the turn. Your voice preference is remembered between sessions.
  • Auto re-route — if you drift more than 100 m from the route for two GPS fixes in a row, Radar recalculates from your current position, keeping your stops and destination intact.
  • Route elevation and gradient profile — every planned route now comes back with an elevation chart (gain, descent, max grade) and the polyline on the map tints amber / orange / red on steep sections so you can see the shape of the climb at a glance.
  • Max-gradient detour — set your own ceiling on the Vehicle profile (default 20 %, bounds 5–45 %) and Radar will route around edges steeper than that. The card reports "N hazards and M steep sections" and offers a "Show steep route anyway" button if you want to see it regardless.
  • Vehicle mpg field — Settings → Vehicle profile has a new "Average (mpg)" field. Saved for future fuel-cost and range features.
  • Cheapest fuel station is clickable — tapping the cheapest-fuel station name on the route card recentres the map on it.
  • Per-station fuel prices — every fuel station along your route shows a small price badge for the fuel type set in your profile. The cheapest on route keeps its pink highlight pill.
  • Saved places — a "category" can now be assigned to any saved place. /places groups them by category when no filter is active, a new search + category filter narrows the list, and the header "Jump to place" popup is grouped and searchable.
  • "My places" map layer — a fourth toggleable layer alongside Places / Hazards / Floods, rendering your saved places with their category colour and emoji (Home and Work get house and briefcase icons; Uncategorised places get a bookmark glyph).
  • Saved-places cap is tier-aware — Lite users can save 100 places, Pro users can save 1000.
  • Bookmark preserves category — saving a place from a map popup now carries the popup's category through, so it lands in the right section of /places.
  • Address backfill on saved places — places saved without an address (e.g. OS Greenspace parks) are reverse-geocoded server-side so they show a readable address everywhere, not just coordinates.
  • Mobile polish — mobile "Add stop" collapses into a compact pill that expands when tapped; header pills restyled to match the floating FAB controls so everything reads as one family; the mobile route planner card now has an explicit close button.

Bug Fixes​

  • Route planner only surfaces hazards and steep sections that are actually near the final route, not along the original straight-line corridor.
  • "From Home" / "To Home" chips in the route planner show the place name in the slot, not raw coordinates.
  • Place popups show an address for sources that don't supply one (OS Greenspace parks and similar) by lazy-loading a reverse-geocoded address.
  • Saving a bookmark from a map popup refreshes the Places popup and /places immediately — no reload required.
  • Saved Places popup no longer overflows off-screen on narrow viewports.
  • /list "Type of place" respects the category from the popup link so it doesn't silently default to "Pub".
  • Postcode search field stays filled with the query that produced the current results after a reload.

Breaking changes​

None.

Upgrade notes​

There is no upgrade path as Radar is a hosted application.

Known issues​

  • Maneuver icons in the turn-by-turn banner are text-only for now; arrow glyphs will follow.
  • ETA countdown is calculated from route duration and remaining distance; no live-traffic weighting is applied.

This release is recommended for:

  • Any beta tester of Sensa Radar
  • None