Radar 3.1 Release

Summary

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.

Live French fuel prices

Every filling station in France is required by law to report its prices, and Radar now reads that feed. Nearly 9,800 stations, refreshed through the day, free like the UK prices already were.

It is a better feed than the British one in a way that matters to anyone running on gas: GPL is in the same dataset, so in France a single source covers Autogas alongside petrol and diesel. No separate LPG search, no gaps to work around.

Prices show in euro cents per litre, and Radar labels each grade the way the pump does: Gazole, SP95, SP98, E10, and E85. There was a temptation to translate those into British equivalents, and we left it alone on purpose. SP95 and SP98 are both E5 fuels, so calling either one E5 would print a grade on your screen that is not the grade on the nozzle in your hand, at the moment you are deciding which one to lift. The name you read in Radar is the name you will read on the forecourt.

Everything built on top of fuel prices comes along with it. The cheapest station on your route, the price pills on a station's details, and your fuel-cost estimate all read the currency from the place itself rather than assuming pounds and pence.

France properly on the map

France is the second country Radar holds a full local copy of the community map for. In practice that means a search in France now returns as much detail, as quickly, as a search at home: campsites, aires, dump stations, toilets, supermarkets, the lot.

Worldwide search was already free and stays free. What has changed is the depth behind it in France.

More countries coming

Portugal, Ireland and Northern Ireland, Spain, and Belgium are being brought in next, one country at a time rather than all at once. Northern Ireland is worth calling out on its own: it has never been covered by the Great Britain data, because Great Britain means England, Scotland, and Wales, so this is the first time it gets place data of its own.

The new Where in the world section sets out what sits behind a search in each country, and what you get everywhere else.

A clearer answer when a route is out of range

Route planning still covers Great Britain only, and now that Radar knows France so well you are more likely to bump into that. Ask for a route beyond Great Britain and Radar says plainly that directions stop at the coast while search and maps carry on worldwide. It used to suggest checking your start and destination, which read like you had made a mistake when you had not. See Routing.

A note on offline maps

Offline map packs are still planned as a Premium feature and will arrive with the native mobile app. They are not available yet on any platform.