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Radar 3.2 Release

Richard Brown
Richard Brown
CTO & Founder

Summary​

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.

Spain and Belgium properly on the map​

Four countries now have the full treatment: Great Britain, France, Spain, and Belgium. In practice that means a search in any of them returns the same depth of detail, at the same speed, as a search at home: campsites, aires, dump stations, drinking water, toilets, supermarkets, laundry, the lot.

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

Spain is the first country to share land borders with two others Radar already knew, France on one side and Portugal on the other, and Belgium borders France too. Places that sit right on a border used to have two plausible homes in our data. Radar now settles that on its own after every update, so a service on the frontier appears once, in one country, rather than twice or not at all.

Live prices are still the UK and France​

Worth being clear about, because place data and price data now cover different ground. In Spain and Belgium you will find the filling stations, but not what they are charging today. Live forecourt prices remain the UK and France only.

Route planning is a separate question again, and it still covers Great Britain only. Places in Spain or Belgium do not mean directions there. See Routing.

Data sources grouped by where they apply​

The Data sources page used to be one long list. It is now grouped by the part of the world each source covers, worldwide sources first, then country by country. Same information, licence, cost, and refresh rate for every source, but you can now see in one glance which of them will actually be working for you on a given trip.

See Data sources and Where in the world.

Still to come​

Portugal and Ireland and Northern Ireland are next in line. Northern Ireland is worth calling out on its own: Great Britain means England, Scotland, and Wales, so Northern Ireland has never been part of the British map data, and this will be the first time it gets place data of its own.

Smaller things​

  • The home page is clearer about what an account is for. Everything core works signed out, on your device. You need to sign in to carry saved places and settings across devices, and to post or review community places.

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.