Radar 3.3 Release

Summary

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.

Eight areas, end to end

Radar now holds its own copy of the map for Great Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Portugal. A search in any of them comes back as quickly, and in as much detail, as a search at home. The usual routes across western Europe are covered end to end rather than in patches.

Two are worth calling out.

Northern Ireland has place data for the first time. Great Britain means England, Scotland and Wales, so Northern Ireland had never been part of the British map data. It is in now, and because the island comes as one piece, the Republic of Ireland arrived with it. Road restrictions followed: low bridges and weight limits now cover the whole island as well as Great Britain. Route planning is the exception and has not caught up, so a route in Belfast or Dublin is still not available.

Germany is the largest map Radar has taken on, larger than France, and the whole country is searched from our own copy.

Searching anywhere in the world was already free and stays free. What changes is the depth behind it.

Aires: a fix and a lot more of them

Aires now come back everywhere Radar has the map. Radar had been asking the open map for aires in a way that never matched anything, so outside the Forestry and Land Scotland Stay the Night car parks the category came back empty, in England and Wales as well as abroad. France, where stopovers are everywhere, was showing none at all. That is fixed.

France has thousands more of them. France's national tourism database, which gathers what every regional tourist board publishes, adds around 3,340 aires de camping-car on top of the ones on the open map. They are largely different places, only about one in five was already there, so it roughly doubles what a search for a stopover in France turns up. Most carry the season they are open, a price and whether there is a service point, and many have a phone number or a website.

Dump stations now include the ones that belong to a site. Plenty of places to empty are not marked as a facility in their own right, they are recorded as part of a campsite or an aire. Searching for a dump station used to miss all of those, which was most of them.

Clean air zones in France

Most large French cities now have a zone à faibles émissions, an area you may only drive into if your vehicle carries a good enough Crit'Air sticker, with a fine if it does not. Radar shades those zones on the map, free, from the government's own national register.

Tap a zone for the minimum sticker for each type of vehicle, the hours it applies, and links to the city's own information page and the legal order behind it. The van and motorhome line is listed first, because it is routinely a different answer from the one for cars and it is the line most Radar users need. Zones that have not started yet are drawn faded and labelled, so a zone opening in eight months does not read as a restriction today.

Radar shows what the city published rather than telling you whether you personally may drive in, so check the official link before you rely on it.

Live pump prices in Spain

Spanish stations now show live prices, from the energy ministry's own feed, refreshed every 30 minutes across around 11,400 stations. Like France, it includes GLP, so one source covers Autogas as well as petrol and diesel, and the grades are listed by the names on the pump: Gasóleo A, Gasolina 95, Gasolina 98 and GLP.

Live prices now cover the UK, France and Spain. Everywhere else you will still find the filling stations, just not what they are charging today.

The Data sources page, rebuilt

The Data sources page is now built from the same live list Radar itself searches, so nothing is missing from it and every source is named properly wherever it appears: on the page, in the filters and on a result's details. It also now shows what feeds the map layers, hazards, floods and clean air zones, not just the search categories.

The source filters follow you. The sources you can tick are narrowed to the ones covering the part of the world you are looking at, so it stays a short, relevant list in France instead of a wall of British feeds that would find nothing there.

The documentation has the matching list: every source Radar draws on, the ones that work everywhere and the ones that belong to a single country, with how current each one is.

Still to come

Route planning still covers Great Britain only, on both plans. Places in Germany or Portugal do not mean directions there.

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