BoatSpeedy

New

• wozise.de on the About page: at the bottom next to the copyright, tap to open the site.

Fixed

• Rain radar reworked. The weather map opens at about 150 km instead of street zoom and shows Germany without a GPS fix, before it stayed empty. Each loop belongs to one DWD forecast run and reaches +2 h, rain no longer jumps. A new run loads in the background and only then replaces the old one. Loads faster, with a progress bar. Rain is slightly transparent with round outlines, strong cells keep their level.
• Canoe: closed river stretches are portaged. A stretch tagged canoe=no or access=no counts like a weir. With a landing before and after it, the route carries from one to the other, even without a mapped portage path. Before, it ended there as a straight line, for example at the old Zeiss weir in Saalfeld. A bare boat=no does not count.

This release on GitHub

Changed

• Mill and side channels are closed to routing for canoe and motorboat: waterways named "Lache" or ending in it, such as "Mühllache", often mapped as a canal without any tags. Only an explicit boat=yes or canoe=yes (motorboat=yes for a motorboat) opens them. English mill channels ("leat", "mill race") alike.

This release on GitHub

New

• Save, share and follow routes. The bookmark on the route display saves the route, optionally with a name. Trips, tab Routes, with map, length, locks and craft. Navigate leads to the start with a dashed line and then along the course, for recorded trips and round trips too.
• Names for trips and routes, large with the date below. GPX carries them.
• Arrange the dashboard: hold a tile still for three seconds, then move it, hide it or resize the map. Trip and GPS are tiles of their own.
• Current and power in the track while a battery is connected.
• Motorboat or canoe as position marker, Navigation in the main menu, map server selectable.

Changed

• The app stays in portrait
• Route calculation about twice as fast
• By canoe, mapped portage paths come first, power plant canals are a last resort
• Each weir counts once if you pass through it or portage around it

Fixed

• Routes through lakes broke off (Müritz), the course through the lake was missing from the map data
• Egress points tagged canoe=egress were missing
• Without a fix an old speed often stuck on the speedometer
• The track stopped after 10,000 points, and every position was recorded twice
• Energy and efficiency were missing after GPX export and import
• Symbols lay underneath route and track

This release on GitHub

New

• Portage. In a canoe the route goes around the weir: along the portage paths from OpenStreetMap or, where there are none, from landing to landing. Green dashed, with the distance in the box.
• Put-ins, egress points and slipways from zoom 13, tappable.
• Hydro power plants get their own symbol. The route no longer runs through the turbines.

Changed

• A weir no longer blocks the route, it costs. With no way around, the route goes through and says so
• Only weirs the route actually crosses are counted
• In canoe mode a canal costs more than a river, so mill races lose against the river loop

Fixed

• Weirs mapped as a way across the river were missing entirely, nearly half of them in Germany
• Routes starting above a weir failed
• Portage was often skipped although put-in and egress are mapped

versionCode 47. Refresh the map tiles so weirs and landings arrive.

This release on GitHub

New

• Locks, weirs and bridge clearances on the map from zoom 11, even without a route
• Bridges with a clearance height get their own tappable symbol above the route
• Flow direction on rivers from zoom 14, plus upstream and downstream of the route
• **Chambers tagged only seamark:type=lock_basin** are included

Fixed

• The lock symbol sat on a gate instead of the middle of the chamber
• Double locks: each chamber has its own symbol with its size

versionCode 45. Refresh the map tiles.

This release on GitHub

New

Offer development builds (developer settings). The update check then also considers the rolling dev build. Off by default.

Changed

• Speed signs come from the downloaded tiles instead of Overpass. The values were already there; the map needs no connection for them.
• The location gate stands only in front of the speedometer. Trips, GPX import and the battery need no GPS and are reachable without it.
• Notifications are asked for when a trip starts, not when the app starts.
• Lock hours are listed one rule per line.

Fixed

• Lock gates caught the tap and showed "gate" instead of the lock details
• Hours under service_times were ignored; three of four locks on the lower Unstrut had none
• The update check said "up to date" on a development build
• "Approximate" location led back to the same gate without a word
• Compass directions and two screen-reader labels were hard-coded in German

versionCode 43. Refresh the map tiles so the lock hours arrive.

This release on GitHub

New

Navigation. Set a destination on the map: straight line or a route along the waterways, with distance and estimated draw. Load map data onto the device, then route offline up to 600 km. Craft type, motorboat or canoe, decides which bans apply; blocked stretches are drawn in red.

Locks and weirs on the route. Tap a lock for hours, phone, VHF channel and chamber size. Seamarks are tappable, speed signs show their number.

Map north up or course up, switched from the title bar. Marker and map glide instead of jumping from fix to fix.

Weather screen with rain radar, readings from the nearest DWD station and wind direction.

Coulometer with a Hall sensor for packs without Bluetooth of their own.

Fixed

• Routing broke at tile edges where a river left the rectangle between start and destination (Main at Frankfurt, Saale at Merseburg)
• boat=no blocked canoes too, though it is aimed at engines
• The map turned in steps and the arrow pointed the wrong way while it did
• Outdated tiles were never offered
• "No continuous waterway" never said why

versionCode 41. Installs over 1.3.4 and over DEV builds.

This release on GitHub