1.0.1 bug fix release and v2 tiling continues

Bugs and post-release stuff

It seems that some things behave a bit different between dev and prod so we needed to address some features with this bugfix release.

Non of the major features were broken but we are talking about missing assets and such.

Appearance

We thought that web development was difficult for the reason that the web page gets used by several different browsers and devices, even same browser behave very much differently on different platforms or devices.

However, just with one mobile phone, you can make pretty drastic changes on how you want the stuff to be presented to you and this is in the same device, same model, same browser.

User having dark mode, or dark appearance, activated was seeing black text on black background due to poorly made colour decision.

Similar problem with another user has max text size combined with display zoom and lets say that there were some difficulties placing elements in a form correctly.

Fix

This is exactly what QA is for and we admit, we rushed the first released.

Xcode will give you excellent tools combating both of these scenarios mentioned above. The build-in preview will let you see the view in dark appearance and with a lot of different combinations of zoom/text size tweaks on. So there is no excuse for this.

This is the kind of stuff that makes Xcode a very impressive piece of software, how it streamlines with the target device.

Quick v2 update: Tiles are being placed on the globe

Our data is getting crunched to a more favourable format and we expect to be able to start testing with it next week. There will likely be separate elevation query tool update in the near future which will allow you to experience the terrain in full 3d and then the rest of the stuff in the v2 roadmap much later.

It feels to us that this 3d map explorer is such a center tool in this space to improve the accuracy and experience of the tool that we want to roll it out as soon as possible. It is unbelievable how it opens the world you already know to a different kind of exploration from birds eye perspective. You can rediscovers some places you never knew were like that or even remind yourself of some old things that you haven’t seen in a while. Now fully explorable.

Once the new map tool is released, we will take a breather, and do a write up of the GIS process involved, for all the geeks out there, who knows, maybe you want to do something like this yourself?