26 Aug 2024, 11:34

Hi all! ๐Ÿ‘‹

This week, we got a lovely update for MyRoute-app coming your way ๐ŸŽ‰

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A massive shoutout to Joost is well deserved ๐Ÿ™‚ He works in the dark to serve the light! And he definitely brings to light to all MRA users with this update. After a lot of technical coding โŒจ we are proud to present this smashing 4.3.0 update: project Sync! ๐Ÿ˜

Sync all your routes

Sync? What is sync? According to the oxford dictionary:

in (or out of) sync working well (or badly) together; in (or out of) agreement.

With this update, the app will sync well with the website.
Meaning that all your routes will be magically synced across both platforms ๐Ÿ˜ฎ ๐Ÿ’ฅ

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You can sync all your routes or choose an individual route to be synced.
When a route (or all for that matter) is marked as syncable, any changes made to that route in the app, will be uploaded to the website. Or when the route is modified on the website, it will be automatically updated on your phone ๐Ÿ˜
By doing so, all your routes will be available in the app all the time and most important of all, they are up to date ๐ŸŽ‰

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Therefore the downloads folder now no longer contains your own routes.
You also can't download your own routes as you were used to. Just sync them and you are ready to go!
Groups / events / friends are not synced or available offline by default. You will still need to download these yourself and yes, they can be found in your downloads.

Conflict handling

What if you made changes in the app and on the website? How do we select the right one to save? We don't! You do ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Conflicts are automatically detected and you are forced to resolve these in the app.

Restyling information screen

To facilitate the offline availability of all your routes, the information screen has been modified too!

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A cleaner look and besides that the following options have been added:

  • Share link to route
  • Show QR code for easy access
  • Mark route to be synced
  • Delete

Map styles navigation

This one will make a lot of people very, very happy!

The HERE map lacked some detail. Sad but true ๐Ÿ˜ž
A weird development how all major map suppliers changed their colour scheme to be less rich in contrast.

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Head over to the map styling section and be amazed! We offer 3 different colour themes and 6 editions! Are you oriented on logistical roads, we got your back! ๐Ÿ˜ Want to use the old colour scheme? Try out "Wong" ๐Ÿ˜‰

Map configuration

We all enjoy styling / customising the map. More settings have been added! ๐ŸŽ‰

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  • Allow showing elevation differences in map (only for explore & topographic)
  • Change width / opacity of the displayed lines ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
  • Change scaling of POI icons shown on the map ๐Ÿ’ฅ
  • Larger range of allowed zoom / tilt adjustments

Elevation difference? Is that noticeable?

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Oh hell yeah! ๐ŸŽ‰ (old / 3d / 2d). I mean, just look at it ๐Ÿ˜

Improvements generated routes

Did you ever generate a nice route? Did you ever want to save / share that? I guess both apply to you but you could never achieve the second ๐Ÿ˜ข
An issue that is no more!

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Generate a route and with the touch of a button, you can share the same configuration to your buddy. As this is a QR code, we expect the person that scans it, to be in the same location as you ๐Ÿ˜‰
If not, just save the route! Then you can share the route and it will work too.

Minor changes

  • Improved Spanish translations thanks to active MRA user Ramon C.L. โค
  • GPX files can be uploaded to MRA simply by opening them with the app
  • You can now switch between imperial and metric directly from the app
  • Fixed issue where some users could not use the search
  • Fixed issue that caused people from Luxemburg to not be able to save their tracklog
  • General textual improvements
  • Added information popups to complicated settings
  • HERE SDK updated to newest version

Wrapup

If this isn't a great update, I don't know what else we can do!
Hopefully you all enjoy this update. After this update we will do another iteration concerning the app stability. Minor new features will also be added such as automatically starting your route at the nearest marker or locking your screen ๐Ÿ™‚

Cheers,
Corjan