It looks like a large update, with the previous feature release 6 months ago

Excerpts from the Changelog:

Map

• New: Show geofences for lab stages (UnifiedMap) - enable “Circles” in map quick settings to show them
• New: Option to set circles with individual radius to waypoints (“geofence” context menu option)
• Fix: Map view not updated when removing cache from currently shown list
• Fix: Number of cache in list chooser not updated on changing list contents
• Change: Keep current viewport on mapping a list, if all caches fit into current viewport
• New: Follow my location in elevation chart (UnifiedMap)
• New: Enable “move to” / “copy to” actions for “show as list”
• New: Support Elevate Winter theme in map downloader
• New: Adaptive hillshading, optional high quality mode (UnifiedMap Mapsforge)
• New: Redesigned routes/tracks quick settings dialog
• New: Long tap on map selection icon to select previous tile provider (UnifiedMap)
• New: Allow setting display name for offline maps in companion file (UnifiedMap)
• New: Long tap on “enable live button” to load offline caches
• New: Offline hillshading for UnifiedMap (VTM variant)
• New: Support for background maps (UnifiedMap)
• Fix: Compact icons not returning to large icons on zooming in in auto mode (UnifiedMap)
• New: Long-tap actions in cache infosheet: GC code, cache title, coordinates, personal note/hint
• Change: Switches cache infosheet long-tap for emoji selector to short tap to resolve the collision

Cache details

• New: Offline translation of listing text and logs (experimental)
• New: Option to share cache with user data (coordinates, personal note)
• Fix: Speech service interrupted on screen rotation
• Fix: Cache details: Lists for cache not updated after tapping on list name an removing that cache from that list
• Fix: User note gets lost on refreshing a lab adventure
• Change: Log-date related placeholders will use chosen date instead of current date
• New: Collapse long log entries per default

Wherigo player

• New: Integrated Wherigo player checking for missing credentials
• Change: Removed Wherigo bug report (as errors are mostly cartridge-related, need to be fixed by cartridge owner)
• New: Ability to navigate to a zone using compass
• New: Ability to copy zone center coordinates to clipboard
• New: Set zone center as target when opening map (to get routing and distance info for it)
• New: Support opening local Wherigo files
• Change: Long-tap on a zone on map is no longer recognized. This allows users to do other stuff in map zone area available on long-tap, eg: create user-defined cache
• New: Display warning if wherigo.com reports missing EULA (which leads to failing download of cartridge)

General

• New: Redesigned search page
• New: Inventory count filter
• New: Support for coordinates in DD,DDDDDDD format
• New: Show last used filter name in filter dialog
• New: Coordinate calculator: Function to replace “x” with multiplication symbol
• Fix: Incorrect altitude (not using mean above sea level)
• Fix: Nearby distance limit setting not working properly for small values
• Fix: Sorting of cache lists by distance descending not working correctly
• Fix: Lab caches excluded by D/T filter even with active “include uncertain”
• Fix: Color issues with menu icons in light mode
• New: Add “Remove past events” to list “all”
• New: Show connector for “user-defined caches” as active in source filter
• New: GPX export: exporting logs / trackables made optional
• New: Added button to delete log templates
• Fix: Importing local map file gets random map name
• Fix: Map downloader offering broken (0 bytes) files for download
• New: Added mappings for some missing OC cache types
• New: Move “recently used” lists in list selection dialog to the top on pressing “recently used” button
• New: Share list of geocodes from cache list
• Change: “Navigation (car)” etc. use “q=” parameter instead of outdated “ll=” parameter

UnifiedMap roadmap & “old” maps deprecation notice

c:geo has an all-new map implementation called “UnifiedMap” since some time, which will ultimately replace the old implementations of Google Maps and Mapsforge (OpenStreetMap). This is a deprecation notice to inform you about the further roadmap.

UnifiedMap got published about a year ago. It still supports Google Maps and OpenStreetMap (online + offline), but in a completely reworked technical way, and with a lot of exciting new features that the “old” maps do not support, some of which are

• Map rotation for OpenStreetMap based maps (online + offline)
• Cluster popup for Google Maps
• Hide map sources you don’t need
• Elevation chart for routes and tracks
• Switch between lists directly from map
• “Driving mode” for OpenStreetMap based maps

UnfiedMap has proven to be stable since quite some time, thus we will remove the old map implementations to reduce the efforts for maintaining c:geo.

Roadmap:

• “Old” maps are in deprecation mode now - we won’t fix bugs for it anymore.
• UnifiedMap will be made default for all users in fall of 2025.
• “Old” map implementations will be removed in spring 2026.

Until then, you can switch between the different implementations in settings => map sources.