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Phase 3: High Customization
Mar, 31, 2024
- Apple Watch support for accessing surrounding callouts and controlling beacons without using iPhone.
- Pin markers to the top for quick access to frequently used markers.
- Include category information, web links, and telephone numbers for Points of Interest.
- Automatically stop the beacon after moving away is detected.
- Virtual Location Explorer allows teleporting between intersections and places.
- Call out markers and places ahead, as well as intersections nearby and ahead. Exclude unnamed roads from
intersections.
- Numerous UI enhancements, such as waking up by pressing the play button on the headphone, a mute all button on
the home page, double-tap to hear GPS information, a quick button to delete the last breadcrumb marker, removing
marker prefix accessibility label in the Markers tab, creating a route directly to a marker or place, and
location monitoring improvements.
Phase 2: More New Features
Dec, 23, 2023
- Different speech speed in vehicle and on foot
- Split on/off for intersection and transportation
- Overture map data: California 1.4M, Germamy 3M, United Kingdom 2.5M, Japan 2M
- Open street map tram stop data
- Places offline searching and marker filtering
- Wizard style UI for turn-by-turn navigation parameters
- Alert distance setting for each marker individually
- Degrees direction stylee
- Nudge marker location
- Option to disable beacon sound effect
- GPS information callouts
Phase 1: New Features After Resurrection
Oct, 27, 2023
- Transitioned the user interface style from Windows Phone to iOS, including avoiding the use of a tab
bar for providing actions.
- Integrated more place data from Apple Maps to provide users with additional location information and
options.
- Introduced the ability to manually trigger the "Hear Intersection Ahead" command on the first tab or hear
about the next intersection while in a vehicle.
- Enabled turn-by-turn navigation instructions for a single audio beacon or a route with numerous waypoints.
- Implemented street name callouts to help users become familiar with the region, even indicating the house
number they are located near.
- Expanded the range of methods for creating or importing routes, including generating them using a navigation
algorithm or importing from a GPX file, with the most popular method being the Breadcrumb waypoints mode.
- Provided additional methods for creating or importing markers, such as pasting them from Apple Maps or
importing from a GPX file.
- Introduced the option to add reverse waypoints for a new route or append reverse waypoints to make the route
circular.
- Implemented adaptive callout frequency for the distance to the beacon, similar to a radar, resulting in more
frequent callouts when nearing the destination.
- Added callouts for the distance and relative direction to points of interest or beacons, with the option to
use clock relative direction.
- Expanded the availability of Siri shortcuts for the most commonly used commands, including "Start Route."
- Introduced more assistant commands for quick access to commonly used features, such as marking or sharing
the current location.
- Published a list of frequently asked questions on the website for user convenience.
Microsoft Soundscape Resurrection
Jun, 29, 2023
Microsoft discontinued the project Soundscape and made it open-source.
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Map data from OpenStreetMap are licensed by Open Database License (ODbL).
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