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Radar 1.2 Release

Richard Brown
Richard Brown
CTO & Founder

Summary​

Radar 1.2 is the first full release after the beta series. It brings together everything built during the betas, finding places, planning routes, trip mode, saved places, and community contributions, and adds the changes below.

New in 1.2​

  • Worldwide search is now free. Looking for places anywhere in the world no longer needs Premium.
  • Live fuel prices are free, and shown correctly. Prices now display properly on every screen.
  • Vehicle-aware routing is now Premium. Plain A-to-B routing with turn-by-turn directions stays free for everyone.
  • Sign in with your Sensa account. Use the same Sensa account you use elsewhere, set up alongside your Radar account in one step.
  • The tiers are now called Base (free) and Premium.

Everything in Radar​

Finding places​

  • Search near a postcode or your location, with an adjustable radius from half a mile up to 60 miles.
  • 30+ amenity categories across eight groups, from fuel and toilets to campsites and pharmacies.
  • Results ranked nearest-first, with filters by category and by source.
  • Rich detail on each result: live fuel prices, food-hygiene ratings, EV connector types, and parking limits.

Routing​

  • Plan an A-to-B route with turn-by-turn directions, free and without an account.
  • Set your start, destination, and up to eight stops by tapping the map, typing a postcode, or picking a saved place.
  • Add any place to your route as a stop straight from its popup.
  • See the elevation and gradient of the route, with steep sections marked.
  • With Premium, the vehicle profile routes around low bridges and weight, width, and length limits, checks whether you fit at parking and overnight stops, and avoids gradients steeper than your chosen limit.

Trip mode​

  • Press Start to enter live navigation: the map follows you, with a distance and time countdown and a next-turn banner.
  • Optional spoken directions through your device, with a pre-alert before each turn.
  • If you come off route, Radar works out a new one automatically, keeping your stops and destination.

Saved places​

  • Bookmark any place from its popup, with its category carried across.
  • Give each saved place a category, and browse them all on the Saved places page with search and filtering.
  • Pin a Home and a Work for one-tap routing.
  • Show your saved places as their own map layer, in their category colours.
  • Save up to 100 places on Base, or 1,000 on Premium.

Map layers, hazards, and tracking​

  • Toggle layers for Places, Hazards, Floods, and your saved places.
  • See low bridges and weight, width, and length limits, with a warning banner for restrictions ahead.
  • Live flood warnings shaded on the map.
  • Follow your own position live, with a heading arrow.

Community contributions​

  • Add a place through the public form, no account needed, ready for QR-code business cards.
  • Suggest edits to existing places, with owner claims for businesses.
  • Leave a quick thumbs up or down on any place.

Accounts​

  • Everything core works signed out, with your preferences kept on your device.
  • Sign in with an email and password, with your Sensa account, or with a Nomad campervan, to sync your saved places and settings across devices.

Bug fixes​

  • Fixed fuel prices that were showing with the decimal point in the wrong place.
  • Routes only flag hazards and steep sections that are actually near the final route.
  • Route slots show the place name you typed, not raw coordinates.
  • Places from sources without an address now show a readable address.
  • Saving a bookmark updates your places straight away, with no reload.

Known issues​

  • Turn-by-turn banner icons are text-only for now.
  • Estimated arrival time is based on the route, without live traffic.

A note on offline maps​

Offline map packs are planned as a Premium feature and will arrive with the native mobile app. They are not available yet on any platform.