Roadstr 0.4.20 is out. Pick your own vehicle cursor colour — 7 tints to choose from — plus a new Classic Fiat 500 style, right from Settings. Free, open source, no Google Play Services, no tracking. Just you and the road. https://github.com/roadstrapp/roadstr-app/releases/tag/v.0.4.20 #Nostr #Roadstr #OpenStreetMap #GrowNostr #FuckGoogle

Roadstr 0.4.18 is out — and if you're on 0.4.17, update. That release could crash mid-route. The map was opening a new database watcher on every GPS fix and couldn't close the old ones fast enough, so after a few minutes of driving it ran out of memory. Fixed, and covered by tests so it can't come back quietly. Also fixed, all reported from an actual drive: • Roundabout signs drew too many arms. Where a road meets a roundabout as two separate carriageways it got counted twice — a four-exit junction drew as seven. The spacing between those two points depends entirely on the size of the roundabout, so the fixed threshold could never work. It's measured from the ring now. And when the shape still can't be resolved confidently, a plain roundabout is drawn instead of a wrong one: on the road, a sign showing the wrong junction is worse than one showing no detail. • The map no longer occasionally spins 180°. Standing still the GPS drifts, and the direction of travel was being measured from where it had drifted to. • More restricted-traffic zones detected. Most are tagged in OpenStreetMap as time-limited, and those tags weren't being read at all — eleven restricted streets in one Italian city centre the app simply couldn't see before. https://github.com/roadstrapp/roadstr-app/releases/tag/v.0.4.18 #Nostr #Roadstr #OpenStreetMap #GrowNostr #FuckGoogle

Small update today since I'm not driving much these days. Roadstr 0.4.13 is out. The cursor now points where you're actually going. Outside navigation it used to follow the phone's compass — in a cradle at an angle, that meant it pointed across the road instead of along it. Now it follows your GPS course whenever you're moving, and stays glued to the road through curves. Also in this one: • Add your own relay for favourites sync. Public relays promise nothing about how long they keep your data — one you run or pay for does. • Search sends far less traffic while you type. • Reconnects and map lookups back off instead of hammering a service that's already struggling. Better battery on a bad connection. • A pile of hardening: hostile relays can't grow the app's memory, remote text is length-capped, LNURL lookups reject addresses that look public but resolve inward. #Roadstr #OpenStreetMap #GrowNostr and as always #FuckGoogle

This is why we build the other stuff on nostr. Ungovernable, sovereign apps only you can control.

Roadstr 0.4.12 is out NEARBY — tap the search box and, without typing a word, one tap tells you where the closest fuel, supermarket, cash machine, pharmacy, hospital, police station, post office, parking or charger is. Within 5 km of wherever you actually are, nearest first, distance on every row. Straight from OpenStreetMap tags, so it reads the same in Berlin, Tokyo, Nairobi or São Paulo — and places OSM never gave a name to are kept, not dropped: an unbranded pump or a cash machine in a wall is exactly what you were looking for. And a number that had been lying to you: "avoid motorways & tolls" was quoting travel times from a different routing engine than every other route on screen. Checked on 29 real journeys over 350 km across six continents, plus ferries, islands and toll bridges. Also in this build: • Four relays instead of two, each verified to really store and serve Roadstr events — reports go to all of them, and all four are asked at once, so redundancy costs no waiting • "My reports" is no longer empty: the profile was asking a single relay that kept refusing connections • No more crash when updating the speed limit on one of your speed camera reports • Restricted traffic zone (ZTL/ZAC) warning is back on screen • Speed limit sign no longer hangs around after the route preview • The map moves the moment you open it, instead of waiting for a cold GPS lock • Fewer pointless reroutes • Voice guidance speaks at 1.30× by default, so instructions land before the junction • Auto dark theme off by default: your theme stays your theme • 21 strings finally translated into all 26 languages As usual, free, no account, no tracking. OpenStreetMap for the map, Nostr for the road reports, Lightning for the tips. #Nostr #Roadstr #OpenStreetMap #GrowNostr #FuckGoogle

v0.4.11 (20) Notification Added notifications for every zap, report and alert confirmed or discarded by other users. Notifications will not take place during navigation. Vocal alert for speed cameras, when a user posts an alert for a speed camera a new field with speed limits can be filled. This will vocally alert users in close proximity. Bugfixes, resized remaining time and remaining distance in a more properly dimensioned font.

Roadstr v0.4.10 is out ⚡🗺️ 🛰️ GPS now works on de-Googled phones — GrapheneOS, /e/OS, LineageOS. No Play Services required, ever. We read the GNSS hardware directly, which also means zero location data ever touches Google — for everyone. Privacy-first navigation, the way it should be and remember, always FuckGoogle. #Roadstr #GrapheneOS #Nostr #OpenStreetMap #OtherStuff #GrowNostr