v51.0

[westnordost]

Standalone measuring app

Measuring distances with the camera has been outsourced into a standalone app, so you can also measure things outside of the context of solving quests: StreetMeasure

This has been done for licensing reasons (see #4289). In a nutshell, ARCore (= Google Play Services for AR), on which the measuring is dependent on, is not open source.
This is why it is also not available on the main repo in F-Droid. If you do not have Google Play, you can download the APK from GitHub, but then you also need to install ARCore.

New Quests

• "Is this also here outside of winter?", asked for grit bins (Quest suggestion: Is this grit bin here the whole year? #4749, Add seasonal grit bin quest #4754), by @FloEdelmann

Enhancements

• The standalone measure app now explains how to achieve optimal precision and warns if the potential for a measuring error becomes too big (AR Core / Width prediction wrong / Put warning to users. #4655)
• Parking overlay: Support new street parking schema (Support new street parking tagging scheme #4664, Support new parking schema (and add staggered parking) #4768)
• Parking overlay: Add option to specify that cars park on alternating sides (i.e. not enough space to park on both sides at the same time)
• Address overlay: Make entering addresses in places with no street names more efficient (Ameliorate address quest (needed for India) #4718, Remember place selection in address form #4751), by @Helium314
• Ask for kerbs also on traffic islands (Look for kerbs where crossing meets traffic island #3786), by @arrival-spring
• Do not ask various quests for ways that only exist to connect an e.g. footway to the street-way (Quests for surface should not be shown for $highwaytype=link #4787)
• Notes: You can now preview the to be attached photos by tapping on them (Option to view photo before uploading it to new note. #2497, Allow viewing photos after attaching to note #4797), by @Helium314
• The name and location of a place is now also shown in the undo dialog (Display name of amenity in Undo menu #4767, Display name in undo dialog #4772), by @Helium314
• Other small enhancements, improved wordings, ... (Profile screen: Number 1 local rank for latest week does not have full wreath #4762, Ask fire hydrant diameter again after 6 years if unsigned #4750, Notes with pictures -preserve compass direction (and coordinates) in EXIF  #2880, Cycling overlay: specific color for two way bike segments in one way streets #4765, Use "System Default" theme by default #4710, Set default theme to system on Android 11+ #4781, Traffic lights sounds in Spain #4745, Vacant office fixes #4800...), thanks @matkoniecz, @FloEdelmann, @Helium314, @dbdean

Fixes

• Don't ask whether vacant shop is still the same shop (SC asks me if a vacant shop is the same shop #4752, Don't ask whether vacant shop is still the same shop #4756), by @Helium314
• (Street) names should not automatically be capitalized in Georgian (Street names are automatically title-cased in locales where they shouldn't be #4784, Autocorrect: use title-case instead of upper-case #4785), by @balsoft
• Other fixes (Cycleway resurvey quest applies incorrect tags for one-way streets #4774, Opening hours: interface "jumps" when selecting closing time hour #4763, Cycleway quest applies wrong tags #4790...)

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This discussion was created from the release v51.0.

[MMK21Hub]

Is this release not available on F-Droid yet? I suppose there must be a lag time because the app has to be compiled separately for F-Droid, but I've never noticed a delay before.

[Helium314]

This delay has always existed. Usually it's a few days, sometimes more than a week.

[matkoniecz]

At one point it was big enough to be measured in months.

[MMK21Hub]

Okay, that's good to know. Thanks for the info!