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
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