Autour

Removed support for Google Places. Replaced Google Geocoding by LocationIQ geocoding for saying "you are standing at" in status. Maximum distance increased from 70 to 300 metres. OSM (alias OpenStreetMap) was the source of intersections, park shapes and large building shapes, but now it can also be used as a regular Place Data Source instead of FourSquare. Name of current mode is restated when you exit the main menu. The place menu now tells you the category of the place and, if you chose OSM Places, it can also tell you the website, the phone number and the opening hours if OSM has them, and Autour can dial the number or open the website. Screen sizes of the iPhone X models are now supported. Bugfixes : Plugging stereo headphones after Autour was launched in mono mode now switches to stereo mode without restarting the app. Maximum radius of location error increased from 35 to 70 metres because iPhone 7 and later report much higher values than earlier phones. Intersection rendering is now always enabled, independently of whether the 'Services' category is selected. Fixed problem in which some devices continued rendering locations from the tutorial location after the tutorial was complete. Also fixed problem from iOS 13+ that prevented users from re-entering a given menu until restarting the app, and another iOS 13+ problem that froze the app if the menu was exited by swiping the page down.

Place Menu wasn't pausing a Shockwave sweep. VoiceOver no longer says "selected" for the last menu item previously clicked. Menus now display correctly on wide screens such as iPhone 6 (with no effect on VoiceOver). Fixed a crash related to the detector for low battery, which was introduced in the last release and didn't affect iPhones older than 4S. Added a way to control the maximum number of places spoken per sweep, which was 15 and now can be increased up to 50. Help for Maximum Distance setting was very outdated, sorry. Lots more info was added about ICADE game pads in the instructions manual (and some more text in the settings menu).

Autour can now be remote-controlled using ICADE game pads ! This works on both the main screen and for menu navigation, if the game pad has at least the four arrows plus the main four buttons. Go see 2 new settings about this in the settings menu, and consult instructions manual in the About menu. There is also a new menu called "Menu for this place", which lists actions that are relative to the last spoken place. You get it by swiping down from the main screen and it offers to go to Google Maps and Apple Plans, just as in the Other menu, except in this case it asks for directions to the specified place (even though the place is very close, it still helps some users). The setting for choosing upside-down use (neck pouch) now has an option so that tilting the phone is no longer used for switching modes (instead you can switch modes from the main menu or using a game pad button). A new setting allows to start sweeping or beaming as soon as you switch modes. History now sets cursor correctly when going forward past the end. Multiple-choice settings now say directly what is the current setting (instead of having to go back inside the chooser). Meanwhile, on the server, a hundred more public transportation agencies were added. Those have been available since last summer, in all previous versions of the app.

Corrected crash when abridging bus stop texts while using English language. Beam mode history no longer resets at every tick. Added setting for replacing metres by yards or feet. Place details (history) now tells you the address of a place if Google or Foursquare has it. GPS latency is improved. Foursquare ratings are now used for prioritising, partially. Meanwhile, on the server, a transmission problem for part of the accented characters has been corrected.

Corrected freeze in tutorial that happened only on iOS 10. Now you are allowed to select French as the app's language when your phone's language is not French. Now you are allowed to select a different language for reading place names than for the rest of the text. Very long bus stop texts are no longer spoken unless you go hear details in history. Added headphone button interface. Summary of what's around you scans the whole circle instead of depending on the direction you are facing. Slightly reduced the startup time of the app. Meanwhile, on the server, 490 new transportation agencies from around the world were just added on top of the 42 canadian agencies available until now. This covers much of USA and Europe. Agencies may vary heavily by how they name lines and directions, and so, we cannot guarantee that every bus stop text will make sense and will be as concise as it can.

Fixed several causes of randomly-occurring crashes (large majority of the crash reports we've received). Beam mode now uses fixed ranges for sectors, to avoid duplicating places or missing places (as was the case when centring simply on the new heading of the user). Corrected excessive switching of beam when around the north direction. Added the names of some cardinal points just after the tick sound of the beam. Instead of saying how wide the beam should be in degrees, there is a setting for number of sectors that allows to divide a whole turn into 4, 8, 12 or 16 sectors. Added a setting for adjusting the rate of the non-VoiceOver voice. The warning about not being in Canada was removed. Meanwhile, on the server, intersections and contours of parks (and of some building types) for the whole world were added, to the extent that OpenStreetMap has them (whereas Autour only had that data for Canada at the time of previous release). Be warned that OpenStreetMap might be missing some streets or names of streets, especially in some countries and regions, and Autour ignores intersections that don't involve at least one street whose name is known.

Fixed various bugs and improved crash reports. Meanwhile, since previous version, the server database received all the streets, intersections and park contours in the whole United States, an update of those for the whole Canada, 4 more Canadian transit agencies (now 42 transit agencies).

Added link to Google's privacy policy. Added automatic switch to Foursquare if ever Google Places is not available.

Fixed problem of having to restart the app to avoid bad sounds when plugging or unplugging Bluetooth headphones.

Improved tutorial (bug fixes, new text, etc). Also fixed bug that caused the app to forget that the tutorial had been completed. Summary of places (double-tap) now spoken with a single voice, faster, as one sentence, sorted by number of occurrences of each category.