
NETTRASH.Geo
Altimeter, peaks & AR skyline
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What's New in NETTRASH.Geo
1.2
August 8, 2026
The Nature view is rebuilt around one job: naming the peaks you can actually see. • A clean horizon with N / E / S / W compass markers, and a clear label on every visible summit — pinned to the real mountain, not a modelled silhouette. • Peaks hidden below your horizon are no longer shown, so the view isn't cluttered with summits you couldn't possibly see. • A new minimum-altitude slider hides the small hills; your setting is remembered next time. • A shutter button captures the camera view with the peak labels drawn on, ready to share or save to Photos. • Offline areas are peaks-only now: smaller and faster to download, and they show peaks in the camera out to ~80 km with no signal. A downloaded area can be updated in place. • Drag sideways to nudge the whole overlay onto the real mountains when the compass is a few degrees off. A new Magnetic Conditions card on the Info tab tells you what a geomagnetic storm is doing to your compass, to your GPS and to your chances of seeing the aurora — from exactly where you're standing. • It reads the planetary K index published by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center — measured by ground observatories, not by your phone — and works out the local consequences on the device: the storm level on the G scale, how far a storm can push your compass beyond its normal error, whether GPS may degrade at your latitude, and whether the auroral oval reaches you tonight. • Your magnetic latitude, and the Kp the aurora would need to become visible from it ("needs about Kp 5+"), with tonight's darkness window and the bearing to look along. • Aurora alerts are opt-in and off by default. Switch them on for a notification on nights the aurora could be visible from where you are, capped at one a night. • Space weather without telling anyone where you are: the request is a fixed URL with no parameters — no coordinates, no identifiers, nothing about you at all — and every local figure is worked out on the phone from that one published number. • With no signal the card keeps the half that never needed the network — magnetic latitude, the Kp threshold, the darkness window, the bearing — and says plainly that it has no space-weather data. • A "What this means" sheet covers what a storm really does to a compass and to GPS, and why local iron — vehicles, rebar, a case magnet — routinely beats any storm. Easier on the battery, and the widget is stale less often: the home-screen widget and the Watch complication now ask to refresh every 15 minutes instead of every 2 and 5 minutes. iOS only grants a few dozen widget reloads a day, so the old cadence spent that budget early and then left the widget stale for long stretches. Every refresh still takes a live barometer sample, and using the app still updates the widget straight away. Also fixed: on the Stats tab, the live altitude graph keeps recording the barometer trace when GPS drops, instead of freezing.
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