
Place: Explore the Outdoors
Field Guide to Any Location
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What's New in Place
1.1
August 11, 2026
This release answers three questions Place couldn't answer before: is it dangerous here, can I drive there, and may I fly here. Hazards, free for everyone — active National Weather Service watches and warnings for the spot you're looking at, today's avalanche danger and forecast zone, recent and historic earthquakes, drought status, soil burn severity with post-fire debris flow risk, and recorded tsunami runups. These are the answers with a safety consequence, so they're free whether or not you have Pro. Where there's no avalanche forecast, Place says so plainly rather than implying the slope is safe. Road Access — road class and what vehicle a route actually requires, from passenger car through high clearance to four-wheel drive. The new roads overlay colors every road by that requirement, and closed roads get their own switch so they don't bury the answer to "where can I drive." Drone Flight — FAA airspace and the land manager's ground rules, kept separate on purpose. Legal airspace over a unit that bans launching isn't permission, and Place won't let one read as the other. Nearby public-use airports are marked as context. Dispersed Camping — a suitability read on BLM ground, drawn from surface management and access. It tells you where camping is plausible, not where a campsite is. Weather on the map — radar, rain accumulation, snow depth, and a traditional weather chart you can step across three days. In the report: measured conditions from the nearest station, surface smoke, aurora outlook, fire weather, and terrain shade — when the sun actually clears the ridge, which is rarely sunrise. Living Landscape — protected species habitat, what's actually growing here, and how far along spring is at this spot. All free. Trip Journal — your tracks, saved places, and observations, grouped into the outings they came from. Open a trip to see everything in the order it happened, then jump to any of it on the map. Navigate — bearing, distance, and which way to turn toward any point. Not turn-by-turn, because most of where you'll use it has no trail to follow. Directions still hands off to Maps for the drive to the trailhead; Navigate takes you the rest of the way. Layers & Sections rebuilt — map layers and report sections now live on separate tabs with search, so finding one thing among two hundred takes a moment instead of a scroll. Switching a layer off on the map now drops its section from your report too. Faster reports — sections no longer wait in line behind the slowest one. Reports you've opened before come back nearly instantly. Also fixed: several sections that quietly vanished on a second visit, weather overlays that couldn't draw or refresh, a drought reading frozen at the week we shipped it, roads missing their outline, and the offline map list you couldn't scroll past.
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