
Place: Explore the Outdoors
Field Guide to Any Location
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What's New in Place
1.3.1
September 22, 2026
Plan a route, send a place to a partner, and a report that keeps working with no signal. Plan a Route. From Tracks, tap the map to drop waypoints in order; straight legs join them and the terrain profile fills in under the line as you go — ascent and descent update with every tap. Save it and it's a track like any other: on the map, in the list, exportable as GPX with its waypoints. Open the saved route and tap any waypoint for the full report at that point — who manages the land, what the ground is, what's allowed. Legs are straight lines, not a trail route, and the app says so. Share links open in Place. Send a report, a saved place, or a route to someone who has the app and it opens on the spot, with their own fresh report. Without the app, the web page works as before — and a shared track's page now draws the line on a topo map, with a planned route's waypoints numbered. Offline, honestly. Every report you open is now kept on the device, so a place you looked at yesterday reads in full in a dead zone — instantly, with a note that it's the saved copy. A place you haven't opened says it's offline and loads itself the moment signal returns, instead of a column of "not available" cards. Nothing retries a connection the phone already knows is gone. Recreation sites say who runs them. A visitor center catalogued by USGS used to wear a USGS badge; Travelers' Rest State Park now reads Montana State Parks, a Forest Service campground USFS, and a site whose record names nobody gets no badge at all — the dataset is cited underneath instead. Parcel cards read like an envelope: "City of Missoula", "2800 40th Ave", "Parcel 1", instead of the county roll's capitals. The map draws its location dot far more cheaply — a ten-metre fix with a distance filter, no per-frame pulse — and the Lock Screen recording card updates every ten seconds instead of every two. Longer days in the field.
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