Mapcao 1.6 for iOS and Android — offline maps and trip folders

The release aimed at the two complaints we heard most: it stops working where the signal stops, and a long trip turns the map into a mess.

Offline maps let you download a province before you leave. The download covers the base map and every place you have already opened inside it; scratching a new place open works offline too and syncs the next time the device has a connection.

Trip folders group places by journey rather than by geography. A week in the north becomes one folder instead of forty loose pins, and the folder carries its own dates, so the same province visited twice reads as two trips rather than one confused one.

1.6 also cuts cold-start time roughly in half by deferring the tile cache warm-up until after the first frame.

In this release

• Download a province for offline use, including the places you have opened.
• Trip folders with their own dates and cover photo.
• Cold start roughly halved.
• Fixed: a place opened while offline could be recorded twice after reconnecting.

The product

• Mapcao — read the case