Maps Update Rollout, March 2026, Staged

[OutdoorMan]

@GiPFELKiND from Joaquin’s video. Should be straightforward.

[isazi]

@OutdoorMan the icons will improve with next update, for simplicity it was decided to use unicode symbols as they were already on (most) watches for this first version of this feature.

[HonzaS]

@mich-heller I have to find latest apk, now I see map update

[Horizontal_2]

I can’t update any maps. I live in The Netherlands and have The Vertical 2. The app doesn’t seem to be upgraded, but I’m not on beta.

Is it known when the roll out for the app will start and/or be final?

[isazi]

@Horizontal_2 then wait, I also have no updates yet, once the new Android App is released we’ll both receive the updates.

[mich heller]

@isazi yes, please, icons update will be much appreciated some of them are not quite visible on dark maps - like parking lot and shopping mall/store for example

Also… what is this blue icon in front of a bus? It looks like a bed?

[Horizontal_2]

@isazi I’ll be waiting patiently

[OutdoorMan]

@isazi those look good enough, but good to know, thanks!

[Fenr1r]

@mich-heller said in Maps Update Rollout, March 2026, Staged:

Also… what is this blue icon in front of a bus? It looks like a bed?

Dangerous drivers? Or this?

[mich heller]

@Fenr1r neither I live nearby, and this is a bus stop for a regular, public city transportation. that’s why i’m asking 'cause it looks weird

[freeheeler]

@mich-heller
must be a shelter then

[GiPFELKiND]

@freeheeler we dont have shelters in Germany at the bus Station looks like a Icon like a hostel / bed & breakfast Something Else. But NOT at the bus Station

[freeheeler]

@GiPFELKiND
the icon in my neighbourhood locates this

[Fenr1r]

@freeheeler Plausible. Soft pillows?

[mich heller]

@freeheeler that makes sense
this is the area from where my “bed icons” are. certainly no shelters here

[isazi]

@mich-heller check on OpenStreetMap what is there, if there isn’t a shelter edit it.

[Fenr1r]

@mich-heller How about this one?

[Manuel Extreme]

A lot has been done. The new maps look great, especially the place names. Now it’s time to add trail numbers / route names Thanks

[duffman19]

@mich-heller @freeheeler @gipfelkind Those are indeed shelters as labelled in OSM. Even tiny bus shelters like the one in @mich-heller’s photo will be labelled as such by micro-mappers. I guess they’d work if you need to get out of the rain?

This is one of the issues Suunto will face in using OSM data. There’s simply too much data in some places making it hard to distinguish what is actually important for someone using the watch or app to find, for instance, an actual storm shelter. You can really see this in dense urban areas where every single sidewalk and crossing has been mapped. It turns the map renderings into spaghetti.

[isazi]

@duffman19 exactly! This is also why feedback on this is important, this is only the first implementation, and now real users can provide feedback on what is valuable and what not.