Changelog

Track the latest updates, features, and improvements to Keryx Maps.

v1.2.0Latest

Radiation Monitoring, Cross-State Navigation & Intelligence

April 2026

Highlights:

+Environmental radiation monitoring from Safecast + EPA RadNet
+Global Alerts (🌍) for worldwide earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, radiation spikes
+Family Sharing — true E2EE pin sync between household members
+Pins (unified) — Markers, Favorites and Places merged into one searchable list
+Cross-state road trip planning with CONUS highway overview
+GDELT geopolitical intelligence and GDACS global disaster alerts
+NASA FIRMS satellite fire detection
+Device-based authentication — login once, never again

Radiation Monitoring

•Real-time radiation data from Safecast (global, 150M+ readings) and EPA RadNet (200+ US stations)
•Color-coded station markers on map: green (normal) through red (dangerous)
•Station popup with current reading, source, and 24-hour sparkline chart
•Tiered alerts: elevated (nearby users), high (state), dangerous (country), extreme (global 🌍 push to all users worldwide)
•Station offline detection — coverage gap alerts when 3+ stations go dark in a region
•Dashboard widget showing stations monitored, elevated count, and highest reading

Cross-State Navigation

•CONUS highway overview map — interstates, US routes, and secondary highways visible at low zoom
•Highway route labels (I-10, US-66, etc.) and city names from zoom level 5
•Cross-state trip routing — download the states you'll travel through; each leg is calculated as you cross into the next state and its map loads automatically
•Road Trip planner with multi-stop waypoints, saved trips with encrypted cloud sync, and missing-map detection
•Trip Navigation HUD with leg progress, distance/time remaining, and waypoint arrival prompts
•Tap-the-map waypoint placement — toast indicator and mobile minimize-reopen flow
•GPS auto-switch: automatically loads the correct state map as you cross boundaries
•CONUS state overlay: downloaded states show green, missing states dim — see your trip coverage at a glance

Global Alerts

•Push notifications for worldwide-significant events that don't depend on which maps you've downloaded
•Large earthquakes (magnitude 6.5+) anywhere in the world
•Major hurricanes and tropical cyclones (Category 3+)
•Volcano warnings (WARNING alert level, aviation RED, and ash advisories)
•Radiation spikes (extreme readings above 10 µSv/h at any Safecast or EPA RadNet station)
•Four independent toggles in Settings → Global Alerts, all on by default
•Alerts display a 🌍 badge so you can tell they bypassed the map filter

New Data Sources

•GDELT: geopolitical intelligence — civil unrest, protests, infrastructure failures, humanitarian crises from global news monitoring
•GDACS: global disaster alerts — earthquakes, floods, cyclones, volcanoes, wildfires, droughts worldwide
•NASA FIRMS: satellite fire/hotspot detection with VIIRS/MODIS — individual fire detections every 3 hours
•Source tiering system: Tier 1 (Government) through Tier 4 (Community) classification for all data feeds
•Circuit breaker pattern: automatic failover to cached data when external APIs go down

Family Sharing

•End-to-end encrypted (AES-GCM-256) pin sharing between family members — server stores only ciphertext, never plaintext
•Owner sends an invite by email; the link contains an invite code that unlocks the family AES key on the invitee's device after signup
•Device-key wrapping for durable per-member storage; PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (100k iterations) for invite-code derivation
•All members can contribute pins (read-modify-write merge preserves everyone's contributions)
•Family-shared pins display "Shared by [name]" on map and in the Pins list
•Member can save a copy of any shared pin to their private store for personal customization
•6-month resub grace window: cancelled subscriptions keep the encrypted blob inactive (still un-readable by us) so resubscribing restores access — auto-purges after the window
•User-requested deletion is immediate (DELETE /family/group hard-deletes everything)

Pins (unified)

•Markers, Favorites, and Places merged into a single Pins concept — one bottom-nav entry, one searchable list
•Filter chips: All / Favorites / Temporary / Shared with family
•Sort: A-Z, distance from GPS, newest added (no last-viewed metadata — by privacy design)
•Temporary pins (expires in 1h / 6h / 24h / 1 week) — auto-disappear from map and list at expiry. Replaces the legacy "Markers" auto-expiry feature.
•is_favorite is now a boolean any pin can carry (orthogonal to category)
•Legacy /markers, /favorites, /my-places URLs redirect to /pins with appropriate filter preset
•On first launch after upgrade, legacy disaster_markers and disaster_favorites localStorage data is migrated into the unified UserPin store (Capacitor Filesystem on native, IndexedDB on web)
•Mock data on Tracks page removed — fresh installs see an honest empty state with a 3-step explainer (record / stop & save / or import GPX)

Authentication & Security

•Device-based authentication — log in once, silent token refresh on every app open
•Offline grace mode — app opens with full local features even without connectivity
•Device management page at Settings → Devices — view and revoke registered devices
•Bot protection on all public forms: honeypot, timing check, rate limiting
•Open redirect vulnerabilities fixed on payment and magic link flows
•HTML injection prevention in all email notifications

Map & UX

•Dynamic map legend — shows only event types currently visible, auto-updates on pan/zoom
•Test alert filtering — county emergency system tests no longer trigger notifications
•Improved alert messages — no more "Affecting Affected Area" from placeholder data
•Durable data storage on Android/iOS — pins, routes, and settings survive WebView updates
•Family-shared pins display a thin purple ring on map markers
•Favorite pins display a small gold star above the marker
•Bottom nav simplified — removed redundant Markers/Favorites/Places, added unified Pins
•Trip Planner CONUS view loads tiles before opening (eliminates state-tile-at-CONUS-zoom render glitch)
•Tap-on-map ghost-route bug fixed (MapLibreGlDirections.interactive disabled)

Desktop & Platform

•All desktop platforms updated to v1.2.0 (Windows, Linux, macOS)
•Separate build configurations per platform — eliminates cross-platform build conflicts
•Linux: .deb, .rpm, and .AppImage packages
•Preparedness Field Guide PDF available via email signup

v1.1.4

Blog & Vehicle Settings

March 2026

Highlights:

+Blog with full articles, RSS feed, and AI-readable content
+Vehicle management in Settings with default vehicle support
+Windows desktop app now available

Blog

•Blog with full article pages and responsive design
•RSS feed for subscribing to updates
•AI-readable content for LLM discovery (llms.txt)

Vehicle Settings

•Dedicated vehicle management section in Settings
•Inline add, edit, and delete vehicles without modal popups
•Set a default vehicle for automatic route planning selection
•Compact vehicle selector dropdown in Route Planning
•Quick-view expandable vehicle details with specs and capabilities

Desktop Apps

•Windows desktop app with NSIS installer now available on download page

v1.1.3

Routing & Desktop Apps

February 2026

Highlights:

+Multi-stop waypoint routing with numbered markers
+Dimension-aware routing for RVs and trailers
+macOS desktop app for Intel and Apple Silicon

Navigation & Routing

•Multi-stop waypoint routing with numbered markers and stop list
•Directions preview with alternate route suggestions
•Save and share routes
•Set a manual start location for routing without GPS on all platforms
•Dimension-aware routing for RVs and trailers — bridge clearance and weight restrictions

Map & Pins

•Long-press to drop a pin on mobile map
•Direct PMTiles search for faster map lookups
•GPS centering improvements

Desktop Apps

•macOS desktop app with native builds for Intel and Apple Silicon

Storm Tracker

•Storm marker clustering for cleaner map at low zoom levels
•Storm sub-type colors with legend for quick identification

Mobile & Notifications

•Push notifications enabled on mobile app startup
•On-device encryption for auth tokens and personal data

v1.1.2

Storm Tracker & Mobile Offline Support

January 27, 2026

Highlights:

+Storm Tracker added to mobile apps with offline caching
+Track active tropical cyclones and winter storms
+Temperature gradient map with d3-contour visualization

Storm Tracker

•Storm Tracker now accessible from mobile app menu
•Offline caching for storm data (~50KB, 15-minute refresh)
•Track active tropical cyclones and winter storms in real-time
•Temperature gradient visualization with d3-contour
•Storm list with severity indicators and timestamps
•Automatic fallback to cached data when offline

Mobile Improvements

•New Storm Tracker menu item in mobile drawer
•Platform-aware storage (Capacitor Preferences on native, localStorage on web)
•Offline indicator shows when using cached data
•Automatic fallback to cached data when network unavailable

v1.1.1

Wildfire Tracking & Enhancements

January 15, 2026

Highlights:

+Wildfire incident tracking with NIFC/FIRMS integration
+Weather forecasts with customizable preferences
+Bug fixes and style improvements

Weather & Alerts

•Wildfire incident tracking with NIFC WFIGS and NASA FIRMS correlation
•NWS weather forecasts with customizable temperature units
•Enhanced space weather monitoring and alerts

Bug Fixes & Improvements

•Fixed 3D globe UNKNOWN event display issues
•Improved mobile event markers and map interaction
•Style and UI consistency updates
•Performance optimizations for map loading

v1.0

Keryx Maps Launch

Initial Release

Highlights:

+Complete disaster monitoring platform
+Offline maps with turn-by-turn navigation
+Native iOS and Android apps

Navigation & Routing

•Offline turn-by-turn navigation with Valhalla routing engine
•Advanced route planning with waypoint management
•Driving mode with imperial/metric distance display
•Route preview panel with start/cancel controls
•GPX/KML trail import and export

Offline Maps

•Download detailed offline maps with topographic overlays
•Fast map loading with PMTiles format
•Address search data included with map downloads
•Routing data bundled for offline navigation
•Coverage for all US states and territories

Mobile Apps

•Native iOS and Android applications
•Direct APK download for GrapheneOS and LineageOS users
•Full-screen map controls
•Driving mode heads-up display (HUD)
•Background location tracking for navigation

3D Globe & Visualization

•Interactive 3D globe with real-time event markers
•Event type filtering and search
•Space weather visualization with aurora forecasts
•Timeline view for historical events

Privacy & Security

•End-to-end encrypted family sync
•GDPR/CCPA privacy compliance
•Two-factor authentication (2FA)
•Privacy-first data architecture
•No location data stored on servers

Family Features

•Family plan with up to 5 members
•Shared waypoints, pins, and routes
•Shared offline map downloads
•Encrypted cross-device sync
•Family account management

Data & Integrations

•45+ data feeds from 25+ authoritative sources including USGS, NOAA, NASA
•Global earthquake coverage with multiple seismic networks
•Enhanced geocoding with region support
•Real-time disaster event monitoring
•24/7 continuous data ingestion

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