14 DAY TRIAL // The GNOME developers are hard at work these days, preparing the release of the first Beta build of the anticipated GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, due for release on September 23, 2015.
As part of GNOME 3.18 Beta, several core apps and components received important updates, among which we can mention GNOME Maps. The new GNOME Maps 3.18 milestone, technical version number 3.17.90, brings various new features and bugfixes, such as the ability to store and complete against recent routes.
For example, the first Beta of GNOME Maps 3.18 adds new icons for the user-location and directional user-location items, displays the heading from Geoclue, no longer animates 'what is here?', adds the 'Copy Geo URI' context menu item, and adds support for Geo URI (RFC5870) in the searchbar.
Among the added, updated, or fixed language translations that landed in this new development version of GNOME Maps, we can mention Traditional Chinese, Aragonese, Portuguese, Occitan, Friulian, Catalan, and Icelandic.
Those of you who want to take the first Beta release of GNOME Maps 3.18 for a test drive can do so by downloading the sources right now from Softpedia. However, please keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, it contains unresolved issues, and it is not suitable for production use.