The first beta is now available for testing

Feb 21, 2015 02:18 GMT  ·  By

The first beta of the upcoming GNOME Maps 3.16 app of the GNOME desktop environment has been announced as part of the GNOME 3.16 Beta 1 release of the controversial desktop environment. In this beta, GNOME Maps received several improvements and bug fixes that we’ve detailed below for your general information.

The application will now display notifications with a URL to the Privacy Panel if location service is turned off, a user location marker is now displayed if the location service is turned on, the “show-location” activation action has been added in order to display your contacts in the app, which can have geocodable addresses for search auto-completion.

A point release for the GNOME Maps 3.16 Beta 1 version was announced by the developers a few hours later, introducing the ability to install Maps C library into the package library directory (pkglibdir). The GNOME Maps app will be distributed as part of the forthcoming GNOME 3.16 desktop environment, due for release on March 25, 2015.

As expected, several translations have also been updated in this first beta release of GNOME Maps 3.16, including Russian, Greek, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Norwegian Bokmal, Hebrew, Czech, German, and Esperanto. Download GNOME Maps 3.16 Beta 1 right now via Softpedia. Keep in mind though that it’s an unstable version and it should not be installed on production machines.

GNOME Maps 3.16 Beta Changelog