It is Monday, 08:12. A delivery driver leaves the depot on a route the dispatcher built on Sunday afternoon. The routing engine that built it does not know that the arterial out of the warehouse jams between 08:00 and 08:30. The driver does. So does anyone who lives nearby. Every minute the engine does not know costs someone — the driver, the customer, the company.

Predicted traffic is the routing feature most people assume already works. In Valhalla, it can — once someone does the work to feed it well. Over the last several months at Globus, we have done that work.

This post is what we shipped, what we threw away, and why a deliberately small layer ended up mattering more than a flashy one.

Better Navigation UI with Track Arrows​

v1.13.0 makes navigation routes clearer with directional arrows along your track. Plus: a new helper for displaying user location, Android stability fixes, and better cross-platform API parity.

API Refinement, Smarter Tile Loading, and Cross-Platform Consistency​

v1.12.0 is all about polish and performance. We've cleaned up coordinate conversion APIs, optimized tile loading to reduce bandwidth waste, and standardized naming across platforms to make your code more maintainable.

TL;DR​

1. Unified screen-to-map conversion API on Android – now uses android.graphics.PointF, eliminating the old MapPoint/Point mix-up
2. Property clean-up on iOS – mapZoom → mapScale (and heads-up about v1.13 renaming of mapZoomLevel)
3. Smarter tile pipeline on both platforms – fewer aborts, fewer duplicate downloads, better cache hit-rate
4. NDK r28.1 & 16 KB page-size support for Android – rebuilt libs and updated CMake configs

Lane Guidance, Valhalla Integration, and Smarter Route Tracking​

v1.11.0 brings professional-grade navigation features that help drivers navigate complex intersections with confidence. We've added turn lane information, direct Valhalla JSON route creation, and intelligent alternative route tracking.

Map Pitch: Bringing Navigation to Life​

Navigation apps work best when they mirror how we naturally see the world. That's why v1.10.0 introduces map pitch – the ability to tilt your map view to create a more immersive, perspective-based navigation experience.