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October 2026

  1. Depth bands and isobaths from zoom 4

    Seascape style 0.4.0

    The style for the v2026.10.16 tiles.

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  2. Shallow seas split into depth bands at low zoom

    Seascape 2026.10.16

    Shallow seas no longer turn into one solid blue band at low zoom, and Bands mode is a compiled chart partition from z4 up.

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  3. Soundings placed at the transducer, none lost or sent twice; requires Node 24

    Crowd depth 1.3.0

    More accurate soundings, and none lost or sent twice.

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  4. Depth areas, isobaths, and soundings compiled per zoom level

    Seascape 2026.10.15

    Depth areas and isobaths are now compiled per zoom tier, the way an ENC is compiled per usage band, and the soundings follow chart practice for selection and rounding.

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  5. Tiles at half the size, with land areas

    Maritime zones 0.2.0

    Maritime zone tiles for @openwaters/maritime-zones 0.2.0. The package downloads the tiles it needs from this release and checks each against the sha256 in tiles.json.

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  6. First maritime zone tiles

    Maritime zones 0.1.0

    Maritime zone tiles for @openwaters/maritime-zones 0.1.0. The package downloads the tiles it needs from this release and checks each against the sha256 in tiles.json.

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September 2026

  1. Water body names and boat rentals

    Seamap 0.3.1

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August 2026

  1. New icon and App Store listing

    Crowd depth 1.2.6

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  2. Readable device names in the source menus

    Crowd depth 1.2.5

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  3. Unknown-depth water without seams or gaps

    Seascape 2026.08.17

    Unknown-depth water no longer shows gaps at tile seams or along shorelines, and the depth-area geometry underneath is now valid by construction.

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  4. Dock fuel, wreck buoys, and cleaner zoomed-out charts

    Seamap 0.3.0

    Warm the land color for better contrast with the water

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  5. Six new high-resolution depth sources in four countries

    Seascape 2026.08.16

    Six new high-resolution bathymetry sources across four countries, restored drying-area rendering on macro-tidal coasts, and a hardened data pipeline behind them.

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  6. US coastal depths referenced to chart datum

    Seascape 2026.08.10

    Try it: demo viewer · openwaters.io/charts/seascape

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  7. Lights, buoys, and many more charted features

    Seamap 0.2.0

    Draw many more of the features already in the map data

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  8. Reports continue after scans with no new data

    Crowd depth 1.2.4

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  9. Every source at its native resolution, and depth areas return

    Seascape 0.3.0

    Try it: demo viewer · openwaters.io/charts/seascape

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July 2026

  1. Reports go through during NOAA outages

    Crowd depth 1.2.3

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  2. Clearer errors when a report fails

    Crowd depth 1.2.2

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  3. Less SD card wear

    Crowd depth 1.2.1

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  4. Chart-style deep water and sharper shallows

    Seascape 0.2.0

    Try it: demo viewer · openwaters.io/charts/seascape

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  5. ISO 8601 timestamps in the plugin status

    Crowd depth 1.2.0

    Use ISO 8601 for report timestamps in plugin status

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  6. Seascape 0.1.0

    First public release of Seascape: free bathymetry tiles for MapLibre and Mapbox GL, built from 23 global and regional sources.

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  7. Crowd depth 1.1.0

    Depth history recording works again with signalk-to-influxdb2 v2. Reading position and depth back from the history provider broke against the v2 provider. crowd-depth now runs a single combined query…

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