A beta tester sent this last week:
"Voice telling me inaccurate distances before turns. Quoting
metres when ft is what's displayed on screen."
Opened the code. Voice generator was hardcoded to metres,
regardless of the user's units pref.
Fixed in v1.2.5. Imperial users now hear "in 200 yards" / "in
a quarter mile" — matching what they see.
Beta reports → real fixes → next build. The loop works.
If you're a multilingual driver in any of the 5 new locales — especially if you spot anything that reads off in your language — your eyes shape what ships next.
Built in public. Beta open.
https://t.co/vdMUJXH6pg
A few weeks ago we onboarded our first European beta tester. He's German.
Today Meridian Drive ships in 6 languages.
A short thread on what it actually takes to localise a nav app.
v1.2.5 highlights:
→ Native UI in DE / FR / ES / IT / NL alongside EN
→ Language picker in Settings — your phone is in Spanish but you want nav in English? One tap.
→ Colour-blind-safe palette for traffic + speed warnings
→ U-turn avoidance now a safety default, not an opt-in
→ A handful of CarPlay + Android Auto polish fixes
Two other fixes in the same release:
• Android Auto map now renders on aftermarket head units (Atoto, Carlinkit, etc.)
• Password reset email links now open the app properly
Beta's open across UK, IRE, AUS, NZ — currently expanding to EU:
https://t.co/vdMUJXH6pg
Fix: pull the smoothing into a shared helper, use it for both the local display AND every broadcast site (convoy presence, live-share viewer, CarPlay/AA member dots, trip stats).
5 files. Made it structurally impossible to drift again.
Shipped today as v1.2.2.
🚗 v1.2.0 of Meridian Drive ships today — biggest update yet.
🏍️ Driver Clubs (motorcycle, classic, overlanding, modified)
✨ AI route planning — "find me a scenic 2-hour drive"
📷 Convoy chat with photos
⚠️ Hazard alerts on your route
UK · IE · AU · NZ
https://t.co/7D6b10K03K
@ChislonChis Hi Richard,
Thank you for the feedback! We will be looking to move into the HUD systems a little further down the line.
When you say it's not smooth do you mean the user movement on the map? If you pop me a DM with a little in-depth detail, we can investigate and fix.
Dylan -
Google Maps wants to know where you go.
Apple Maps doesn't really care.
Waze sells where you went.
Meridian deletes where you went 24 hours after your trip ends.
Because we charge for the app, not for your data.
Every sat nav app on the market assumes you drive alone.
Group road trips, motorbike rideouts, car meets, family caravan
trips — none of them are solved by Google or Apple Maps. You're
stuck with WhatsApp + a "designated lead car" and the ritual of
losing each other at every junction.
Meridian does it better.
@Louis_Layr We're looking forward to having you join our platform Louis.
Sign-Up for our beta at https://t.co/zR3N3gkbun and once we launch in our next regions, we will notify you!
Team Meridian
Built a sat nav that lets you see your whole group on one map.
Four-character invite code. Live position updates. No more "where are you?" texts at every junction.
Now in closed beta. UK, IE, AU, NZ first.
https://t.co/zR3N3gkbun
@Louis_Layr Hi Louis,
Thank you for your enquiry. We're in beta in the UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand right now and are planning to expand this to a larger area very soon!
Team Meridian
The sat-nav for the people you drive with.
Live convoy tracking. Shared trips. Zero ad networks. Zero data brokers.
Now in beta on iOS + Android — beta testers get Pro free at launch.
🔗 https://t.co/zR3N3gkbun
Meridian is navigation that actually respects you. Your route, your speed, your location — it stays on your device and nowhere else. We don't store it. We don't sell it. We never will.