Watchface: TopoLocal by Techconnect

[anne_droid]

TopoLocal by Techconnect

There’s a new watchface on the Rebble App Store!

@Techconnect says

Real terrain, wherever you are.

TopoLocal turns real elevation data around your phone into a clean topographic watchface for Pebble Time 2.

• Adaptive map width chooses among 2, 5, 10 and 20 km for readable contours, or you can fix the width and contour density.
• Location and weather refresh every 15, 30 or 60 minutes while the watchface is active.
• Choose a date in six formats or model-based local temperature in °C or °F.
• Choose 24-hour time or 12-hour time with AM/PM.
• Four clock positions and separate colors for contours, time, information and background.
• Blue contours, gray information and white time on black by default.
• The last map stays visible offline; outdated temperature is hidden.
• English interface. Free, with no ads, subscriptions, TopoLocal account or API key.

Requires Pebble Time 2 (Emery) and the Pebble phone app with location permission and internet for fresh data. Tested with Android; iOS is unverified. Phone battery saving may delay updates.

Terrain: Terrain Tiles / Mapzen via AWS, including Copernicus EU-DEM. Weather: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). Credits and full license notices are in settings. Tile requests reveal the map area to AWS; temperature mode sends coordinates to Open-Meteo. Settings and recent data are cached locally. No TopoLocal analytics or backend.

Contours are simplified for display. Flat areas may have few contours. For decoration, not navigation.

Go check it out in the App Store!

Emery screenshots:

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[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Techconnect just released version 0.3.1 of TopoLocal!

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Release notes

0.3.1

• Four layouts and four fonts, with ten palettes and custom colors.
• Close-fitting panels, halos or hollow digits. Compact and Atlas can choose a quiet corner.
• Three contour styles: Uniform, Color contrast and Bold lines. Bold thickens every fifth elevation contour in your chosen line color.
• Atlas now shows a distance bar and the height between contours.
• Optional shake to switch date and temperature; phone settings add a map preview and refresh after saving.
• Shorter settings text. Your preferences and last map carry over from 0.2.2.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Techconnect just released version 0.3.2 of TopoLocal!

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Release notes

Added LECO as a fifth clock font, using the font built into Pebble. Available in Compact, Halo, Atlas and Stack, with panel, halo or hollow digits. The phone preview uses a substitute font.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Techconnect just released version 0.4.0 of TopoLocal!

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Release notes

Added optional experimental compass rotation. Select Shake action > Compass, then shake your wrist: the map turns with your heading for 12 seconds after calibration while the clock stays fixed. Compass is off by default; existing preferences stay unchanged.

The map includes surrounding terrain so its edges stay filled during rotation. Magnetic correction uses WMM2025 offline on the phone.

Please allow a fresh map download after updating. Larger maps may need the phone to resend them after restarting the watchface. Physical compass accuracy and battery use are still unverified.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Techconnect just released version 0.4.1 of TopoLocal!

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Release notes

Fixed disappearing terrain after restarting the watchface or losing the phone connection.

The watch saves a full map when it fits, otherwise a cropped copy with reduced detail if needed. A cropped copy stays north-up until the phone restores the full map. Cached terrain can return before a new location fix, and failed transfers can retry.

Failed updates or updates with no visible contours keep the previous map and its original age. This also fixes a flatness check that could discard valid contours.

Your settings stay unchanged. Allow one successful map transfer after updating to save the new offline copy. Compass remains experimental.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Techconnect just released version 0.5.0 of TopoLocal!

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Release notes

Added Pebble 2 Duo support in the same TopoLocal package.

Duo gets Dark and Light themes, all four layouts and five fonts, with sizes and spacing suited to its 144×168 display. Use uniform contours or bold main lines. Date, temperature, AM/PM, Atlas scales and offline maps work on both watches.

Reduced memory use and kept the missing-map fixes from 0.4.1. Maps and appearance settings are stored separately for each watch model, so switching watches keeps the correct screen size and colors.

Duo keeps its map north-up. Compass rotation remains an optional experimental feature on Time 2; it did not pass our Duo emulator tests and is not offered there.

Time 2 keeps its existing colors and preferences. Keep your phone connected until the first map loads on Duo.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Techconnect just released version 0.5.1 of TopoLocal!

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Release notes

Reduced stack memory use on Pebble 2 Duo during startup and drawing. This addresses a risk found while investigating a reported crash; confirmation on the affected watch is still needed. No changes to appearance or settings.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Techconnect just released version 0.5.2 of TopoLocal!

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Release notes

Choose Date, Temperature or Steps in Time → Show. Steps use today’s total from your watch and stay on the watch.

With Steps selected, the Switch information shake action flips between steps and temperature. If weather is unavailable, it returns to steps.

Works with the existing layouts and fonts on Pebble Time 2 and Pebble 2 Duo. Keeps the Duo stability fixes from 0.5.1.