iOS Aruba Meridian Release Notes Follow

The iOS AppMaker release notes describe recent improvements, fixes, and new features for iOS AppMaker, which includes White-label apps and Aruba Meridian.

AppMaker (iOS)

May 15, 2024 - 10.2.0

• Various minor improvements and fixes.

March 20, 2024 - 10.1.0

• Fixed issue with SSO completion when returning from background
• Additional bug fixes and performance improvements

January 24, 2024 - 10.0.0

• Removes iOS 14 support
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

November 8, 2023 - 9.5.0

• Added accessibility improvements.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

September 13, 2023 - 9.4.0

• Fixed issue displaying certain SVG polyline formats.

August 2, 2023 - 9.3.0

• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

May 24, 2023 - 9.2.0

• The entire app has been rewritten in Swift! This will ensure increased stability and performance going forward.

March 15, 2023 - 9.1.0

• Enabled location sharing by default for a new profile.
• Various minor fixes and performance improvements.

January 30, 2023 - 9.0.0

• More detailed rendering of SVG Maps
• New bottom sheet layout for larger devices
• Full direction step list shown in direction assistant bottom sheet
• Several minor location sharing profile bug fixes
• Remove iOS 13 support

November 16, 2022 - 8.5.0

• Fixed an issue returning to the app from a placemark weblink.
• Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.

September 29, 2022 - 8.4.0

• Fixed an issue attempting to display locations with no uploaded maps.
• Fixed some minor localization issues.

July 20, 2022 - 8.3.0

• Added Ukrainian support.
• Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.

May 18, 2022 - 8.2.0

• Added Settings Screen.
• Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.

March 10, 2022 - 8.1.0

• The accessibility button is now more visible when in the selected state
• The account screen has been removed

January 12, 2022 - 8.0.0

• Added trigger demo.
• Dropped iOS 12 support.
• Dropped campaigns support.
• Dropped whitelabel support.
• Dropped Keen Analytics support.
• Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.

Below here Includes White-Label apps

December 8, 2021 - 7.5.0

• Fixed intermittent crash that might affect some users during normal use.
• Minor UI updates to support iOS 15.

September 22, 2021 - 7.4.0

• Various minor improvements and fixes.

July 21,2021 - 7.3.0

• Fixed an issue with location permission popup.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

May 12, 2021 - 7.2.0

• Bug fixes and minor improvements.

March 10, 2021 - 7.1.0

• Enhanced end of life messaging.

January 14, 2021 - 7.0.0

• Updated translations.
• Removed support for iOS 11.

November 19, 2020 - 6.6.0

• Improved Tag search to return information sooner.

September 9, 2020 - 6.5.0

• Directions search no longer shows the starting location as a potential destination.
• Fixes infrequent crash that might occur during beacon ranging.

July 20, 2020 - 6.4.0

• GPS now available as a source for location sharing on outdoor maps.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

May 6, 2020 - 6.3.0

• Various minor improvements and fixes.

March 26, 2020 - 6.2.0

• Various minor improvements and fixes.

February 28, 2020 - 6.1.0

• Various minor improvements and fixes.

January 30, 2020 - 6.0.0

• Fixed: Issues related to iPhone 6.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

December 12, 2019 - 5.10.0

• Improved: Added link to the HPE privacy statement.
• Improved: For security reasons, app preview URLs now require a login.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

November 4, 2019 - 5.9.0

• Improved: iOS 13 requires split-screen multitasking support for iPad apps, and so we’ve added support for this.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

September 26, 2019 - 5.8.0

• Improved: Aruba Meridian and AppMaker apps using this version will no longer support iOS 10.
• Improved: With iOS 13, the app will no longer need to request Always On location permissions, and now it won’t.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

September 5, 2019 - 5.7.0

• Fixed: With location sharing, if you don’t have an account image, you’ll have an orange icon instead of a black one.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

July 25, 2019 - 5.6.0

• Improved: Removed the Bluetooth permission screen, because it’s not functionally necessary on iOS.
• Fixed: When clicking on a link to an app that’s uninstalled, there wasn’t an error message to let you know what happened. There is now.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

June 27, 2019 - 5.5.0

• Fixed: Deep links into another location weren’t working.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

May 30, 2019 - 5.4.0

• New: AppViewer is being renamed to Aruba Meridian.
• Improved: The Search tab has been removed in favor of a Search card on the Maps tab.
• Fixed: UI issues related to iPad and iPhone SE.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

April 29, 2019 - 5.3.0

• Improved: On iPad, slide-up sheets only slide-up about halfway now, instead of up the whole screen.
• Fixed: On iPads, list style Featured screens weren’t displaying correctly.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

April 4, 2019 - 5.2.0

• New: Added Swedish language support.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

February 28, 2019 - 5.1.0

• Improved: There’s a new app loading indicator for when things are taking a while.
• Fixed: Routes close to the edge of the top part of the screen were covered up by the direction instructions.
• Fixed: Tapping the Current Location button for a location on a different floor wasn’t zooming in on the blue dot as it should.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.
• Various UI fixes.

January 31, 2019 - 5.0.0

• New: Deprecated the Meridian App Sandbox.
• New: On Calendar pages when there aren’t any upcoming events, there’ll be a message to say so.
• New: Removed support for Urban Airship.
• Improved: Placemark search results won’t include placemarks on unpublished maps.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

December 13, 2018 - 4.10.0

• New: The GPS accuracy threshold is customizable with a new white-label Meridian-powered app release.
• Fixed: Campaigns with deep links to specific Pages, placemarks, or events in the app weren’t working.
• Fixed: If an Organization had Terms and Conditions, the Editor’s preview link users were sent back to the login screen.
• Fixed: In some cases when routing, the building and floor was left-aligned instead of centered, as it should be.
• Fixed: Location sharing invitations weren’t working.
• Fixed: On iPads, the slide-up sheet broke when rotating from portrait to landscape.
• Fixed: On Web Page type Pages set to Browser mode, the forward and back buttons were disabled.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

October 25, 2018 - 4.9.0

• Improved: When logging into an app, there’s an activity indicator to show that something is still happening.
• Improved: You can cancel requests, such as for directions, if they’re taking too long.
• Fixed: An issue related to placemark slide-up sheets.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

September 27, 2018 - 4.8.0

• New: When a user installs AppViewer or a Meridian white-label app for the first time, a series of screens will describe how Meridian uses Bluetooth, location services, and notifications.
• Improved: Added SSO OpenID prompt support to better handle multiple users on a single device.
• Improved: Removed support for iOS 9. Supports iOS 12.
• Fixed: A routing issue related to “Nearest” amenities.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

August 30, 2018 - 4.7.0

• New: Placemark detail screens have been replaced with slideup callout sheets.
• New: Terms of Service screen is presented to the user on first use.
• Improved: Tapping a Tag from search will show its location on the map, if possible.
• Fixed: A couple of issues related to location sharing.
• Fixed: Specific placemark types were sometimes showing the generic placemark icon.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

July 26, 2018 - 4.6.0

• Improved: AppViewer no longer clears the username after a login error.
• Fixed: A minor aesthetic issue with Slideshow Detail screens.
• Fixed: A minor aesthetic issue with some Placemark detail screen buttons.
• Fixed: A rare crash related to rotating the device a little too often in a short span of time.
• Fixed: An issue related to iOS 11 Smart Invert Colors.
• Fixed: Incorrectly showed the location selection screen for single-location apps.
• Fixed: When sharing location links with AppViewer, it was incorrectly requiring the user to log in.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

June 28, 2018 - 4.5.0

• New: Default placemark icons for the new “Desk” and “Device Charging” placemark types.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.

May 30, 2018 - 4.4.0

• Fixed: A variety of issues related to images on Pages and placemarks.
• Fixed: Campaign links to placemarks weren’t working quite right.
• Fixed: Details weren’t being shown for tapped area placemarks.
• Fixed: Made sure that Tag callouts have some left padding.
• Fixed: On Events detail screens, Launch this App wasn’t working.
• Fixed: On maps with incomplete routing, the app displays more helpful messaging when a route can’t be completed.
• Fixed: When placemarks were tapped, the slide-up sheet wasn’t sliding up reliably.
• Fixed: When using Directions to Here to create a route, the End Route button wasn’t working as expected.
• Various minor improvements and bug fixes.

April 27, 2018 - 4.3.1

• Fixed: Some label text was briefly, and incorrectly, italicized.

April 27, 2018 - 4.3.0

• Fixed: During account profile creation, selecting a photo cleared out text in the name field.
• Fixed: For locations with overview maps, when switching maps the watermark logo would move.
• Fixed: If you deleted a guest profile, and then tried to create another, it wouldn’t work. It does now.
• Fixed: Improved slideshow image swiping.
• Fixed: Landscape mode is disabled on phones.
• Fixed: Making sure that all Tag labels are displayed, regardless of how many there are.
• Fixed: Map levels are now in ascending order, as they should be.
• Fixed: Minor, aesthetic UI issues.
• Fixed: Some map buttons were the wrong size.
• Fixed: Tapped slideshow images weren’t centered.
• Fixed: The event’s Add to Calendar icon was wrong.
• Various minor improvements and bug fixes.

April 3, 2018 - 4.2.0

• Improved: If you only have access to one location, you’ll never see the Location Search screen.
• Improved: The app will retry failed requests to the Editor, instead of giving up the first time.
• Fixed: A bug related to placemark detail screens that only have events.
• Fixed: An internal testing issue.
• Fixed: Image+Text pages were taking a very long time to load.
• Fixed: Login prompts weren’t shown.
• Fixed: On Event detail screens, the URL wasn’t showing below Visit Website like it should
• Fixed: On iPhones and iPods, the search screen info text was overlapping the amenities list text.
• Fixed: On the Featured page, if a tile image didn’t load, the app would crash. It doesn’t do this now.
• Fixed: Sometimes the app would crash when searching for a placemark, and then tapping a result.
• Fixed: The View Samples App link is gone, as it should be.
• Fixed: The Login Name label wasn’t changing from its default, Username, no matter what was set in the Editor.

February 27, 2018 - 4.1.0

• Improved: App Domain has been removed from Events.
• Improved: App Links have been removed from Pages.
• Improved: On the login screen, added additional spacing to the logo to accommodate the iPhone X notch.
• Improved: On the login screen, you no longer View a Sample App. Now, you View a Sample Location.
• Improved: Removed a problematic UI element.
• Improved: The Location Sharing list had some spacing issues.
• Fixed: Call Us and Email were showing, even when those fields were blank in the Editor.
• Fixed: A minor issue related to the white-label app creation process.
• Fixed: A minor Location search issue.
• Fixed: A minor UI bug when an iOS device was setup as a Personal Hotspot.
• Fixed: A minor UI issue on iPad.
• Fixed: A minor VoiceOver accessibility issue.
• Fixed: A profile photo resolution issue.
• Fixed: A rare and obscure crash related to the Sample App.
• Fixed: AppViewer wasn’t showing PNG images when used as logos.
• Fixed: Minor UI issues related to iOS 9.3.5.
• Fixed: On an iPod, the slideshow image captions weren’t visible.
• Fixed: On iOS 9 and 10, an overview map-related bug that was essentially a snake eating its own tail and then crashing.
• Fixed: On iOS 9 and 10, tapping End Route would cause the app to crash.
• Fixed: On iOS 9 and 10, tapping on links on a Placemark detail page would cause the app to crash.
• Fixed: On iPad 2, a crash related to the Location list.
• Fixed: On Placemark or Page detail screens, the Call button wasn’t working.
• Fixed: On the Featured page, full width logos weren’t showing correctly.
• Fixed: Single Location white-label apps only show the one Location now.
• Fixed: When using a non-English language, the AppViewer icon text was incorrect.

January 31, 2018 - 4.0.0

• Fixed: Improved VoiceOver accessibility.
• New: A more modern look and feel.
• New: Dutch and Czech language support.

December 20, 2017 - 3.10.0

• Fixed: Users with a + in their email address weren’t able to login.

October 26, 2017 - 3.9.0

• Fixed: Some events weren’t showing up on Pages when they should have been.
• Fixed: The Send Email link was opening View on Map, instead of opening an email.
• Fixed: The AppViewer login error wasn’t very friendly. It’s more informative now about what went wrong.
• Improved: Updated messaging to clarify how the app uses location services and notifications.

October 10, 2017 - 3.8.1

• Improved: A minor UI issue.

October 10, 2017 - 3.8.0

• Fixed: If a web page couldn’t load, there wasn’t an error message stating that.
• Fixed: iOS 11 Location Service permission updates.
• Other miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.

August 28, 2017 - 3.7.0

• Fixed: A bug related to internal testing servers.
• Improved: We’ve replaced deprecated UIAlertViews and UIActionSheets with UIActionController.

August 2, 2017 - 3.6.0

• Fixed: A bug causing the Amenities tab to be replaced when Location Sharing was enabled.
• Fixed: A crash related to viewing a Tag on a map or getting directions to it.
• Fixed: An issue related to Nearest search results.
• Improved: Better messaging when a user tries to access an inaccessible location.
• Improved: The “Learn More” link points to a more informative page.
• Other bug fixes and performance improvements.

June 20, 2017 - 3.5.0

• Fixed: Expiring OAuth tokens were causing Location Sharing issues.
• Fixed: In AppViewer, it wasn’t possible to search for Tags by label.
• Fixed: Location Sharing links were broken.
• Fixed: Moving to new locations and pages API endpoints.
• Fixed: The Meridian Editor’s app sharing link wasn’t opening AppViewer.

June 8, 2017 - 3.4.1

• Fixed: Event pages were showing Directions to Here and Show on Map when there was no placemark present.

May 26, 2017 - 3.4.0

• Fixed: It was possible to create routing that would go off the screen.
• Fixed: On some devices, logging in with credentials on the Account screen wouldn’t create an account on the Friends screen.
• Fixed: There was an issue preventing the sandbox API from working.
• Fixed: We’re no longer querying for unnamed placemarks.
• Fixed: When switching locations the app would sometimes crash.
• Improved: A class related to Location Sharing would fail silently.
• Improved: Much better support for accessibility.
• Improved: Search support for an upcoming feature.
• Improved: Using the REST API endpoints for placemarks and events.

April 20, 2017 - 3.3.0

• Fixed: “Directions to Here” is coming back.
• Fixed: A minor issue with Location Search results.
• Improved: FlightStats has been deprecated.
• Improved: Internal testing tool.
• Improved: The map label now shows app loading activity.
• Improved: We’re hiding a new feature until it’s ready to be rolled out.

February 23, 2017 - 3.1.0

• Fixed: Event time zones weren’t working quite right.
• Fixed: In Location Sharing, the friends list was being carried over from previous account logins.
• Fixed: On Amenities and Search pages, there was an incorrect blue tint being used.
• Fixed: The app handled invalid default maps more gracefully.
• Improved: Directions to Here is now consistently View on Map.
• Improved: In Location Sharing, offline users are sorted to the bottom of the list.

January 27, 2017 - 3.0.0

• Fixed: For routes begun from a detail page, the back arrow/text was still there even after the route had been plotted.
• Fixed: On iPod Touch, descriptions weren’t loading on Image + Text pages.
• Fixed: When two placemarks had the same custom name, the app was only showing one of them.
• Improved: Placemark icons now use fill, instead of stroke.
• New: New white-label apps default to using SSL.
• New: Support for an upcoming feature.
• New: White-label apps have a flag to turn on the new blue dot compass.

December 22, 2016 - 2.6.1

• Fixed: In some cases, it wasn’t possible for users to update the Location Sharing profile image.
• Fixed: In some cases, the Location Sharing friend list wasn’t displaying.
• Fixed: One of the loading spinners was off-center.
• Fixed: The Location Sharing user name was displayed incorrectly.
• Fixed: There was a crash on launch.
• Fixed: There was a crash when switching locations.

December 7, 2016 - 2.6.0

• Fixed: Links with custom URL schemes work now.
• Fixed: Location Sharing guest profile images weren’t visible.
• Fixed: Placemarks that are associated with map levels wouldn’t open when the level callout was tapped.
• Fixed: Some background images were displaying pixelated.
• Fixed: The crashed when View on Map was tapped on hidden placemarks. Hidden placemarks don’t show on the map.
• Fixed: The loading spinner sometimes wouldn’t animate.
• Fixed: Trying to open a placemark detail page from the map would generate a ‘Loading Error’.
• Improved: Event detail pages now have View on Map.
• Improved: Logos look better on Detail pages.

November 4, 2016 - 2.5.0

• Fixed: There was a problem with location search on devices set to non-English languages.
• Improved: Location Sharing profiles now use a single full name field.
• New: iOS 8.0 is the minimum supported version.
• Updated: Meridian SDK 2.12.0.

September 27, 2016 - 2.4.0

• Fixed: Apps contained translations for unsupported languages.
• Fixed: On the Location Sharing splash screen, there was a color theming mismatch.
• Fixed: There was a crash related to logged-in user profile images.
• Fixed: There were issues when uploading a GIF as a featured image.
• Updated: Meridian SDK 2.11.0.

August 2, 2016 - 2.2.2

• Fixed: AppViewer wasn’t keeping track of token expiration dates. It will now proactively refresh the token when it expires.
• Fixed: In German, “Fuß” was used instead of “Meters”.
• Fixed: In multi-location apps, it wasn’t possible to swipe-to-delete friends from the friends list. This is now possible.
• Fixed: In Portuguese, “pés” was used instead of “metros”.
• Fixed: Some of our white-label apps were crashing on opening.
• Fixed: The wrong messaging was being sent when a user attempted to log in without a Wi-Fi connection.
• Fixed: There was a crash when a route had been plotted and the user accepted a share request from someone they’d already shared their location with.
• Fixed: There were times when error conditions would generate an endless spinner.
• Fixed: When manually entering a starting location for a route, the app would crash.
• New: AppViewer now uses the iOS Meridian SDK 2.9.3.

May 20, 2016 - 2.2.1

• Fixed: Events weren’t showing the correct time.
• Fixed: Some non-standard URLs weren’t opening correctly.
• Fixed: There was a crash issue related to visitor login.
• Fixed: When revoking invitations with a swipe, the app would crash.
• Fixed: When searching events, past events would be shown too.
• Improved: Various minor improvements.
• Updated: Translations.

April 28, 2016 - 2.2.0

• Fixed: 1Password integration was crashing on iPad using iOS 9.2.1.
• Fixed: AppViewer was sometimes crashing on iOS 7.x when interacting with the login fields.
• Fixed: For Location Sharing, friends weren’t showing in the Map Picker until their map was selected and loaded.
• Fixed: If a one day event started before 7am, the date/time wasn’t showing correctly.
• Fixed: If an app was opened with data disabled, the app wouldn’t load content when data was restored.
• Fixed: It wasn’t possible to zoom in on images, either singly or in galleries.
• Fixed: On iPhones, the Cancel button wasn’t visible when entering a starting point to get directions.
• Fixed: On the Account screen, the More Info section was truncated and inaccessible.
• Fixed: Smoky Tiles weren’t displaying correctly if a tile was missing an image URL.
• Fixed: Spaces in phone numbers were rending as %20 in the phone number modal.
• Fixed: The Location Sharing Friends List would crash when revoking invitations and then canceling that action.
• Fixed: There was a screen flicker when swiping right in the Location List.
• Fixed: When sharing was paused, it was still possible to use Show on Map and Get Directions.
• Fixed: White-label builds using AppViewer 2.0.3 would sometimes hang on the splash screen.
• Improved: AppViewer now uses SDK 2.9.0.
• Improved: If you have access to multiple locations, AppViewer now loads the last opened location.
• Improved: There are now “Today” and “Tomorrow” event labels.
• Improved: There is a loading indicator when opening web pages.
• Improved: We’ve added acknowledgements to AppViewer’s Settings.

March 16, 2016 - 2.1.0

• Added: An internal tool to indicate what server is being used by the app.
• Added: iPad Pro icons for Meridian-powered white-label app submissions.
• Added: New Location Sharing feature.
• Fixed: A minor issue causing crashes on iOS 7.
• Fixed: After logging out, it was possible to log back in simply by tapping Log In.
• Fixed: An internal debugging tool caused a crash.
• Fixed: An internal server issue.
• Fixed: For maps without Beacons, tapping “Directions to Here” would close the keyboard before anything could be input.
• Fixed: Grouped lists in iOS were arranged differently than on Android and in the Editor.
• Fixed: Issues related to an upcoming feature release.
• Fixed: It was possible to interrupt a route by interacting with placemarks.
• Fixed: Links to YouTube 360 wouldn’t launch in browser mode. Links now open in the YouTube app, if it’s installed.
• Fixed: No error message appeared if a webpage couldn’t be loaded. Now there is one.
• Fixed: Opening a URL with directions would cause a crash.
• Fixed: Phone links failed to dial because of URL parsing errors.
• Fixed: Tapping a placemark with a default name showed a list instead of the placemark detail page.
• Fixed: Tapping the Overview map button would bring up the Overview map with the directional text still visible.
• Improved: Partial search terms are correlated to what the user taps on. This will make the Editor’s Search report more useful.

December 21, 2015 - 2.0.5

• Fixed: Minor bugs.
• Improved: Search report analytics.

November 3, 2015 - 2.0.4

• Added: iOS 9 split screen support.
• Fixed: Crash when opening certain pages from search.
• Fixed: Miscellaneous bugs and improvements.
• Improved: Localization updates.
• Improved: Scrolling performance.

October 14, 2015 - 2.0.3

• Added: Support for iOS 9.
• Fixed: Miscellaneous minor bugs and improvements.
• Improved: Right-to-left localization.

July 30, 2015 - 2.0.2

• Added: Support for multi-day events.
• Added: Support for overview maps.
• Fixed: HTML tags and entities appearing in list descriptions.
• Fixed: iPad rotation issues.
• Fixed: Occasional missing tint colors.
• Fixed: Username/password fields clearing on failed sign-ins.
• Improved: Miscellaneous minor issues and improvements.

June 25, 2015 - 2.0.0

• Added: Location selection search and browse.
• Added: Support for new Meridian Editor AppMaker features.
• Added: Support for new Meridian Editor Reports feature.
• Improved: UI and visual design.
• Updated: Included Sample app.
• Updated: Meridian SDK.

June 18, 2015 - 1.24.2

• Updated: Embedded Meridian SDK to 2.6.7.

May 4, 2015 - 1.24.1

• Added: Crash reporting.
• Fixed: Several translation issues.
• Fixed: Minor bugs.
• Updated: Meridian SDK.

April 20, 2015 - 1.25.0

• Fixed: Google Analytics bug.

April 14, 2015 - 1.24.0

• Fixed: Several minor bugs.
• Fixed: Several translation issues.
• Improved: Analytics reporting.
• Updated: Embedded Meridian SDK to 2.6.6.

March 17, 2015 - 2.0.0

• Added: Flight stats page.
• Added: Campaign reset button.
• Added: Zone support.
• Fixed: Placemark page links with incorrect titles.
• Fixed: “Cannot reach server” error for white-label apps with a custom WHITELABEL_CLOUDSERVER.
• Improved: Design tweaks.

March 3, 2015 - 1.23.0

• Added: Support device registration for Campaign notifications via RTLS zones.
• Fixed: Analytics reporting compatibility issue.
• Fixed: Problem with French translations

February 9, 2015 - 2.0.0

• INITIAL RELEASE.

February 9, 2015 - 1.22.0

• Fixed: Placemark annotations could be mislabeled.
• Fixed: No default map crash.
• Fixed: Restored some missing placemark map icons.
• Improved: Now 64-bit compatible.
• Improved: Translations updated, now including British English.

January 26, 2015 - 1.21.0

• Fixed: Better handling of map callouts during directions.
• Fixed: Better rotation handling.
• Fixed: Campaign session tokens are now sent properly.
• Fixed: Campaign-based notifications now display a “View” button to launch associated content while the app is running.
• Fixed: Displays map title in Map tab header.
• Fixed: Event times are now displayed correctly for non-US time zones and locales.
• Improved: Directions controller now themed to match the rest of the app.
• Improved: Passes any custom editor URL from MeridianOptions.xml to the SDK.
• Improved: Placemark style is now the original themed style with a background that works with any map colors.