Full-Screen App View (Mobile)
Summary: A chrome-free, full-screen version of the map built for installing on a phone or tablet home screen, with its own Map/Radar/Both switcher.
Alongside the regular installable map page (see Installing the Map as an App), there’s a second, separate full-screen view purpose-built for phones and tablets – no WordPress site header, footer or navigation, just the map filling the screen.
Opening It
Click the Full-screen app view button (the mobile-phone icon) in the map’s corner button stack. Unlike the Radar button, this doesn’t open a new window – it takes over the current tab and loads the chrome-free view. You’ll need to be logged in; if you’re not, you’ll be sent to the login page and brought straight back here afterwards.
The Map / Radar / Both Switcher
A slim bar at the top of the screen lets you choose what’s showing:
- Map – just the live map, full screen.
- Radar – the same Aircraft Radar View scope, loaded directly into this view (all the same controls apply).
- Both – map and radar side by side (or stacked, if you’re holding your device in portrait).
Whichever you last picked is remembered on this browser, so reopening the app view later takes you straight back to it.
Installing It Separately
This view has its own “Add to Home Screen” install prompt, with its own name, icon and colour – separate from the regular map’s install prompt. You can install either one, or both, as separate home-screen icons; they open to different views, so it’s worth knowing which is which if you use both.
Not to Be Confused With “Installing the Map as an App”
That article covers installing the normal, themed map page (still with the site header/footer) as a home-screen shortcut. This full-screen app view is a different, second installable page built specifically for a distraction-free, phone-first map – not a replacement for it. Use whichever suits how you actually want to use the map day to day, or install both.