What changed in August 2018

To Sunday 19 August 2018

First stages of necessary changes to move to using an alternative to Google Maps, made necessary by their new rapacious charging policy.

→ Release 9.31.26

This adds capability to pull down waterway polylines
And to set bounds I can't work out if the zoom in feature is very nice or completely horrible, but it appears to be non-optional with my current state of knowledge.

→ Release 9.31.27

Place gazetteer maps now have other places labelled, and new labels get added as the map is scrolled or zoomed.
Map resizing by dragging now works
Fix to og:description tag

→ Release 9.31.28

A sudden brainwave - if I use multiple layers for place name labels, depending on size, I can get rid of all my custom coding around zoom levels and let mapbox gl do the work.

Rewrote the database engine - including using a new custom integer-to-ID function (needed to update sqlite to get this) - made it much simpler
Altered yesterday's JS to use this output and put things on six custom ordered layers in the map. Now works like a dream as you scroll and zoom in and out.

→ Release 9.31.29

Added summary maps for route planning. No daily maps, and no background waterways yet, but has the correct area map, the canal and the daily markers.
New code to set bounds and zoom of map based on data, so avoids the "show the world and fly in" on waterway gazetteers mentioned last Sunday
Experimental work to use custom tiles for place names instead of getting GeoJSON. Almost certainly a good idea (got proof of concept working), but leave until later.

→ Release 9.31.30

→ Release 9.31.31

Restored basic "add place" functionality. No maps at the moment, but some stop-gap code put in to calculate a default place so you can move on the gazetteer page.

→ Release 9.31.32