What Changed in October and November 2015

Monday 19 October 2015

Have been working on code for a map-based place selector. Very nearly finished but not quite ready for release yet.
Added a line on trip time to the route summary in response to issue 40.

Added a fifth selector box to address issue 36. This is an inelegant solution: I'd rather rewrite all the code to make it work on any depth (according to the zero, one, infinity rule) but this is a quick fix. Pushed this out as a pre-release patch.

Further improvements to list code to speed up adding values to an existing list. This gives a significant speed-up (10-100 fold) when accumulating many items one-by-one in a list (something that happens quite a lot).

Added code to create areas. Still need to propagate across place data and use them for things. Turned off in current release.
Added a report of the accuracy of your nearest place in response to issue 43. With some experience of this I can probably hide it when too poor.
Final adjustments to map-based place selector. This is still imperfect but I thought worth releasing as it stands.

→ Release 9.25.2

Added accuracy info to boat location tracking feedback
Reworked code for updating waterways (including distances) when database edits are made - to incorporate updates for hulls and areas (not written but have stubs) and to make more logical.
Fixed a long-standing bug where adding places to a very small number of canals (chiefly the BCN Old Main Line) broke the database [pre-release]
Added a trap for general broken database issues that tries to regenerate it [pre-release]

Fixed bug in selecting formats that caused history on "additional information" to cause an error (part of issue 50). Released as pre-release patch.
Fixed bug in code path that caused history on "navigational notes" to fail (but still errored)

Fixed bug where quicksearch didn't work for places with & in (not so much a bug, more an over-zealous sanitisation routine).

Removed updating statistics database as it isn't used and uses a lot of resources
Restored information on nearest navigable waterway to home page etc

→ Release 9.25.2.1

Added coloured tabs to edit mode of navigational note and place comments. Should have been done a long time ago!

Completed - I hope - area editing code, and added code to add external links to places, areas, features and waterways. None of this is quite fit for release yet, but it's getting there
Fixed a bug where your default starting place wasn't making it into the route editor screen (it was for the wizard). Did as a pre-release patch. Fixes issue 54.

Polished up external link code enough to make it releasable I think. Added half a dozen website as proof of concept.

→ Release 9.26

Added a fix for changes to the cookie-consent code (the new code, for unexplained reasons, didn't get on with Bootstrap so I had to move it around so it arrived after BS not before)
Added an auto-fill for the two text fields for adding a website. Not perfect (the parsing is basic) but surprisingly effective for a lot of sites.

→ Release 9.26.1

Added revision table for external website and code to include these in "new contributions" and the RSS feed.
Removed "sensor" parameter that Google used to insist on and now clutter up my log with warning about
Fixed a buglet in startup code for website display that was sometimes stopping some page JavaScript

→ Release 9.26.2

These two - and the last of the previous, all constitute issue(s) 57

→ Release 9.26.2.1