What Changed in October, November and December 2024
What changed in January to September 2024
To Monday 21 October 2024
Huge push to get amenities up and running. Created or fixed code to:
- Build database from old POI files
- Get editing working
- Get map display working
- Put changes into the changes page and the RSS feed
- Summarise icons on routes to prevent several lines in certain cases
→ Release 9.43
Friday 25 October 2024
- Improved sequencing of amenity changes (better code as well)
- Fixed feed problem with amenities with special characters in them
- Work on moving amenities between places but not ready for release yet
→ Release 9.43.1
Wednesday 30 October 2024
- Improvements to amenity pop-ups
- If you click they are sticky, which enables
- Websites rendered as links
- Information field wiki-rendered allowing links
- Can move amenities to nearby places or to/from enclosing areas issue 1266
- Trap for attempts to visit options' - convinced this is probing not a bug
- Removed pre-compression from JavaScript files
→ Release 9.43.2
Friday 8 November 20204
- Further improvements to amenity popups: a dropdown for multiple amenities of the same type is provided and can be expanded
- A trap for silly search strings from BingBot to redirect instead of failing with an error
- A catch for some strange GPS extension that someone is using and that breaks the JS added
- A big upgrade to stations, thanks to data from Steve
→ Release 9.43.3
Wednesday 12 November 2024
- Catch for different stupid made-up search strings from sodding BingBot. You're lucky you're not in robots.txt by now: it's not as though anyone uses you.
- Fix for failure to tag boats when uploading photos
- Temporary fix to stop symbol edit completely failing - needs more work due to overlap between old symbols and new amenities
→ Release 9.43.3.1
To Thursday 12 December 2024
- Rendering of descriptions for amenities on maps to fix issue 1278
- Improvement from issue 1279 to automatically set the start or end date if you move the end or start to the other side of it. This does all suggested, and a bit more.
→ Release 9.43.4