WalkDB development

New Release

2008-08-29T06:44:00.001-07:00

A new release of WalkDB is now available, this includes two updates:

The map on the homepage would previously rotate at random between various world cities. This now will always centre on your current location (falling back to a random city if this cannot be determined).
A fix to the code for landmarks, previous multi-line descriptions would cause errors, this has been fixed.

Deleting

2008-07-08T05:22:00.000-07:00

You have always been able to remove individual routes from WalkDB, for whatever reason - out-of-date, didn't like it anymore, etc.

Now you have the power to clear everything out of WalkDB, if you so wish (I hope you don't). Simply go to your page - i.e. click on your username at the top right of the window - and then click on "Account Settings". The delete button will remove everything from the system, but be careful, once clicked it cannot be undone.

Atom Feeds

2008-07-03T08:53:00.000-07:00

WalkDB now publishes Atom feeds.

In particular, there are two types:

What's New - This feed contains all routes added to WalkDB, it is autodiscoverable on the homepage; or manually at http://walkdb.appspot.com/feeds/new
User Feeds - This feeds contains all routes for a particular user, it is autodiscoverable on that users page, or manually at http://walkdb.appspot.com/feeds/users/USERNAME. For example user walk_db has a feed at http://walkdb.appspot.com/feeds/users/walk_db

Cosmetic Updates

2008-07-02T08:39:00.001-07:00

A new version of WalkDB has been deployed, this addresses a number of cosmetic issues. Compatibility with IE7 has been improved.

Editing

2008-06-25T07:20:00.001-07:00

It is now possible to edit a previously saved route. This is useful for a number of reasons:

Correcting a route.
Adding landmarks for interesting places along the way.
Adding the route distance (for routes saved prior to this being automatic behaviour).

To add route-distance to your route (that hasn't already got a distance), simply:

Log in
Click on your username in the top-right corner
Find the route from the list of the left hand side
Click 'edit'
Click 'SAVE'

The route will now also contain distance.

See other routes near yours

2008-06-23T10:28:00.000-07:00

New feature has been added to WalkDB. When on a page for a specific route, there is an option to see other routes in the same view. When selected, this shows markers for routes which work in the same way as the homepage.

For example, the route from Richmond to Hammersmith. Try clicking on the "Show other nearby routes on map" tickbox. Several other routes will be identified starting in Richmond.

Any comments, problems, etc., please leave a comment below.

New Feature

2008-06-23T07:25:00.000-07:00

Routes added to WalkDB now automatically calculate route distance. For example:

http://walkdb.appspot.com/route/449-Richmond%20to%20Hammersmith

Miscellaneous Update

2008-06-22T13:43:00.001-07:00

A new version of WalkDB has been deployed, fixing a couple of issues:

Searching on the edit page does not go back to the homepage, it now stays on the edit page allowing the use of the function to move the map mid-edit.
A number of IE layout errors have now been fixed.

Any comments, please leave a comment.

Compatibility Update

2008-06-21T11:44:00.000-07:00

WalkDB has now been updated and confirmed to work with Opera (9.5) and Internet Explorer 7.

WalkDB also is fully 100% functional with Internet Explorer 6, although there are a number of cosmetic issues.

IE8 Test

2008-06-20T14:27:00.001-07:00

The result of the recent test of WalkDB on IE8 is quite categorical - it doesn't work, in a quite spectacular way.

It's still fine in Safari and Firefox though.

I will be concentrating on improving compatibility with IE7 and IE6 (in that order) over the next couple of days.

Feedback

2008-06-13T13:07:00.000-07:00

Please leave any feedback on WalkDB in the comments below...

Welcome...

2008-06-13T12:51:00.000-07:00

...to the WalkDB development blog.

WalkDB is an online database for sharing and discovering walking (and jogging, and cycling, etc.) routes.

Currently in a pre-beta stage, the database might be dropped or radically changed at short-notice. When it is ready for promotion to beta status, it will be announced here.