Maptales user group

We have just created a google group to serve as a forum for maptales users and beta testers. You are all very welcome to ask your questions, request new features or discuss maptales-related stuff there! (the developers are listening, too ;)

You can subscribe using the box below or visit the group now.

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We are watching our bugs!

Besides reporting bugs and feature requests (thanks to all who do!) you help us improve the maptales platform by simply using it. For every error that happens on our servers (there weren't that many ;), we get a notification by email and can immediately start investigating and fixing it. Over the last few days, we could fix some significant bugs that way - so if you were experiencing one of these and didn't send us a bug report, you might want to try again and see if it works now:

• Feeds should work now for stories without description
• Fixed encoding of feeds and some details - all our feeds should correctly validate now!
• Corrected timestamp auto-generation for newly drawn lines
• Locations in the user home screen can be clicked on to pan map there
  
• Fixed mailings for usernames with umlauts
• Fixed tagging when using , as tag separators
• Fixed cropping of profile image which would fail in some cases when a large area was selected.
• Tag autocomplete doesn't select first entry anymore (which was annoying)
• Links to stories and posts (maptales.com/view/1234) should work correctly now

Besides these fixes, we also added triggers for creating new posts and uploading images directly on the user home screen, which can now be used for basic content management tasks.

For this week, Flickr import is in the pipeline (already in testing phase) as well as improvements for line drawing and the first (alpha) release of Maptales mobile - so stay tuned!

Maptales is open for registration!

After getting more and more requests for invitation, we decided today to open up the registration for everyone!

Together with that move, we deployed an in-between milestone release (v0.M3.1759) with lots of improvements:

• New blog-like user home screen, showing recently posted items
• Publish mechanism to control who is allowed to see your stories and items (it even allows you to keep some items within a story private or to share them only with your friends)
• Introduced Wiki syntax for text in images, stories and posts (supports basic formatting, external links and cross-links to other items on Maptales currently)
• Greatly improved external view (will post an example here shortly) for integrating into your blog or website
• New line/route implementation based on GPloyline, which uses SVG in modern browsers (unfortunately even slower in Safari now)
  
• Lots of layout and performance improvements
  

Now hurry over to http://www.maptales.com/register and sign up as long as our servers are still up ;)