SIKU Web App Release Notes

Tuesday, Jan. 26th, 2021

⭐ New

• Added 6 new Remote Weather Stations operated by the Northern Environmental Geoscience Laboratory in Nunatsiavut.
  • Black Tickle-Domino Weather Station
  • North West River Weather Station
  • Postville Weather Station
  • Rigolet Weather Station
  • Cartwright Junction Weather Station
  • Red Bay Weather Station
• Added ability to manually refresh the map centre point date offset display for temporal base maps.

👍 Improvements

• Refactored Remote Weather Station framework and UI to more easily add new stations in the future
• Adjusted the colour of text labels on the map for various base maps to increase legibility
• Added support for Ice Watch Stewardship
• Community profile for Postville now displays current weather conditions based on the Postville Weather Station.

Tuesday, Jan. 19th, 2021

⭐ New

• Added regional feeds Accessible via Explore menu

👍 Improvements

• Added a “Copy Link” option to the sharing menu for all entities
• Improved menubar navigation when using siku.org on a mobile device
• Tagged all existing communities with appropriate regions

Thursday, May 7th, 2020

👍 Improvements

• Optimized layout of photo in feed and detailed view for a portrait photo
• Fixed traditional place names with non-Unicode characters

Friday, May 1st, 2020

⭐ New

• Goose Watch Feed – See a single feed which lists all species of Goose on SIKU
• SIKU First Goose Competition – The competition is now on with promotion and a video on Facebook and SIKU. More details at https://siku.org/first-goose

👍 Improvements

• General Improvements to Social posts
• You can now Command/control-click on the “More Details” of a feed item to open it in a new tab
• Bugs fixes and other improvements
• SIKU URL structure has changed. If you are using links in your presentations they may need to be updated.

Monday, March 30th, 2020

⭐ New

• A completely new design of Map Filtering
• Replaced the “legend” button on the map with a “Map Filter Button”. This button opens a panel with advanced options to filter by date, tags and types. This enables entirely new ways to filter the map. Eg. You can now show all of a users trip tracks on the map at the same time
• Trips now automatically generate featured photos which displays the track and any linked posts on the map. This photo is shown in the feed and included in any shares to Facebook or Twitter.