Minor improvements

Posted by AaronClausen

 18 Feb 2025

Hi All,

New "My dashboard" functionality

Everybody now has their own "My dashboard" which you can find in your user dropdown menu OR from the breadcrumb navigation on your user profile page. Your dashboard gives you an overarching snapshot of all your nature mapping efforts at a glance.

This aligns to the existing dashboard functionality that is now available in many places throughout NatureMapr.

Dashboards will see continued improvements and richer metrics become available over time.

 

Retiring of legacy "Unidentified" section

Since 2013, NatureMapr had a dedicated "Unidentified" section, which was a large bucket of all unidentified sightings for moderators to check periodically at their discretion.

This page has grown to the extent that it is not sustainable to maintain going forward.

But the good news is we have replaced it with some even better functionality that aligns much better to our architecture vision.

To view all Unidentified sightings, simply go to any level 1 category (or in fact any category at all) E.g. Insects and click the new "View unidentified" button.

The sighting list will be immediately filtered to display Unidentified sightings only.

This consolidation has enabled us to decomission a large part of the system that was placing considerable strain on both our infrastructure and ourselves in hosting and managing it.

 

8 comments

   18 Feb 2025
Excellent, as ever !
kasiaaus wrote:
   18 Feb 2025
Great that you found another thing to simplify and make it better at the same time :-) and I love the dashboard :-)
WendyEM wrote:
   18 Feb 2025
Thanks for all the ongoing hard and excellent work.
Harrisi wrote:
   19 Feb 2025
Had a squizz, nice work! I may have missed this mentioned but the ability to look up NatureMapr regional boundaries seems to be gone? I often consult local boundaries in planning a day/s out. I can use the 'add a sighting' map and this is useful though does not have the boundaries? Apologies if I have overlooked or not read something.
AaronClausen wrote:
   19 Feb 2025
Hi @Harrisi the "view full/detailed boundary" page was retired due to performance and maintenance considerations as it had to render thousands of points in real time and was heavy on our infrastructure. The platform allows you to upload from anywhere and will route your sighting(s) to the correct region automatically.
Harrisi wrote:
   19 Feb 2025
Thanks Aaron, I fully understand and appreciate the need to rationalize and streamline operations; whatever it takes to keep us afloat, I'm right behind yuz!
AaronClausen wrote:
   19 Feb 2025
Thanks for the support @Harrisi - yep we have to run a tight, streamlined operation or we are cooked!
KorinneM wrote:
   Yesterday
It took me a minute to figure out where to go once the unidentified disappeared off the main menu, and then I was fine. ;-)

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