Appraise Release, Tuesday 5 November 2024

We've just pushed a new version of our development appraisals tool, Appraise.

This release adds more visual information to the results page, some marketing ops improvements, and a few bug fixes.

New Features

We now show the relevant features of a site on the map itself, allowing you to see, for instance, where the flood zones are in relation to the site boundary:

The legend is interactive, so you can toggle the visibility of map features:

We've also added a 'return home' button in case you get lost:

Enhancements

• New dataset: historic parks and gardens
• New dataset: conservations areas
• New dataset: local nature reserves
• Results boxes will now display multiple features, not just the first one we find
• Appraise landing pages - we can now create custom landing pages for different marketing campaigns

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the calculation of boundary boxes for more complex polygons, which makes the initial results view, and zooming in on titles, more accurate
• Fixed an error in the telephone number regex, which was causing some valid numbers to be rejected
• Fixed an error with the World Heritage Sites Buffer Zones fetcher, causing it to fail when run out of order
• Tweaked the apostrophes (to use ’ rather than ')