November 2024

Appraise Release, Tuesday 19 November 2024

Words By

Jamie Rumbelow

A futuristic vintage painting of an aerial view of an industrial site in the UK, cranes and housing, lots of excitement and movement

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

This release adds some new datasets, a few bug fixes, and some quality of life improvements.

New Features

The big new addition is that we now show the ownership of UK land registry titles:

Huh – Hampstead Heath is owned by the Mayor.
Cool.
We'll tell you if it's a local authority, UK corporate, overseas owner, or housing association.

We don't have data for private ownership - for that you'll need to buy the title deeds. But this is a good start!

And a small quality of life improvements: appraisal info can now be copied to clipboard:

Lots of values are now copyable
Click on the clipboard and the value will go there

Enhancements

  • We got rid of the landing page - now, when you go to Appraise, you'll go straight to the map
  • Some tweaks to the content of the ALC grade 'info' box
  • New dataset: contour lines
  • New dataset: public rights of way
  • New dataset: schools
  • New dataset: trees

Here's a sneak peek at the new contour lines and schools dataset:

You even get school capacity numbers

Bug Fixes

  • Planning constraint layers spin when pressing the Cmd + Right Arrow key
  • Zooming in past base map max zoom still zooms feature layers

Words By

Jamie Rumbelow

Jamie is cofounder and CEO of Tract. He has a philosophy degree, and is writing a book about London.

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