Platform release notes
CM = calculations modules
Release 2.3.2 - 11.04.2025
User experience improvements:
- "Stop CM" blinking button behaviour fixed
- Improved management of canceling running CM
- Map zoom and movement allowed when a CM is running, but unselect blocked
- Found and fixed a backend issues that may have slowed down the platform (improved behaviour of platform for user)
- Unification of layer categories (uppercase, between panels)
- Version displayed in navbar, and more advanced version information displayed in "user" window (useful for user assistance)
- In CMs tab, when a CM is selected, the title of the CM and the "go back" button now stay at the top of the tab
Bug fixes:
- Import of inputs in CM
- Links to standalone CM's wiki
- Auto update of list of personal layers upon upload
- Results of personal layers are removed when layer is unchecked
- Added a security timeout on GDAL operations in the backend, to prevent potential resource leaks
Release 2.3.0-06.03.2025 & 2.3.1-20.03.2025
New:
- Sharing layer with selected email
- New layers of population
- New layer VKT form gravity model in mobility section
- Possibility of returning csv or zip files via CM in addition to the results displayed
- More charts options for CMs results
- Custom legends or no legend allowed for CM layer
- Popup message to warn users about production release
- Upload of personal geojson layers
- Button to access to the website: https://project.citiwatts.eu/
- Wiki link updated: https://citiwatts.github.io/wiki/welcome-page/
User experience improvements:
- Tooltip showing the available scales for running CMs
- Improved list of layer when uploading a file, grouped by category
- Order of calculation module
- The data for a point of a personal layer of type industrial (excess heat, subsector and emissions) can be viewed by clicking on the map
Bug fixes:
- Upload of geojson file at hectare level to select area on the map
- Surface calculation redesigned for greater precision
- Slider default value in calculation module
- Column name when exporting result of layer
- List of snapshot on small screen
- Fix unit and value of mobility layers
Calculation modules:
- Add CM District Heating Temperature Level
- Remove unused CM vehicule stock at NUTS2
Release 2.2 - 28.11.2024
New functionalities
- Home page with project information
- New login and registration system:
- Better registration experience
- User stays logged in between tabs
- Satellite map set as default in order to better visualize the layers
- Unselect all layersÂ
- Update logos of partners and cookies information
- Snapshots working with personal layers
Calculation modules:
- Export CM inputs and results in a csv file
- Import inputs (csv file) in CM in order to rerun with the same parameters
- Mouse-over with information on input selection can be set by CM developers
- Search bar on CM tab
- Layer results can directly be saved in personal layers and reuse as input layer (if the CM developers configures it)
- CM results can be text
User experience improvements:
- Menu : auto close menu, synchronize checkbox of shared layer (if the shared layer selected is a personal layer)
- "Files" popup window: % of usage, confirm deletion of personal layer
- Add some tooltips
- Better error messages for layer results
New calculation modules:
- EnergyPLAN
- District cooling
Bug fixes:
- Region in Denmark in LAU2
- Blurred layers: increased zoom level for calculation modules and personal layers
- CM working at hectare level selection
Release 2.1 - 05.06.2024
New functionalities:
- Mobility layers available
- Feedback form
- Longer CM session name (default: timestamp)
- Export indicators of CM include input
User experience improvements:
- Error messages were made more explicit
- Removed all reference to "Hotmaps"
- Auto completion in search
- Standardized navigation bar
- Information about terms NUTS and LAU, OSM replace by road
- Selection tool improvement
- Calculation module menu: not all CM available with explanation
- Persist cookie choice
New calculation modules:
- Commuting distance recharge
- District heating economic assessment (without Gurobi)
- District Heating Supply dispatch (without Gurobi)
Bug fixes
- Symbology replaced by "legend", graphic replace by "chart" and cities replaced by "city"
- Google Chrome : email address was being suggested by the autofill in the location search bar
- Navbar was moving when changing selection tool
- Hide Heat density total 2
- CM cancelled when going back to CM list and not just failing
- Dropdown list in results panel working
- Electricity chart hidden if layer no selected and a message is displayed
- Format of results export
- "-" button at each layer category hide the category
- Border of area always above other layers
- Export default data set of CSV layer (instead of opening the file in new tab)
- Layer cannot be shown on map and disabled in the menu anymore
- Personal layer check of all type of layer
- All links shown as clickable
- Selection Tool: square and circle selection had an unexpected behavior
- Leaflet Attribution were partially hidden after using the Selection Tool
- CSV export of graphs and indicators was not correctly formatted
- CM charts were not displayed as the proper chart type (Demand Projection)
- Results dropdown list was sometimes disappearing
- Renaming of files in feedback form to avoid failed request caused by some characters
- "Clear zones" button could be active with zero selected zones
- Specific error with personal layer fixed
- Snapshot hidden when not logged in