Documentation

26.06.13b

• Map admins can now reorder routes to control which one draws on top when routes overlap — in Edit Routes, click Reorder Routes and drag the routes into the order you want.
• Fixed the map page logging you out after about an hour when left open in its own browser window for monitoring; it now stays signed in for as long as the window is open.
• Fixed new incidents created by another dispatcher showing a blank Reporting Party on your dashboard until you refreshed; the RP now fills in immediately when the incident appears.
• Map markers no longer merge so aggressively: places, incidents, and units now only group together when they almost completely overlap, so you can spread out across a large event without constantly zooming in to find your units. Units always draw on top, with incidents above places, so the markers you care about most are never hidden behind another.
• Fixed map markers at the exact same location hiding one another at the closest zoom: stacked places, incidents, or units now automatically fan out when you zoom all the way in, so none stays hidden behind the others.
• Fixed: setting an assigned unit's status (RES, ATS, etc.) from the edit-incident screen no longer clears that unit's APRS callsign.
• Fixed: assigning a unit to an incident no longer overwrites the unit's destination with the incident's location.
• Fixed an intermittent issue where closing an incident (by unchecking "Open" on the edit form) could leave it lingering in the dashboard's Open Incidents list until a manual refresh. The dashboard now reliably drops closed incidents on its own.

26.06.13

• Reworked the map's Places and Routes editing for a clearer, less cluttered workflow:
  • The editing modes (Route Closure, Edit Places, Edit Routes, Service Area, Edit Unit Area) are now mutually exclusive — opening one hides the others, so the toolbar only shows the controls for what you're doing.
  • "Edit Routes" lets you click a single route to edit its name, category, color, and shape, instead of every route sprouting drag handles at once.
  • "Edit Places" works the same way: click a place to rename, recolor, move, or delete it, with the other places dimmed while you reposition one.
• You can now import routes from a GPX file (such as a ride or course export) in the map's Edit Routes mode: pick a detail level, category, and color, and Skylog builds the route. Very long tracks are automatically thinned — corners and turns are kept while straight stretches collapse to a few points — and you can fine-tune the result afterward.
• Routes can now show directional arrows indicating traffic flow; set a route's direction (Forward, Reverse, or None) when drawing or editing it.
• You can now track units that report their position from the aprs.fi phone app instead of over the air. On the unit form, set the APRS location source to "aprs.fi" and enter the station's aprs.fi ID (shown in its aprs.fi web address); their position then appears with an "APRS.FI" label.
• The dispatch center member list (DC Admin → Members) now shows how long ago each member was last active.
• The login page now reminds users to allow notification and location (GPS) access when the browser prompts, so dispatch alerts and unit positions work correctly.

26.06.08

• Added a Documentation page (this page) with release notes, reachable from the version number in the corner and from the user menu.
• Dispatch center admins can now see each member's email address on the dispatch center admin screen.
• Fixed the Settings menu so it works in admin mode (it previously bounced to the login page); it no longer appears as a dead link on the dispatch-center selection screen, where settings cannot yet be saved.

26.05.27

• Active weather warning polygons now appear on the unit dashboard map, color-coded by alert type.
• New setting to switch the order of the incident entry fields (Reporting Party / Description / Location) between the ham-radio and telephone workflows.
• Units can be given a geographic service area; the incident screen now flags units whose service area covers the incident's location.

26.05.09

• Bulk-import units from a CSV or JSON file on the dispatch center admin page.
• Geocode and map a unit's location directly from the unit form.
• Dispatch center admins can copy a center's configuration — including its map — to another deployment.

26.05.07

• New incident reminder/tickler feature with pop-up alerts at the scheduled time.
• A reporting party entered with a trailing period (for example "BOB.") now creates that unit automatically.
• Unit notes can be added and are shown on the map (hover or click) and on the unit list.
• New setting to choose the order of the unit status buttons.
• Dispatch center cloning was generalized and the dispatch center admin screen reorganized.
• Map routes can now be edited, their line width adjusted, and they fade out as an event progresses.
• Fixed re-opening an incident not refreshing the list of available units.
• Fixed the mobile map not staying hidden when toggled off.
• Fixed an error that prevented saving dispatch center member changes.
• Fixed route closure points snapping to the wrong vertex on the first update.

26.04.21

• The dispatch center map is now copied automatically when a new center is created from an existing one.

26.04.17

• Weather warnings are now plotted as polygons on the map.
• Map warning polygons link through to their alert details.
• Improved weather-alert handling: watch extensions, expansions into the service area, and SVS updates to severe-thunderstorm and tornado warnings.
• Additional SVS/WCN bulletins are appended to the raw alert text.
• Map auto-zoom now accounts for the dispatch center's service area.
• The unit username now appears on the create-unit screen.
• Clearer service-area editing — removed the confusing double-save step.

26.04.16

• New dispatch center service area feature.
• Optional county overlay on the map.
• Fewer false weather incidents thanks to more accurate alert matching.
• Warning expiry now cancels the correct alert segments.
• Clearer warning when a dispatch center admin adds a user who already exists.
• More comfortable spacing on table rows.