The PlaceChangers platform

What's new

Jan 2024

New consultation widget for external pages

We've fully overhauled embeddable widgets. You can now configure consultation activity previews to include an updated map preview and, optionally, feature consultation content for quick access. 

Nov 2023

Generate locations from photo import

You can now generate new locations from geo-referenced photos making it even easier to generate and show street views in consultations. 

Enhancements: Further consolidation and clean up of public views for projects with multiple consultation stages

We have been busy applying tweaks, bug fixes to enhance project pages for projects with multiple consultation activities and stages. 

Oct 2023

Automatic identification of duplicate ideas

PlaceChangers now helps you identify similar participant ideas by content and location. It's especially useful in map consultations. 

Sep 2023

Export enhancements: Export web links for each user-generated map annotations

Data exports now include a unique web link for each idea generated on the map so to speed up cross references during manual consultation response analysis. 

Clean ups: Upgrades of our front end libraries

We are keeping in lockstep with upgrades of important front end libraries. This month we performed substantial upgrades of our front end facing code so to enhance performance and reliability

Aug 2023

Improved Street View 

New capabilities to easily add street views on consultations. Set location and bearing to clearly indicate the position and view direction for a view. Great to avoid any confusion on side of consultation participants. 

Updated: Automatically suggest analytics for health impact assessment criteria

Enhancements so to improve speed and reliability of generating health impact assessments. PlaceChangers platform now auto-suggests relevant analytics / evidence on relevant relevant criteria. 

Updated: Custom brand and font styles

Further consolidation and enhancements of custom brand and font style settings for consultations. Tweaks to ensure all styles are pulled through consistently. 

July 2023

Updated: Consolidated support bar

We worked to make customer support easily accessible to users. All support items (link to knowledge base, help centre, email and live chat support) are now consolidated in a single support bar. 

Updated: Better life cycle handling for consultations

Improved life cycle handling for consultations, which now have status of 'draft', 'live', or 'completed'. For health impact appraisals you can now assign author, status and state those on print outputs. 

Updated styling: New horizontal navigation

New horizontal navigation in consultations for easier access to map feedback and survey / polls. Bonus: New settings to set maps to either open with satellite or standard base map in consultations.

June 2023

Updated: Census age, ethnicity, housing affordability datasets

Updated datasets including age, ethnicity, housing affordability for study areas. Bonus: total population count for your study area. 

Custom brand colours and font styling

You can now set custom brand colours for buttons and custom typography for your consultation to adapt to your brand!  

Quick response summaries assisted by AI

For any open questions on consultation content items or in participant surveys, PlaceChangers now gives you the option to perform a quick summary. 

May 2023

Edit consultation promotion jobs 

You can now edit previously saved promotion jobs (postcard distribution) if your outreach changed.

New datasets: Energy grid substation capacity and existing energy generation

In place analytics, you can now see substation overhead capacity and existing power generation (>1 MW) in the North East of England (Northern Power Grid).

April 2023

New: Map of sites on account dashboard

See all your sites and projects on a map. Access projects easily. 

Improved: Topic identification in comments

Improved identification of topics in consultation responses and duplicates in open annotation consultations so to cut time analysing and finding duplicates.

March 2023

New: Auto-identify location for open map campaigns

Your open idea consultations now auto-identify the street and postcode details for ideas generated in your consultation. 

New: Basic housing energy efficiency analytics

Place analytics reports now provide benchmarked overviews of energy efficiency for all properties within your study area. 

Improved: Anonymise reports for consultations with personal details

You can now easily generate anonymised reports for consultations which collected personal details (e.g. name, address).

February 2023

New: Topic tagging now extended to ideas

Add topic tags to ideas generated in your project and accelerate your analysis of your responses

New: Upgrades to place analytics

Substantive upgrades to place analytics. Planners can now tap into a wider range of place insights in one place: 

  • Housing market insights: rental levels, price paid per area (postcode level), price paid national benchmarks

  • Housing affordability: Per household affordability, household income levels

  • Constraints: Flood risk areas near your site

Improved: Consultation guided tour - user experience tweaks

Based on feedback a number of tweaks were made to enhance the user experience. Guided tours now have a defined start and end point. Guided tours now point to the participant survey on the last tour step.

Improved: Place analytics user experience

We added a new progress indicator to summarise the overall progress pulling in analytics and completing analytics jobs. 

Bug fixes: Housing analytics

We have tackled a bug where some KPIs would have incorrect estimates for unknown values. 

Jan 2023

New: Pages in consultations

PlaceChangers are leaders in interactive consultations using proposal maps. For instances where you prefer not to show a map, PlaceChangers consultations now support consultation pages linked to guided tour steps.  

Improved: Satellite street base map

New base map including street names and satellite imagery. Satellite is great for some projects. Added street names help users with orientation. 

Improved: 3D model load performance tweaks

We've done some magic (e.g. updates to our infrastructure) to load 3D models and 3D proposal maps faster than before. Load times should have improved 10x in some cases. 

Lots of bug fixes

We've tackled bugs for enhanced stability, including (1) guided tour bugs - duplicated tour steps, or infinity loop if removing certain content types; (2) improved auto map zoom  

Dec 2022

New: Housing analytics

New in place reports: Generate analytics on existing homes in a few clicks. Generate insights such as property types, tenure, number of bedrooms for homes in your study area. Bonus: See benchmarks so you can quickly see over or under provision of specific housing. 

New: Visualise housing analytics on a map

Get easy and quick visual feedback on the make up of housing in a particular area by visualising housing characteristics by UPRN location. 

Nov 2022

Improved: Model handling for 3D consultations

We've enhanced performance of 3D consultations with multiple models. For example, you can now choose to mirror 3D models to save bandwidth. The 3D viewers were upgraded and we optimised load times. 

Oct 2022

Improved: Consolidated contact management

If your project has multiple consultation stages, PlaceChangers now provides a single contact list which consolidates contacts for respondents across multiple consultation stages.

Improved: Place analytics tool optimisations for architects

You can now export to popular file formats that work in graphics design tools. Draw on powerful analytics and generate visual assets for your brief documents, that you can edit in your graphics design programme.  

Sep 2022

New: Automatic map for participant postcodes

After multiple user requests, we are please that the consultation reports now provide you with a map of participant postcodes, if they were included as a question in your consultation. It makes it super simple to understand the geographic coverage of responses. 

New: App navigation now has a slim line bar for quick access

We have overhauled the app navigation for consistency, predictability, and ease of access. The navigation menu is now the same across all aspects of the app and provides a new 'mini' menu which keeps main app views in reach at all times. 

Aug 2022

Improved: Large BIM models and 3D consultation optimisations

3D consultations have been optimised to support large 3D building models. 3D consultations now support diverse 3D model formats in the same consultation (e.g. FBX and IFC). You can also now define if a consultation opens in 3D or 2D by default. 

July 2022

Improved: Delete projects layouts, consultations

Sometimes even apparently simple things take time: You can now mark projects, layouts, and consultations as deleted. Deleted items are removed. 

New: GP capacity, school capacity, crime incidences now in site insights

Draw on critical indicators that enable you to plan in health improvements and prioritise interventions in the local area. 

Tweaks: Complete overhaul of consultation reporting

This month, we've taken everything we know about how you use the consultation dashboard and revised the consultation dashboard. The dashboard is now speedier, and able to deal with large volume of response. The detailed report is now replaced by a list of each individual proposal, and a separate detailed report for each. 

June 2022

New: Idea moderation inbox 

A single place to moderate any ideas that need moderating. 

June 2022

New: Idea moderation inbox 

A single place to moderate any ideas that need moderating. 

May 2022

New: Theme sections in consultations

For complex projects, you can now add theme sections. Locations on proposal maps can be linked with themes, so that participants see only what's relevant to a theme.

April 2022

New: Hold ideas and suggestions for moderation

Idea submissions on the map can now be held for moderation so that you can choose which ones will be presented publicly. This is great for the production of local lists where submissions will require further vetting and review.

March 2022

Tweaks: Participant and admin notifications

As admin, you now receive timely email notifications once consultations are published or due to close. Consultation participants now receive handy reminders 2 days before consultation close dates provided they consented to notifications. This means everybody is kept up to date. 

New: Personal data collection for formal policy consultations

PlaceChangers toolkit now lets you configure personal data items (name, address, telephone) so that projects with certain statutory reporting needs can collate evidence on respondents.

Feb 2022

New team editor: Set up a team and populate a team section on project pages

PlaceChangers lets you easily generate project pages for larger projects which provide a 'wrapper' for multiple consultation stages. You can now also generate a team section to present your project team. 

New: Custom subdomains added to 'Premium' consultations package

If you are on our Premium consultations package, you can now specify a custom subdomain for your project, e.g. "yourproject.placechangers.co.uk"

Tweaks: Responses to custom questions now export to CSV

Responses to custom questions on locations are now available via the spreadsheet export and on consultation report dashboards. 

Jan 2022

Tweaks: Lots of minor bugs smashed and optimisations applied

Some of the updates include: Tweaks to confirmation emails and tweaks to  menu on consultation pages. We also smashed a bug which meant that the project editor would show an out of date site boundary. 

Dec 2021

New: Data use consent in consultations

You can now set up a data use consent dialogue. If it is set up, respondents to your consultation need to provide consent for the use of their responses before being able to respond.

Tweaks: Share consultation drafts with your team

You can now share consultation drafts with clients for review. 

Nov 2021

New: Use your 3D architectural model in IFC format in 3D consultations

This is a big feature update. Ask your architect to export your building design in the open IFC standard and use those models as part of interactive 3D consultations on PlaceChangers

New: Set up custom questions in your proposal maps

PlaceChangers Engagement tool now lets you assign custom question sets by proposal or location category. Use it to ask specific questions in relation to a specific area. Equally, you could ask respondents the same set of questions for, say, all green spaces to help appraise site options!

Oct 2021

Tweaks: Site Insights now also provides access analysis for schools, health institutions, and health food grocers

Plug in your site boundary and get detailed access analysis to these key local services.

Tweaks: PlaceChangers now auto-resizes large images to avoid errors 

Uploading large image files is now no longer a problem. Where previously you might have seen an error. The app now auto-reduces file sizes to a suitable size automatically. 

New feature: Leave a reply to responses you receive

Using the consultation dashboard, you can now leave a reply to any responses you receive on your proposals. Add a brief reply to questions or comments that might need clarification. You can reply in private or public (for all other respondents to see).

Sep 2021

New feature: Automatic topic and sentiment analysis

Consultation reporting just got a whole lot more powerful. Tap into automatic suggestions for topics and sentiment for each response you receive. Accept and reject topic suggestions as you please. Add your own topic keywords to speed up analysis and grouping into issues. 

New feature: Useful responses

Consultation reporting just got a whole lot more powerful. The app now provides you with suggested useful responses automatically. You can also point out comments you found particularly useful to improve suggestions over time. 

Tweaks: Save draft responses locally 

Based on popular user request, PlaceChangers Engagement tool now temporarily saves responses on the users local device as 'drafts'. Users can then submit those drafts whenever they are ready to do so. 

August 2021

New and improved: Participant likes 

If your campaign presents responses publicly, the app now lets participants 'like' other responses. This helps to avoid duplication and gives you a view on popular ideas. 

New and improved: Drag-and-drop guided tour configurator

You can now configure guided tours with a simple drag-and-drop editor. Simply choose the locations and proposals you like to make part of your guided tour, move them in the order you like, and you are good to go. 

New and improved: Interactive legends for all proposal maps

Map consultations now automatically include an interactive legend based on the proposals and themes included in your campaign.

New feature: Add keyword labels on responses for easier analysis

The consultation reporting dashboard just got a whole lot more powerful. You can now add topic keywords on each response you receive to speed up the analysis. It's particularly powerful if you work in a team. 

Default map settings: Satellite image now default

Based on popular request, satellite maps are now the default base map layer for all map engagement campaigns. 

July 2021

New feature: Coverage maps 

In PlaceChangers Site Insights, you can now generate coverage maps for a feature category at the click of a button. For instance, select public transport locations and define a walking distance. The app will draw a coverage map in an instant. Stop the guess work if your site is adequately covered with access to public transport. 

New feature: Satellite base maps switcher 

Based on poplar request, you can now toggle any map view to show either a satellite base map or a standard map. 

Tweaks: Auto-generate consultation area from site boundary

PlaceChangers engagement and consultation tools now automatically use the site boundary to configure initial consultation areas, so you don't have to. 

Tweaks: Consultation editor navigation tweaks

We brought the navigation for the consultation setup editor in line with the rest of the platform to raise consistency. 

Tweaks: Support for time zones

The platform now references all dates and times across the platform correctly against Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Consultations now close correctly at 11.59 pm of the the respective end date regardless of where in the world the consultation takes place.  

May 2021

New feature: Text formatting for location or proposal descriptions

You can now apply formatting to the description of any feature or proposal included in a consultation. This lets you add lists, paragraphs, or additional images. 

New feature: Question templates reduce the time required to set up new consultations 

Chances are you will be reusing a series of questions for all consultations. A good example might be a question on postcode or age. You can now save a set of participant questions as a template. Templates can be easily loaded into future consultations to reduce the time required to create a new consultation. 

Tweaks: Guided tour is now even more powerful

We have listened to user feedback and our own user testing. Guided tour now more fully featured than ever. Configure a series of proposals as a guided tour. Public consultation views will show participants a location preview and buttons to easily toggle between proposals. Take your participants on a tour and ask for feedback on places that are relevant. 

New feature: Apply colours to paths

You can now apply specific colours to paths that are part of your consultation. Say you want to indicate that a set of cycle paths are funded by different funders. Now you can do so by giving respective path features a different colour on the map.  

New dataset: Public transport locations dataset

We have loaded in official transport locations from the Department for Transport. Locations available include bus stops, rail stations, and metro stops. 

April 2021

Tweaks: Notification and sign up emails

Emails to consultation respondents now include confirmation on the number of responses they left as well as links back to the consultation they participated in.  

Clean up: Detailed report views now show submission dates, session ID. 

Based on popular requests, the consultation reports' detailed view now shows the date when a suggestion or comment was made and the respective session ID. 

Clean up: New "Add idea" button makes it easier to add new ideas to a consultation map

You remember this functionality with which consultation respondents leave suggestions anywhere on the map. Previously this worked by a simple click on the map. At times, this interfered with Zoom actions. We've now placed a simple 'add idea' button to the bottom bar. A click on it, enables participants to leave an idea anywhere. 

Clean up: Embedded consultation widgets now provide hints to respondents on zoom and click events 

If you have an existing website, it's best to provide a simple embed to link to a campaign. On click or move, the embed widget now shows a hint to open the campaign in a separate tab. 

New feature: Image overlays with world files 

If you use software such as VectorWorks, you can use these tools to create an overlay image with 'world file'. This world file tells the PlaceChangers platform where to place your image and makes manual overlays unnecessary. 

New feature: Project-level pages to summarise multiple consultation activities in one place

The platform can now provide you with a project-level page which lets you summarise and link to various consultation activities in one place. This feature is available on request.  

March 2021

New feature: Feature groups

You can now create feature groups. With this feature, you can group multiple features on your consultation together into groups (such as projects). Participants can filter for locations associated with a group on the map and also in the list view. In addition, your reports will now summarise responses by any feature groups that you configured - a powerful time saver. 

New feature: Features with multiple locations

You can now create features, such as house types, and apply them to multiple locations on your project. All responses to any of these locations will be summarised under a single feature.

Clean up: Improved usability on mobile

Map pop ups now perform better across both Android and Apple devices. 

February 2021

New feature: Embed videos and 360 degree images on locations

Nothing tells the story of your project better than a good render or video. You can now easily embed any video or 360 degree render on any point of interest in your campaign. 

December 2020

Clean up: Improved usability on mobile

Public consultation views have been tweaked for usability on smaller mobile devices. The response dialogue on map views is now consistently part of a location preview box, instead of being a separate element on the map. 

Oct 2020

New feature: CSV download for campaign data  

You can now quickly and easily export your public responses as CSV for further analysis in Excel or elsewhere.  

Aug 2020

New feature: Guided tour  

You can now define focus areas for your respondents. Focus areas will help take respondents on a tour. Respondent can toggle between areas and see the name of the area and a response question to consider. It's great if you have proposals in multiple areas, or want to ask for feedback on different areas near your site. 

July 2020

Clean up: Organisations & better team collaboration support

You can now set up organisations and add your colleagues. Inviting your team members to collaborate on setting up engagement campaigns and consultations will now be even easier. 

New feature: Sign up for updates  

You can now choose to show a 'sign up for updates' box on the landing page. Those who sign up get an automatic note when the engagement campaign or consultation is due to close and when it closed keeping everybody informed.

June 2020

New feature: Duplicate locations and visual improvements. 

Makes it even easier and quicker to set up lots of similar locations in your project. And as bonus: Interactive locations on the map now pulse making  them simple for participants to spot!

Clean up: Public views now even easier

We added a bunch of things that improve the user experience for members of the public. Locations that can be responded to now pulsate. It's now possible to jump to a location in the list view to the location on the map. All input elements have a new style to make it clearer where comments can be left. We also tidied up the participant questions view. 

May 2020

Duplicating projects now as easy as a breeze

Consultation projects can now easily be duplicated. Great if you work on a project with similar kinds of setup where you can set up a draft project, duplicate it as many times as necessary to adapt further. You might even use it to create templates. 

Widget for easy website interations

We now provide a simple widget that you can add to any other website in just a few clicks. The widget updates dynamically, so to show if the consultation is active or not and how many responses there are. Embed it anywhere you like. 

Contact lists (beta)

If you asked participants to leave you an email contact for follow-up, those email addresses are now presented in a new contact manager. 

April 2020

Clean up: Major tidy up

Based on user feedback, we've spent April with some essential house cleaning and dusting. In the process, we squished bugs that bugged our users for a while. Setting up projects and reporting should now be smoother all around. 

March 2020

Clean up: Consistent handling of locations

We have worked hard to improve the way locations are handled. This change allows for greater flexibility in handling user-generated locations associated with responses.

February 2020

New feature: Categories for featured locations

You can now setup categories for featured locations. This gives you greater customisability to present different categories on the map and also enable your respondents to search and filter by specific types of locations.

January 2020

New feature: Geo-localisation

User will now be able to see their location in relation to plans shown on the platform. Users can opt in to provide their location via the browser making it easier to orientate themselves in relation to propopsals. 

Bug fixed: Saving changes to multiple features

The project editor now saves changes to multiple features correctly

Sep 2021

New feature: Automatic topic and sentiment analysis

Consultation reporting just got a whole lot more powerful. Tap into automatic suggestions for topics and sentiment for each response you receive. Accept and reject topic suggestions as you please. Add your own topic keywords to speed up analysis and grouping into issues. 

New feature: Useful responses

Consultation reporting just got a whole lot more powerful. The app now provides you with suggested useful responses automatically. You can also point out comments you found particularly useful to improve suggestions over time. 

August 2021

New and improved: Participant likes 

If your campaign presents responses publicly, the app now lets participants 'like' other responses. This helps to avoid duplication and gives you a view on popular ideas. 

New and improved: Drag-and-drop guided tour configurator

You can now configure guided tours with a simple drag-and-drop editor. Simply choose the locations and proposals you like to make part of your guided tour, move them in the order you like, and you are good to go. 

New and improved: Interactive legends for all proposal maps

Map consultations now automatically include an interactive legend based on the proposals and themes included in your campaign.

New feature: Add keyword labels on responses for easier analysis

The consultation reporting dashboard just got a whole lot more powerful. You can now add topic keywords on each response you receive to speed up the analysis. It's particularly powerful if you work in a team. 

Default map settings: Satellite image now default

Based on popular request, satellite maps are now the default base map layer for all map engagement campaigns. 

July 2021

New feature: Coverage maps 

In PlaceChangers Site Insights, you can now generate coverage maps for a feature category at the click of a button. For instance, select public transport locations and define a walking distance. The app will draw a coverage map in an instant. Stop the guess work if your site is adequately covered with access to public transport. 

New feature: Satellite base maps switcher 

Based on poplar request, you can now toggle any map view to show either a satellite base map or a standard map. 

Tweaks: Auto-generate consultation area from site boundary

PlaceChangers engagement and consultation tools now automatically use the site boundary to configure initial consultation areas, so you don't have to. 

Tweaks: Consultation editor navigation tweaks

We brought the navigation for the consultation setup editor in line with the rest of the platform to raise consistency. 

Tweaks: Support for time zones

The platform now references all dates and times across the platform correctly against Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Consultations now close correctly at 11.59 pm of the the respective end date regardless of where in the world the consultation takes place.  

May 2021

New feature: Text formatting for location or proposal descriptions

You can now apply formatting to the description of any feature or proposal included in a consultation. This lets you add lists, paragraphs, or additional images. 

New feature: Question templates reduce the time required to set up new consultations 

Chances are you will be reusing a series of questions for all consultations. A good example might be a question on postcode or age. You can now save a set of participant questions as a template. Templates can be easily loaded into future consultations to reduce the time required to create a new consultation. 

Tweaks: Guided tour is now even more powerful

We have listened to user feedback and our own user testing. Guided tour now more fully featured than ever. Configure a series of proposals as a guided tour. Public consultation views will show participants a location preview and buttons to easily toggle between proposals. Take your participants on a tour and ask for feedback on places that are relevant. 

New feature: Apply colours to paths

You can now apply specific colours to paths that are part of your consultation. Say you want to indicate that a set of cycle paths are funded by different funders. Now you can do so by giving respective path features a different colour on the map.  

New dataset: Public transport locations dataset

We have loaded in official transport locations from the Department for Transport. Locations available include bus stops, rail stations, and metro stops. 

April 2021

Tweaks: Notification and sign up emails

Emails to consultation respondents now include confirmation on the number of responses they left as well as links back to the consultation they participated in.  

Clean up: Detailed report views now show submission dates, session ID. 

Based on popular requests, the consultation reports' detailed view now shows the date when a suggestion or comment was made and the respective session ID. 

Clean up: New "Add idea" button makes it easier to add new ideas to a consultation map

You remember this functionality with which consultation respondents leave suggestions anywhere on the map. Previously this worked by a simple click on the map. At times, this interfered with Zoom actions. We've now placed a simple 'add idea' button to the bottom bar. A click on it, enables participants to leave an idea anywhere. 

Clean up: Embedded consultation widgets now provide hints to respondents on zoom and click events 

If you have an existing website, it's best to provide a simple embed to link to a campaign. On click or move, the embed widget now shows a hint to open the campaign in a separate tab. 

New feature: Image overlays with world files 

If you use software such as VectorWorks, you can use these tools to create an overlay image with 'world file'. This world file tells the PlaceChangers platform where to place your image and makes manual overlays unnecessary. 

New feature: Project-level pages to summarise multiple consultation activities in one place

The platform can now provide you with a project-level page which lets you summarise and link to various consultation activities in one place. This feature is available on request.  

March 2021

New feature: Feature groups

You can now create feature groups. With this feature, you can group multiple features on your consultation together into groups (such as projects). Participants can filter for locations associated with a group on the map and also in the list view. In addition, your reports will now summarise responses by any feature groups that you configured - a powerful time saver. 

New feature: Features with multiple locations

You can now create features, such as house types, and apply them to multiple locations on your project. All responses to any of these locations will be summarised under a single feature.

Clean up: Improved usability on mobile

Map pop ups now perform better across both Android and Apple devices. 

February 2021

New feature: Embed videos and 360 degree images on locations

Nothing tells the story of your project better than a good render or video. You can now easily embed any video or 360 degree render on any point of interest in your campaign. 

December 2020

Clean up: Improved usability on mobile

Public consultation views have been tweaked for usability on smaller mobile devices. The response dialogue on map views is now consistently part of a location preview box, instead of being a separate element on the map. 

Oct 2020

New feature: CSV download for campaign data  

You can now quickly and easily export your public responses as CSV for further analysis in Excel or elsewhere.  

Aug 2020

New feature: Guided tour  

You can now define focus areas for your respondents. Focus areas will help take respondents on a tour. Respondent can toggle between areas and see the name of the area and a response question to consider. It's great if you have proposals in multiple areas, or want to ask for feedback on different areas near your site. 

July 2020

Clean up: Organisations & better team collaboration support

You can now set up organisations and add your colleagues. Inviting your team members to collaborate on setting up engagement campaigns and consultations will now be even easier. 

New feature: Sign up for updates  

You can now choose to show a 'sign up for updates' box on the landing page. Those who sign up get an automatic note when the engagement campaign or consultation is due to close and when it closed keeping everybody informed.

June 2020

New feature: Duplicate locations and visual improvements. 

Makes it even easier and quicker to set up lots of similar locations in your project. And as bonus: Interactive locations on the map now pulse making  them simple for participants to spot!

Clean up: Public views now even easier

We added a bunch of things that improve the user experience for members of the public. Locations that can be responded to now pulsate. It's now possible to jump to a location in the list view to the location on the map. All input elements have a new style to make it clearer where comments can be left. We also tidied up the participant questions view. 

May 2020

Duplicating projects now as easy as a breeze

Consultation projects can now easily be duplicated. Great if you work on a project with similar kinds of setup where you can set up a draft project, duplicate it as many times as necessary to adapt further. You might even use it to create templates. 

Widget for easy website interations

We now provide a simple widget that you can add to any other website in just a few clicks. The widget updates dynamically, so to show if the consultation is active or not and how many responses there are. Embed it anywhere you like. 

Contact lists (beta)

If you asked participants to leave you an email contact for follow-up, those email addresses are now presented in a new contact manager. 

April 2020

Clean up: Major tidy up

Based on user feedback, we've spent April with some essential house cleaning and dusting. In the process, we squished bugs that bugged our users for a while. Setting up projects and reporting should now be smoother all around. 

March 2020

Clean up: Consistent handling of locations

We have worked hard to improve the way locations are handled. This change allows for greater flexibility in handling user-generated locations associated with responses.

February 2020

New feature: Categories for featured locations

You can now setup categories for featured locations. This gives you greater customisability to present different categories on the map and also enable your respondents to search and filter by specific types of locations.

January 2020

New feature: Geo-localisation

User will now be able to see their location in relation to plans shown on the platform. Users can opt in to provide their location via the browser making it easier to orientate themselves in relation to propopsals. 

Bug fixed: Saving changes to multiple features

The project editor now saves changes to multiple features correctly

 
 
 

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