CHANGELOG

Every time I upload a new binary release, I'll list major changes here.

0.1.0

  • First binary release

0.1.1

  • drawing arrows better
  • start with a splash screen, make it easy to change maps in-game

0.1.2

  • totally revamp GUI by organizing everything into distinct gameplay modes

0.1.3

  • new warp tool that autocompletes street names
  • hideable menus, place context menus better, remove top menu bar, add a simple OSD
  • loading screens reflect what's printed to the terminal
  • depict pedestrians and bikes with more detail
  • tool to scroll through an agent's route
  • make simulation speed controls actually work

0.1.4

  • improve stop sign editor UI (toggle entire roads)
  • better mouseover / selection rendering
  • better traffic signal rendering (show time left, use outlines for yields)
  • make cars actually stop and briefly wait at stop signs
  • improve edit mode diff visualization (cross-hatching)
  • render actual stop signs, not just red lines
  • fix intersection policies confused by conflicting straight turns with lane-changing
  • fix mac scrolling
  • better turn indicators
  • nicer unzoomed view of roads, with different colors for big/small roads

0.1.5

(release file size jumped from ~15MB to ~70MB because of new PSRC trips)

  • improve UX of intersection editors
  • define a better set of maps included by default
  • improve drawing speed by batching more stuff
  • better default traffic signal policies for many cases
  • import and visualize census data
  • fix missing sidewalks on downtown one-ways
  • import and visualize PSRC trip data

0.1.6

  • slider widget for controlling time and speed
  • fixing bad polyline geometry in most cases; visualizing routes should no longer be buggy
  • handle PSRC trips that begin or end out-of-bounds
  • draw agents in unzoomed mode in a way simpler way
  • improve edit mode: detect reverts to original, easier lane type switching
  • lots of fixes for buses: handle edits better, read sequence of stops correctly from GTFS
  • set up A/B tests faster

0.1.7

  • bulk and revert tools in edit mode
  • improve turns and default intersection policies when bike/bus lanes involved
  • new tool to manually hint for short roads and weird intersections. some problems have now been manually fixed
  • scoreboard of trip results for sandbox and A/B test mode
  • reduce lag when sim is running at full speeds, but system is too slow
  • switch to easbar's contraction hierarchy crate, making all pathfinding INSANELY fast
  • remove weird rules about the world freezing when traffic signals are in "overtime"

0.1.8

  • edit mode: convert to a ped scramble cycle, simplify stop sign editor by removing individual turns
  • ui: put labels next to sliders, organize modal menus into sections, add a minimize/maximize icon
  • A/B test mode: savestate, include time controls and agent following/route tools here
  • use more OSM data for turn lanes, turn restrictions from lanes, turn restrictions between entire roads
  • dont attempt to cross a traffic signal if there's absolutely no hope
  • improve bus route UI tools and make routes using transit more sane
  • user-defined shortcuts for jumping between views of a map

0.1.9

  • sliders to pick times in wizards
  • fix hidpi scaling
  • traffic signal diagram scrolls properly
  • easier to instantiate a scenario, show all trips involving a building for a scenario
  • colorschemes to show trip duration or time blocked
  • label buses with route number
  • represent overlapping pedestrians as a labeled crowd
  • massive performance boost via real priority queue
  • prevent cars from "blocking the box"
  • prevent all? aborted trips (due to parking blackholes mostly)
  • smarter roam-around-for-parking router

0.1.10

  • sim
    • parking in off-street garages and on-street lanes on the off-side of oneways now mostly works
    • detect and handle parking blackholes; cars should never get stuck looking for parking now
    • let lower-priority turns happen at traffic signals when higher-priority ones blocked
    • get closer to FCFS ordering at stop signs
    • basic opportunistic lane-changing
    • a bus should be seeded for every route now
  • demand data
    • show trips to/from buildings and borders
    • make PSRC trips seed and attempt to use parked cars
  • UI
    • different heatmap overlays, like parking availability and busiest areas
    • show colorscheme legends when relevant
    • interactively seed parked cars, spawn more types of trips
    • fix major A/B test mode bug (mismatched scenarios and map edits)
    • adjusting sliders, menu placement, dynamic items
    • consolidating different tools into a single info panel for objects
    • bus route explorer shows entire route, current bus location
  • map quality
    • degenerate intersections only have one crosswalk now
    • revamped the map editor for fixing geometry problems, used it in many places
    • nicer yellow center lines (dashed when appropriate)
    • handling OSM turn restriction relations properly
    • fix empty traffic signal phases
    • handling bike lanes on certain sides of the road
    • starting to upstream manually-verified parking lanes into OSM
  • new gameplay: reverse direction of lanes

0.1.11

  • small UI fixes: fixed width traffic signal diagram, skip info phase of menus when empty
  • start drawing (but not using) shared left-turn lanes from OSM
  • fix OSM polylines with redundant points (fixing an issue in ballard)
  • improved traffic signal policies in some cases
  • started upstreaming some sidewalk tags in OSM to fix inference issues
  • fixed misclassified right turns
  • adjusting map colors
  • handling lakes/ocean polygons from OSM way better
  • reorganized sim analytics, added stuff for bus arrivals
  • adding new internal road points to map editor. almost ready to really aggressively use it
  • skipping parking lanes with no nearby sidewalks, since they're unusable
  • fix z-order of bridges/tunnels in unzoomed view
  • allow unzooming indefinitely
  • move lots of sandbox mode controls (and other modes) to menus under buttons and dedicated buttons
  • basic support for marking a lane closed for construction
  • improved geometry of sidewalks at dead-ends

0.1.12

  • reorganize everything as different challenge modes. start implementing 3: optimizing a bus route, speeding up all trips, or causing as much gridlock as possible
  • improved bus route explorer
  • some UI fixes (popup messages in a few places, moving mouse tooltips to the OSD)
  • lots of analytics and time-series plots

0.1.13

  • analytics: prebake baseline results properly. hover over plot series. some new modes to see bus network, throughput of a road/intersection over time
  • log scale for the speed slider
  • add a bulk spawner in freeform mode (F2 on a lane)
  • rendering: nicer routes, crosswalks, zoomed car colors
  • map data: better stop sign and sidewalk heuristics
  • fixed the mac hidpi text rendering issue once and for all?!

0.1.14

  • better crosswalk generation when there's only a sidewalk on one side of a road
  • edit mode UI revamp: paintbrush-style buttons to apply changes to lanes
  • show error messages and prevent edits, like disconnecting sidewalks
  • properly ban bikes from highways (revamped rules for vehicles using a lane)
  • new freeform mode tool to spawn bikes
  • WIP (not working yet): make bikes prefer bike lanes. some debug heatmaps for path cost
  • edit mode has proper undo support

0.1.15

  • minor bugfixes with reverting lane types, preserving stop signs
  • incorporate edits into the challenge splash screen, make sure edits are reset when appropriate
  • starting a new challenge mode, just focused on traffic signals
  • can't leave traffic signal editor with missing turns
  • render pedestrian crowds on building front paths
  • traffic signals support an offset parameter
  • traffic signal visualization and editing revamped to group related turns together
  • can preview traffic using a signal from the editor
  • actually apply priority at intersections, so protected turns get first dibs over yield turns

0.1.16

  • fix Mac crashing with texture limit bug by switching to texture arrays
  • fix crashing simulation when a border intersection was used
  • started to implement a new UI design for starting the game

0.1.17

  • more work on the pre-game UI, with some flexbox layouting
  • prototype a minimap in sandbox mode. doesn't pan or scroll yet.
  • prototype a new speed/time control panel from the mockup
  • nicer time warp loading screen
  • record and show detailed trip timeline, including time to park

0.1.18

  • map data: infer more building addresses
  • some analytics on how long people spend parking and intersection delay over time
  • create an options panel, allowing runtime customization of color scheme, traffic signal rendering, etc
  • internal changes to map building pipeline to make it much easier for new devs to onboard
  • organizing challenges into sub-stages, starting to flesh out specifics for the fix traffic signal track
  • much more realistic pedestrian pathfinding
  • fix minimap on mac (dpi issues)
  • visual tweaks to cars to make front/back easier to distinguish
  • internal change to switch most assets from PNG to SVG

0.1.19

  • some challenge modes show a histogram for counting faster/slower trips
  • new visualization of current demand per direction at a traffic signal
  • implementing some of Yuwen's UI changes: agent counter, split time/speed panel, moved functionality out of the old drop-down menus into a bottom-left tool panel, hiding debug functionality
  • replaced right-click context menus with left click to open info panels
  • fixed random issues reported by people from HN

0.1.20

  • moved some UI functionality around, pulling graphs into info panel
  • interactive legend for the minimap, toggle visibility of different agents
  • nicer colors and shapes for cars
  • misc simulation bugfixes that might help huge_seattle
  • pedestrians choose to use transit more realistically, factoring in time for the bus to drive

0.1.21

  • switch some analytics dashboards to use buttons, not old non-scrolling menus
  • scrollbars... at least a start
  • preview traffic signal changes from live sim as the base
  • traffic signal preview has normal time/speed controls
  • traffic signal editor has undo support
  • minimap has buttons to pan

0.1.22

  • minimap zoom controls
  • traffic signal rendering overhaul
  • heatmap colors improved, heatmap appears on minimap
  • bus info panel, a start to live delay analytics

0.1.23

  • UI revamps: speed panel, minimap controls, heatmap chooser
  • bus timeline
  • hide internal IDs normally
  • limit map zoom
  • fix bugs with crosswalks conflicting with vehicle turns

0.1.24

  • overhaul traffic signal editor UI, and add redo support
  • update main edit mode UI, and add redo support
  • limit max unzoom
  • fix the infamous HiDPI bug once and for all; minimaps should work everywhere
  • almost bug-free support for floating, horizontally and vertically scrolling panels
  • overhaul top-center panel, rename scenarios to be less confusing
  • expose bus analytics outside of challenge mode
  • live info panel can exist during a running simulation
  • consolidated agent route/trip information into info panel

0.1.25

  • overhauled the tutorial
  • tuned top-center panel for sandbox and challenge modes
  • make bike and bus lanes more obvious
  • show map edits as an overlay anywhere
  • tune info panel contents, and show relationships between parked cars and buildings
  • fixes to traffic signal editor, like making all-walk conversion idempotent
  • nicer throughput and delay plots (sliding windows, grid lines)

0.1.26

  • tutorial improved in a few places
  • map data: thinner sidewalks, associate buildings with named amenities
  • traffic model: vehicles can spawn on all lanes from a border
  • much better gameplay speed (previously was too fast)
  • UI tuning: lane editor, minimap, signal editor, heatmap legends don't overwrite minimap
  • traffic signal challenge communicates score more clearly

0.1.27

  • edit mode revamped: click to edit stuff. no more lane paintbrushes. autosaving and save as.
  • tutorial: can quit and resume tutorial now
  • challenge picking flow simplified
  • UI: layouting fixes to full-screen / into stuff, popup menus go beneath buttons, plots improved
  • internal change to render all text using vector graphics. other than a few text layouting issues, shouldn't be noticeable, except now tooltips in plots don't get covered up
  • misc perf improvements (cache SVGs, drawing many circles for unzoomed agents, dont reload prebaked data)
  • upgraded winit, glutin, glium -- hopefully no new bugs introduced on any platforms

0.1.27a

  • patch to fix a crash with empty text dimensions on things like building info panels

0.1.28

  • all info panels revamped
  • some tutorial stages are much more clear, with an updating goal
  • traffic signal scorecard generalized to work for some tutorial too
  • adjust how selected agents look
  • X button on popup menus

0.1.29

  • new tool to convert between stop signs and traffic signals
  • lane editor easier to edit multiple lanes
  • info panels: IDs, mostly avoid horizontal scrolling, better info about trips to/from somewhere, move buttons up
  • traffic signal editor UI overhaul
  • different data in top-right agent meters panel
  • tooltips to communicate keybindings better
  • new jump-to-time panel, showing when rush hours occur
  • speed controls use more useful speeds
  • include ongoing trips in measured trip times
  • jump to next challenge after completing one
  • lots of tutorial tweaks

0.1.30

  • show additional info about traffic patterns and buggy maps
  • revamp tutorial UI to group tasks and messages better
  • handle different mode transitions when info panel open on an agent
  • select entire roads in unzoomed edit mode
  • show total time an agent has spent moving / blocked
  • use 2-phase traffic signals by default, making the 23rd map successfully complete!
  • jump-to-time now optionally points out traffic jams forming
  • challenge splash screen improved

0.1.31

  • overhauled trip timeline in agent info panels
  • overhauled traffic signal details panel and the per-lane turn explorer
  • settings page: show all options at once. add way to scale up text/UI elements for high-DPI displays, and an alternate pan/zoom control scheme
  • traffic signal edits can now be exported and used in any slice of Seattle. will be using this to hand-map many of them.
  • many small tutorial fixes

0.1.32

  • some UI work on giving focus to textboxes, improving dropdown menus
  • road/intersection plots display baseline sim data too
  • start associating people with multiple trips, exposing this a little in the UI
  • bring back elevation data, introduce a new overlay. the elevation data is still really bad.

0.1.33

  • new "population" overlay, showing people (not just current trips). heatmap and dot map to visualize.
  • improved the "delay" overlay to handle roads and intersections
  • removed the confusing and useless alternate color schemes for agents
  • initial left-hand driving side, tested in Perth, also drawing more arrows for all one-way roads
  • loads of internal GUI code refactorings, preparing for a standalone release of the library
  • fixed z-buffering and alpha values for web backend

0.1.34

  • info panels have been totally overhauled again. multiple tabs, way more clear representation of agents, trips, and people.
  • draw people inside of a building
  • applied consistent typography everywhere
  • lots of internal refactoring

0.1.35

  • more info panel work, particularly for trips and buses. change plot settings live.
  • prototype of a SEIR pandemic model based on time spent in shared spaces, by orestis
  • slight heatmap improvements, more coming
  • more typography changes
  • mouse cursor now changes for buttons and dragging!
  • overhaul minimap controls, make layers behavior zoomed in a little better
  • new speed panel and jump-to-time modal

0.1.36

  • overhauled simulation data page, with a table to find slow trips and some initial summary visualizations
  • plots can change windowing and show/hide series
  • layers: fade map to contrast more, better scales/legends
  • show relative trip times in info panels
  • tools to rewind/ffw to watch particular trips
  • refocusing efforts on challenge modes; level 1 of a new one is pretty much ready
  • some simulation fixes around parking and a corner case of cars temporarily forming a cycle
  • orestis improved the population/pandemic heatmaps

0.1.37

  • optimize commute challenge: high score, live sentiment, second stage
  • parked cars are owned by people, not buildings
  • info panel improvements for trips
  • bike layer suggests places where bike lanes could be helpful
  • many improvements to scatter plot
  • a new histogram-ish thing for understanding faster/slower trips
  • handling scenarios longer than 24 hours better (for pandemic model)
  • prototype of commute visualization, grouping buildings by blocks
  • sim bugfixes: crosswalk / vehicle turn conflicts, start bikes in bike lanes from borders

0.1.38

  • major internal changes to ensure people's schedules don't have impossible gaps, to associate fixed bikes/cars to a eprson, handle delayed starts to trips
  • parking changes: show path to closest free spot, utilization of a lane over time, every building includes at least 1 offstreet spot by default
  • progress on removing unrealistic gridlock: detect turn conflict cycles and temporarily allow conflicts, trim last steps of a laggy head
  • internal sim alert system. speeds up debugging, could be used for player-facing "traffic jam!" alerts

0.1.39

  • switched to proper OSM-based maps; no more brittle, manual geometry fixes
  • more sorting and filtering options in trip table and parking overhead tables
  • improve offstreet parking rendering. park closer to destination buildings
  • easier process for importing new cities. introducing Los Angeles, Austin, Barranquilla.
  • new data updater tool so people can opt-in to new cities
  • many internal fixes to prevent gridlock. smarter cycle detection, manual OSM fixes and traffic signal timings

0.1.40

  • differential throughput layer to understand routing diversions
  • map edits now reference longer-lasting OSM IDs, can work cross-map
  • basemap updates: new areas for west seattle, mt baker, lots of upstreamed fixes in OSM and traffic signals, smarter border matching
  • parking: optionally filter on/off-street spots in the layer, allow disconnecting spots via edits
  • render some tunnels with lower opacity
  • new feature to change speed limits and bulk road selection tools
  • first write-up of a real use case (closing lake wash through arboretum)
  • make the traffic signal challenge act like a game, with a failure/win state and scoring

0.1.40a

  • added a mode to map parking

0.1.41

  • new parking mapper tool
  • include a one-shot .osm importer in the release
  • new layer to find different types of amenities / businesses
  • adjust traffic signal rendering style
  • bulk lane editor for changing speed limits and lane types
  • including west seattle and udistrict maps
  • include some OSM buildings that were being skipped
  • dont pause after opening something from sandbox mode
  • adjust turn signals for lane-changing cars
  • lots of fixes for monitors with different DPIs, enabled by default

0.1.42

  • many misc UI bugfixes, especially for high-DPI screens
  • managing turns across multiple nearby intersections: tool to visualize, handling multi-way OSM turn restrictions, using this to ban illegal movements at the pathfinding layer, starting a traffic signal editor variant to edit these
  • rendering improvements: unzoomed agent size, visualizing routes on trip table, transparent roads beneath bridges, draw harbor island
  • overhauled street/address finder
  • parking mapper: shortcut to open bing

0.1.43

  • new map picker!
  • UI polish: traffic signal editor, layers, bus stops, delay plots
  • generate more interesting biographies for people
  • tuned all the map boundaries
  • fleshing out lots of docs in preparation for the alpha release...

0.1.44

  • spawner UI revamped
  • model parking lots! and finally model public/private parking
  • fix up tutorial
  • starting a story map mode

0.1.45

  • overhauled challenge cutscenes and hints
  • traffic signal challenge: fix score detection, add meter, much faster startup, no reset-to-midnight required
  • layers: use gradient for a few, delay comparison, new UI for picker
  • overhauled minimap controls, should be intuitive now
  • edit mode changelist UI started

0.2.0 (alpha launch)

  • road names now shown by default, in a new style
  • all layers now use gradients and show up zoomed in. worst traffic jam layer revamped.
  • scatter and line plot improvements
  • internal UI fixes: proper word wrap
  • bugfixes for following people riding the bus
  • rainbow crosswalks in one neighborhood
  • final polishing for launch

0.2.1

  • busy week due to launch, but many new features in the pipeline
  • many bug fixes
  • edit mode: proper autosave, load proposals, jump between lane/intersection editors
  • very first steps on light rail... importing the tracks
  • starting a new traffic scenario modifier system, to repeat entire scenario or outright cancel trips for some people. many more ideas for filters and actions coming soon.
  • starting to represent private roads
  • add a very simple actuated traffic signal

0.2.2

  • the default traffic signal configuration is much smarter now, handling roads with some sidewalks missing and automatically synchronizing pairs of adjacent lights
  • much faster startup time for large maps
  • better UX for handling unsaved edits
  • access-restricted zones: changing existing zones almost completely works, except for granting new access to pedestrians
  • new sidewalk corner rendering, more rounded
  • ui style standardized for margins, padding
  • Javed got camera panning when your cursor is at the edge of the screen to work; enable it in settings
  • pulling bus stop/route info from OSM, not GTFS. steps towards light rail.
  • experimenting with controls for hiding bridges to see roads underneath; try them in dev mode (ctrl+S)
  • many bug fixes

0.2.3

  • lane geometry is dramatically fixed, especially for one-ways
  • importing lanes from OSM improved
  • UI: bulk select includes select-along-a-route, show all bus routes in the layer, unzoomed zordering for roads/intersections
  • traffic scenario modifier can now convert trip modes
  • slight progress on light rail, although the train only makes one stop
  • vehicles moving through complex intersections with multiple traffic signals will now make it through multiple lights, even if they're unsynchronized
  • new random traffic scenario generator that makes people go between houses and workplaces
  • access-restricted zones: granular editing of individual roads now mostly works
  • removing the hardcoded relative directories, which many people have been having problems with
  • many many bug fixes, and some optimizations to reduce release file size

0.2.4

  • bus/train routes overhauled; they're now one-way, regularly spawn every hour, and may begin or end at a border
  • new commute pattern explorer tool
  • new character art to give cutscenes a bit more personaliy
  • some progress on gridlocking maps, both from manual fixes and an attempt to reduce conflicts in multi-turn sequences
  • misc UI: show cars seeking parking in unzoomed mode, plot arrival rate at border intersections, consolidate bulk selection controls
  • trips modified by an experiment can now be filtered in summaries
  • buses, trains, and passengers on them are now properly distinguished in different stats
  • include krakow and berlin in release
  • buildings with holes in the middle are now rendered properly

0.2.5

  • cars pick lanes better
  • overhaul bus/stop/route info panels
  • UI: better autocomplete, commuter pattern improvements by Michael, toggles instead of checkboxes, contours for heatmaps, edit mode loader revamp
  • internal refactors: turn creation, osm tags, osm parsing
  • import living streets from OSM as restricted-access zones, and other importer tweaks for berlin, krakow, san jose, sydney

0.2.6

  • many roads without sidewalks now have a tiny shoulder lane, still enabling pedestrian movement, but with a penalty
  • bike trips will stop/start at a better position along the sidewalk now
  • support parking lanes on the off-side of a one-way
  • UI: search by building names, commuter patterns shows borders better
  • transit: make people ride off-map, spawn buses on short roads
  • internal cleanups for buttons

0.2.7

  • many intersections with on/off ramps have much better geometry
  • lane-changing banned on turn lanes
  • lots more work matching bus stops/routes to the map. some progress, also some regressions.
  • fixing spawning on tiny borders
  • bus spawn rates from GTFS for seattle. started an editor for the schedule.
  • internal ezgui refactorings

0.2.8

  • multiple traffic signals can now be synchronized and edited together
  • new dashboard for "traffic signal demand" over the entire day and map
  • started experimenting with controlling the headless runner via a JSON API
  • epic ezgui fix by Michael to consolidate handling of HiDPI scaling
  • got a bunch of huge cities importing and loading quickly
  • you can now save the trips you manually spawn in freeform mode, then replay them later

0.2.9

  • import Xi'an, add a Chinese font, and add a tool for that group to import their external demand data
  • control A/B Street through a graphics-less API, with a Python example
  • improve UI for per-direction traffic signal demand
  • on/off ramp geometry fixed in a few more cases
  • fix some missing parking lot aisles, handle parking lots with 0 spots, and extract parking garages from OSM
  • switch road/building language in settings, if OSM data exists
  • congestion capping prototype: declare a max number of vehicles that can pass through a zone per hour, view/edit it, and very simple implementation in the sim layer
  • add custom-drawn trips to the main scenario, for exploring new demand from a new building
  • mkirk fixed up the glow/wasm ezgui backends, letting us remove glium
  • make map edit JSON backwards compatible
  • better lane/turn markings

0.2.10

  • two-way cycletracks and arbitrary direction changes for roads
  • fix map editing for lane reversals, make edits backwards compatible, and massively speed up applying edits
  • fleshing out the headless API and tooling for controlling the simulation from any language
  • import a few more places, redo left-hand driving support so far
  • various bug/performance fixes

0.2.11

  • disabled support for editing the map without resetting the simulation. needs more work, but solid start.
  • improvements to API, activity model, congestion capping
  • small UI tweaks for parking, editing multiple signals
  • fixed last bugs for left-handed driving, should work just as well now
  • lots of graphics experiments from the hackathon, not merged yet

0.2.12

  • new textured color scheme and isometric buildings, in settings
  • new layer to show how far away people parked
  • Massive UI overhauls: jump to time/delay, edit mode, traffic signal editor (now with offsets), lane editor, bulk lane edit, traffic signal demand (individual intersections and all), loading screen
  • the Go API example compares trip times and detects gridlock
  • infinite parking mode
  • show how long a car has been parked in one spot
  • bugfix for some pathfinding costs around uber-turns
  • start to show a trip's purpose

0.2.13

  • alleyways from OSM imported
  • traffic signal minimum time now constrained by crosswalks; thanks Sam!
  • UI changes in progress for trip tables, summaries, bulk edit
  • more API / Python example work for congestion capping
  • bug fixes: isometric buildings, documentation links, dropdown widgets, turn restrictions

0.2.14

  • improve turn generation, with goldenfile tests
  • UI adjustments: unzoomed routes, better delay layer, include reasons for cancelled trips, throughput layer counts
  • small map importing fixes: multipolygon parking lots
  • fix infinite parking and blackholed buildings

0.2.15

  • large internal change allowing asynchronously loading extra files over HTTP for web
  • the release of the first web version!
  • cars looking for parking now have a "thought bubble" showing this, by Michael
  • slow sections of a trip are now shown in the info panel, by Sam
  • fix by Michael for handling window resizing in panels
  • fix original routes on edited maps
  • internal code organization and documentation

0.2.16

  • UI: click unzoomed agents, switch between metric/imperial units, show reason for cancelled trips, new "faded zoom" color scheme based on mapbox, more detailed agent counts in the top-right panel's tooltips
  • started a new dedicated OpenStreetMap viewer, will split out from A/B Street later
  • fix alpha colors on web
  • bugfixes for the new asynchronous map loading
  • some substantial simulation performance gains (168s to 90s on one benchmark!)
  • lots of progress towards editing the map without resetting the simulation to midnight. please test with --live_map_edits and report any issues
  • internal refactoring and code documentation

0.2.17

  • tooling to automatically extract different shapes around cities without an explicit bounding polygon
  • imported many maps for an OSM viewer demo
  • misc bug fixes, UI tweaks, and perf improvements, especially for the web version
  • start using OSM sidewalks data properly in krakow -- more work needed, but better start

0.2.18

  • overhaul data/system management: switch from Dropbox to S3, reorganize files, add an in-game updater
  • started a UI for collision dataviz, with data in the UK and Seattle
  • improve turns between separate footways
  • simplify the process of importing a new city

0.2.19

  • added experimental day/night support; run with --day_night
  • slight performance improvements by avoiding applying no-op edits
  • new tests for lane-changing behavior, used to more safely allow more realistic behavior blocking "degenerate" intersections
  • experimenting with filling in gaps between one-way roads, to represent medians

0.2.20

  • prototyped a new 15-minute neighborhood tool
  • overhaul internal simulation input code -- better performance, way simpler
  • debug tool to record traffic around a few intersections and replay later

0.2.21

  • split separate tools into their own executables
  • misc bug fixes and other refactoring, focused on GUI code mostly
  • most of a prototype done for an experiment
  • map added for north seattle

0.2.22

  • vehicles will lane-change less erratically during uber-turns (sequences of turns through multiple traffic signals close together)
  • debug mode has a "blocked-by graph" tool to understand dependencies between waiting agents
  • try multiple OpenGL video mode options if the first choice fails (thanks Michael!)
  • refactoring trip starting code and the minimap
  • non-Latin fonts now supported on web too, thanks to rustybuzz release
  • new small maps in Seattle included in the release, and NYC added to optional cities
  • saving some player state on the web (mostly camera position per map, for the main game)
  • partial prototype of a new census-based scenario generator, thanks to help from the Amazon SSPA hackathon
  • significant progress on the experiment, about one week left...

0.2.23

  • released the 15-minute Santa experiment!
  • trip info panels now show more continuous progress along a route
  • fixing inactive buttons stretching too much

0.2.24

  • variable traffic signal timing, thanks to Bruce
  • 15 min explorer: more walking options (require shoulders, change speed), more organized business search
  • 15 min santa: remember upzoning choices
  • misc bugfixes and refactoring
  • 2021 roadmap drafted

0.2.25

  • huge breakthrough on merging intersections to handle short roads. applied to just a few places so far
  • support one-way roads with default traffic signal heuristics
  • 15 min explorer: find residences close to user-specified businesses, see unwalkable roads
  • bugfix from Bruce to prevent sim from crashing when a short road is over capacity
  • automatically fetch census data for any US map and use for scenario generation, from Michael
  • some initial experiments to bring A/B Street's lane rendering to the web using Leaflet

0.2.26

  • dramatically improve initial web loading and be able to start with any map
  • city picker UI now better organizes other regions with many maps
  • new tool to convert SUMO networks into A/B Street maps
  • taking screenshots of the entire map now much faster, portable. trying to use for Leaflet raster tiles, but not working yet.
  • widgetry UI library now doesn't depend on anything specific to A/B Street
  • internal refactoring for error handling

0.2.27

  • dramatically speed up starting scenarios by deferring when public transit riders pick their route
  • start importing separate cyclepaths and pedestrian plazas for Cambridge, many adjustments to make these start working
  • full panel for picking a scenario to start
  • import trip data from the actdev project for Cambridge
  • improve inferred map elements (stop signs and crosswalks) near short roads
  • heuristics for automatically finding and merging short roads. disabled, but solid start

0.2.28

  • massive button overhaul by Yuwen and Michael
  • the color scheme automatically switches between day/night based on simulation time!
  • significant progress on editing the map without resetting the simulation
  • various bugfixes, new maps, improvements to running the importer, faster updater

0.2.29

  • new map, Rainier Valley, is the 3rd ever to finish without gridlock! One of the fixes was collapsing traffic circles into a normal intersecton
  • bugfixes for map importing: cycleways with left-handed driving, matching traffic signals, odd number of lanes, u-turns
  • further fixes after the great button refactor

0.2.30

  • split documentation into a separate git repo
  • UI: filter throughput layer by mode, render stop signs better
  • started a debug tool to live-tune routing parameters and see the effects on a single route or all trips
  • Michael improved the web loading screen and added webgl1 support for ios browsers
  • cars looking for parking now randomize a bit, eliminating the unrealistic "parking snakes/parades" effect
  • Bruce fixed a critical bug with uber-turns, helping ease gridlock in some maps
  • new tool to procedurally generate houses along empty residential roads, useful when OSM is missing most data

0.2.31

  • loads of work integrating abstreet with the actdev project, and importing tons of maps
  • new tool to find the geofabrik OSM source best fitting a boundary
  • fix crosswalks and traffic signal policies in left-handed driving countries
  • fix initial zoom when starting with flags to copy the viewport from OSM
  • Bruce added lagging green signal heuristics
  • make it easier to click tiny bikes and pedestrians
  • change the URL in the web version as you change maps/scenarios
  • split the list of cities by country, and improved the UI for picking a place

0.2.32

  • easier to share web URLs with the current viewport
  • more actdev integration work
  • misc bugfixes, especially with uber-turns and the city picker UI
  • revived the map_editor tool for drawing small test maps and iterating faster on merging intersection geometry

0.2.33

  • import service roads and separate cyclepaths in all maps!
  • brand new day theme, designed by Yuwen and implemented by Michael!
  • improved rendering where sidewalks and shoulders of roads meet
  • fix overlapping panels on HiDPI screens with low resolution
  • prototype of loading abst in the background on a webpage
  • adjusted routing, penalizing unprotected left turns onto bigger roads, which often contribute to gridlock
  • fixed some turn restrictions at merged intersections
  • widgetry: change fonts mid-line, dynamically load extra fonts (for a Taipei map)

0.2.34

  • new travel demand generator using UK origin/destination data
  • the 15m and OSM viewer web apps also have nicer URLs now
  • 2 more seattle maps complete without gridlock!
  • less seattle maps bundled with the release by default, to keep file size sane
  • many UI changes for the actdev integration, pending rollout to abst generally
  • initial experiments with implementing lane over-taking and road-based pathfinding

0.2.35

  • vast improvements to roundabouts, gridlock, and ordering at stop signs
  • consolidated UI panels in simulation modes; should work much better for smaller screens
  • measure intersection delay more intuitively
  • use straight lines for right/left turns at small intersections
  • various bugfixes and small UI improvements
  • started a tool to import from OSM without the command line; should be ready next week

0.2.36

  • released a new tool to import anywhere from OSM from within the game!
  • UI: finished trips meter, consolidated agent counters on minimap, move layers to the left for small screens, new tab style, use new day colorscheme in other apps
  • fixed a bug with comparing the route somebody took before/after changes
  • start integrating Eldan's elevation data and reviving parts of the UI that use the data
  • better routing into/out of access-restricted neighborhoods

0.2.37

  • import elevation data for Seattle!
  • add layers showing steep streets, elevation contours, and show elevation profile for bike/pedestrian routes
  • faster, simpler pathfinding for access-restricted zones
  • faster map importer and some UI fixes

0.2.38

  • change walking and biking speed based on elevation
  • import elevation data for all maps -- though there may still be quality issues
  • filter trip table by start/end location on the map
  • Michael made the web deployment much more flexible, in preparation for a blog post

0.2.39

  • massive internal change to make pathfinding use roads, not lanes. paves the way for many exciting things, like...
  • changing the number and width of lanes per road! WIP, debug mode-only UI for now

0.2.40

  • fix bugs running the importer
  • import grid2demand scenarios from the UI
  • implement more of road widening internals
  • new --minimal_controls option by Michael for screencasts
  • ran the first UX study in a long time, lots of feedback on the tutorial and traffic signal editor

0.2.41

  • first prototype of the new road editor!
  • much easier way to download new cities -- just try to open a map you don't yet have. much smaller .zip release now
  • track two "risk exposure" events -- when cars want to overtake cyclists, and passing through a large intersection -- and start to show data on trip panels, a new "problem map" layer, and a WIP summary dashboard
  • better geometry for some merged intersections, and applying the algorithm all around Tempe
  • another UX study and some tutorial UX fixes

0.2.42

  • improvements to experimental road editor
  • 2 more UX studies and a slew of small fixes

0.2.43

  • starting to import GMNS traffic signal timing. this will eventully let us import from Synchro!
  • more work on the new road editor, but still not ready. lane widths are now more varied and realistic.
  • Trevor overhauled the OSM amenity categories and added a multi-source isochrone to the 15m tool to find places without access to some amenity
  • partial work running the map importer in a Docker container, to eventually speed up the import process in the cloud
  • signal editor UI adjustments
  • time warp UI fixes and a new risk exposure contingency matrix by Michael
  • internal code cleanup using clippy, by Vinzent

0.2.44

  • experimental road editor finally released! more improvements still planned
  • save/restore settings (like camera angle and units) between sessions
  • Michael improved performance of scrolling panels
  • Michael adding more dataviz to travel time and risk exposure dashboards
  • regenerating all maps now happens on the cloud -- faster and less harmful to my poor laptop
  • exploring some debug tools and strategies for consolidating intersections

0.2.45

  • map importing fixes: multiple left/right turn lanes, combo bus/turn lanes, tidy up degenerate intersections along cyclepaths, allow explicitly tagged U-turns, better stop sign placement heuristics
  • in Seattle, snap trips entering/leaving map through borders more carefully
  • prebake data to cover trips starting near midnight. down from about 3000 cancelled trips in montlake to 300
  • road editor UI: explain disabled actions
  • Michael added new "arterial crossing" risk for pedestrians
  • improved GMNS signal timing importer

0.2.46

  • lots of internal writing, presentations... not quite ready for an audience yet
  • fixed weird turn lane arrows
  • GMNS signal import now works for many intersections, thanks to crosswalk inference
  • road editor UI fixes
  • speed up starting a simulation with infinite parking
  • possible breakthrough with intersection consolidation

0.2.47

  • simulation speedup by storing turns better
  • new website/docs maybe halfway done
  • sped up rust build process
  • improved some geometry around Tempe
  • fix broken screenshot diff test
  • trevor added the "cloud of uncertainty" in the 15m tool to show borders

0.2.48

  • vehicles will now dynamically change lanes to pass slower traffic! in limited cases only.
  • vehicles can now exit a building's driveway and immediately cut across a few lanes
  • new UI tool to easily find when trips start
  • fix some crashes related to widening roads

0.2.49

  • vehicles can exit driveways in either direction!
  • bugfixes with lane-changing, time-warping, settings, nondeterministic z-ordering, changing speed limits
  • speed up edit mode on large maps
  • loading maps on native now sees locally imported maps
  • smaller files across the board by serializing f64s as integers
  • map data quality: greenlake cycletrack, better stop sign placement, crosswalks at consolidated intersections
  • risk exposure matrix labels
  • keep cars out of bus lanes with better costing

0.2.50

  • UI: improve elevation profiles, add road editor revert button, thought bubbles for people climbing steep inclines
  • fixed signal timing for 3-ways
  • fixed a race condition with two vehicles going for the same offstreet parking
  • fixing pedestrian speeds on inclines
  • improved relative positons of adjacent lanes on curvy roads
  • internal speedups for map importing and a tool to compare two maps, for intersection consolidation
  • let lane-changing happen in more cases (when vehicle1 wants to pass vehicle2, but can't until a few lanes later)
  • add a mode to import a region-wide map without local roads
  • internal pathfinding refactor to switch between contraction hierarchies & Dijkstra more flexibly, reduce duplicate higher-level input graph logic

0.2.51

  • special mid-week release to support a blog post
  • using infinite parking for the arboretum scenario
  • add y axis to trip time dashboard
  • faster OSM import using overpass
  • internal tools for working on intersection consolidation and cyclepath snapping

0.2.52

  • started a mode shift dashboard
  • individual trips can be explored from the risk exposure dashboards now
  • fixed actdev scenarios
  • web file loaders now show progress
  • performance improvements for editing roads
  • various bug fixes

0.2.53

  • new intersection consolidation algorithm, applied around Seattle and Tempe with really great results!
  • Seattle fixes: deduplicating cycletracks, connecting Arboretum bike paths
  • add new lane types to express buffers for protected bike lanes
  • better neighborhood shapes by Michael, in the commuter patterns layer
  • fixed Overpass imports, which were missing border intersections

0.2.54

  • brand new day mode color scheme!
  • road editor automatically adjusts lane width, and other small UI fixes
  • show bike network gaps in the mode shift dashboard
  • progress on snapping cyclepaths, representing buffers, fixing up nearby geometry
  • fixed crosswalks for consolidated intersections on left-handed maps

0.2.55

  • more progress on cycleway snapping, but still not ready
  • road editor sets new lane width better
  • load proposals picks a better order
  • a new experiment unfolding...

0.2.56

  • releasing a new tool dedicated to planning bike networks!
  • massive overhaul to the road editor, including lane cards that can be both dragged AND dropped
  • new road labeling in unzoomed mode
  • new tool to quickly sketch roads to edit
  • new tool to plan routes and see elevation/road types along the way
  • load previously saved proposals on web
  • disabled prototype: uploading proposals to a central server for easier sharing

0.2.57

  • bike network tool UI fixes, especially for the routing tool
  • use drag and drop for traffic signal editor and route waypoints
  • small internal map model performance boost
  • heavy documentation week

0.2.58

  • dramatically improve time to recalculate pathfinding
  • deploy raw map editor to web, to support a long-form article: https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/tech/map/geometry/index.html
  • long-form article about the simulation: https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/tech/trafficsim/discrete_event/index.html
  • small fixes to ungap route tool

0.2.59

  • bike network's route tool: naming saved routes, showing details about the route
  • switch from s3 to cloudfront CDN; all downloads should be faster
  • further pathfinding performance improvements
  • fix bike quick sketch tool in left-handed maps
  • consolidate tools into a single CLI and include it in the release

0.2.60

  • incorporated a configurable mode shift and carbon emissions model with the bike network tool
  • partially implemented Mara's UX changes to the bike tool
  • improved UI map importing: no more overwriting, and naming new maps
  • prototyped a new low-traffic neighborhood / rat-run tool

0.2.61

  • bike network tool now shows alternate routes
  • small fixes to mode shift and LTN tool
  • major internal UI refactors started

0.2.62

  • ungap the map bike network tool launched! bike.abstreet.org has documentation and videos
  • uploading and sharing proposals now works!
  • super speedup to applying map edits

0.2.63

  • ungap: consolidate editing controls
  • workaround some bugs loading map edits
  • ungap: add ability to compare a trip before/after some proposed changes
  • ungap: make the high-stress metric handle one side of a road missing bike lanes
  • ungap route sketcher easier to use when zoomed far out
  • ui fixes: units in barrier type, dropdowns focus-fighting with drag-drop cards
  • perf: smaller city overview maps

0.2.64

  • new algorithms to find and render city block and neighborhoods. almost ready for use in main applications
  • fixed the worst of curb rendering bugs
  • new mapbox gl + abstreet demo
  • adding command-line --help to most programs

0.2.65

  • rewrote the low-traffic neighborhood prototype. neighborhood detection much better, internal streets grouped into traffic cells, two rendering styles for cells. browsing rat runs not ready yet, disabled
  • new shared title screen, to switch easily between all A/B Street apps

0.3.0 (major release)

See https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/project/history/retrospective/index.html for a look back on the project so far. I started https://github.com/sponsors/dabreegster to fundraise for a full-time Rust developer.

  • added basic routing to LTN tool
  • roads with modal filters belong to two traffic cells
  • progress on LTN rat run detection, but still not ready
  • new option to use OSM crossing nodes to model unmarked foot crossings
  • better road label placement

0.3.1

  • no right turn at red lights, in most of the world. thanks Marcel!
  • simplify map importing config
  • some fixes to OSM crosswalk matching
  • placing LTN modal filters more intuitively
  • change level of traffic assumptions in LTN pathfinder. thanks Andrew!
  • diagonal modal filters for LTNs

0.3.2

  • render one-way markings as outlines by Marcel
  • few fixes, mostly just importing some new places
  • the project lead has moved to London ;)

0.3.3

  • bus routes now imported for Seattle and SF, from GTFS
  • fix "bowtie" intersection shapes, resulting from incorrect clockwise ordering
  • few small OSM data fixes for London and Leeds
  • fix crash when customizing a route in Ungap the Map

0.3.4

  • draw custom boundaries for LTNs (but can't yet save the boundaries)
  • rendering modal filters better when zoomed in
  • v3 of a rat-run detector, and showing a heatmap of quiet/busy streets

0.3.5

  • improved LTN rat-run detection
  • LTN UI overhaul, expressing 3 modes for per-neighborhood analysis, all of which can edit modal filters
  • LTN drawing fixes -- including the 4-color theorem to make sure adjacent areas appear distinct
  • LTN tool now understands roads that're already tagged as car-free in OSM
  • LTN tool can adjust boundaries a bit more precisely, but this still half-broken
  • Marcel overhauled walking turns, letting them be bidirectional and switching to a simpler implementation of crosswalk generation
  • Marcel improved the geometry of all turns
  • fix downloading maps in the Windows version

0.3.6

  • bugfixes for partitioning space into blocks, which helps the LTN tool

0.3.7

  • experimenting with a few heuristics for automatically placing modal filters
  • improved rendering in the "browse neighborhoods" screen: show all filters, emphasize boundary roads, optionally show cell connectivity, and optionally show how "good" the neighborhood is
  • draw disconnected cells more loudly
  • fix bug introduced recently that broke listing files (especially newly imported maps)
  • add an "undo" button for the LTN tool
  • export all LTN data to GeoJSON -- the cell polygons are slow to produce, and buggy, though
  • start ranking neighborhoods by how many streets with through-traffic exist
  • make the "adjust boundary" UI mostly work now -- individual blocks are transferred between neighborhoods properly in most cases

0.3.8

  • sped up initial loading of the LTN tool on web by splitting it from the main A/B Street binary
  • LTN UX: preserve dropdown settings and saved routes
  • draw LTN cells as proper polygons, always clipped to the neighborhood boundary (instead of a grid)
  • support LTN GeoJSON export in web
  • prototyped an impact prediction for LTN schemes by comparing per-road volumes using a demand model. Not working yet.

0.3.9

  • LTN boundary selection can now split neighborhoods in most ways
  • allow UK scenarios to be generated with one-shot imports
  • fix pedestrian rendering crash that happened in some maps
  • fix how cycle-and-foot-only roads are drawn unzoomed
  • make LTN impact prediction tool stop running out of video memory
  • internal refactoring to separate Scenario stuff from rest of simulation code

0.3.10

  • save/load LTN proposals as local files only
  • improve LTN block tracing near railroads and bridges/tunnels, fixing many overlapping areas
  • LTN UI: draw cell & neighborhood areas beneath roads, add road name search tool everywhere
  • make modal filters visible even at very low zoom levels
  • extend the quietness view and automatic filter heuristics to the entire map
  • improve the travel demand model for UK data by handling desire lines starting/ending off-map

0.3.11

  • detect existing modal filters in OSM
  • import Melbourne and most London boroughs
  • simplify road center-lines after merging roads
  • improve my workflow for regenerating all maps locally in parallel
  • save LTN proposals in web browsers to local storage
  • some small LTN UI fixes

0.3.12

  • fix various crashes relating to geometry and edits near public transit
  • internal refactoring to make the map_editor debugging tool build much faster
  • improved geometry near dog-leg intersections in some maps

0.3.13

  • swap between multiple LTN proposals easily
  • LTN boundary selection is now faster, has simpler colors, has a freehand lasso tool, and includes blocks near roads without sidewalks
  • quickly create multiple modal filters by freehand drawing
  • core geometry fixes: remedy some lane center lines that explode at sharp angles
  • upgrade window management dependencies; if you experience new problems, please report

0.3.14

  • overhaul the rat-run mode: tighten up things counting as shortcuts, keep the same path after adding a filter
  • change the LTN route planning tool to be map-wide, not per-neighborhood
  • place filters at non 4-way intersections
  • shrink some cases of overlapping roads, improving geometry when OSM data is not great
  • a first round of simplifying LTN panels
  • when the LTN blockfinding would've crashed previously, just fallback to using more expensive blockfinding
  • bugfix: detect existing filters on really short roads
  • fix initial camera placement outside of the main A/B Street app

0.3.15

  • re-import the current map from fresh OSM data (native only)
  • adjust LTN panels

0.3.16

  • show rat-runs on the connectivity tab; understand both detours and cells as you place filters
  • merge blocks with different winding orders
  • better behavior when switching proposals on the rat-run tab
  • new automatic filter heuristic inspired by min cut
  • adjust LTN color scheme, de-emphasizing buildings
  • simplify LTN UI, hiding advanced controls

0.3.17

  • show biking and walking directions too in the LTN tool
  • add help and info buttons to the LTN tool
  • show area of neighborhoods

0.3.18

  • fix major bug where pathfinding after map edits was broken
  • make the LTN impact tool show results more reasonably

0.3.19

  • breaking change: saved LTN proposals have a new format. Please contact me if you need to fix any previously saved files.
  • starting to revive public transit support a bit, simplifying how many times pathfinding happens
  • adjust LTN filter drawing style and allow toggling filters on "degenerate" intersections
  • fix a rare simulation crash involving a vehicle exiting driveways off-side
  • slow down pedestrians walking on crowded sidewalks, and track where this problem happens
  • thanks to Michael, Mac binaries are now signed!

0.3.20

  • you can now edit crosswalks!
  • more realistic behavior of pedestrians at stop signs -- they won't endlessly swarm and cut off vehicles
  • show a popup when the web browser version crashes
  • change metric/imperial settings automatically based on the map loaded
  • update Seattle OSM data (first time in over 6 months)

0.3.21

  • new UI tools to explore risk exposure and problems: click a person's problem to time-warp and watch it, show A/B test of problems per road/intersection, time-series of problems per road/intersection
  • fix various crashes

0.3.22

  • revive an internal A/B test mode to keep simulations between two similar maps in sync
  • new layer for pedestrian density
  • improve the SMP scenario
  • ltn: one-way border arrows, freehand filter tool can be used from either editing mode,
  • simplify LTN cells around non-driveable roads
  • introduce a Bristol consultation mode for the LTN tool
  • export problem list to CSV, and make all CSV/GeoJSON exports work on the web too

0.3.23

  • small LTN fixes: don't filter one-way roads or mess up undo with the freehand tool, highlight the boundary road
  • LTN style changes: traffic signals, don't show stop signs or crosswalks, get the center line color correct in the UK
  • create a second Bristol LTN consultation mode, with a special overriden boundary
  • initial support for modifying one-way streets in the LTN tool (with many limitations)

0.3.24

  • improve the LTN route planner UI

0.3.25

  • improvements for road labels in the LTN tool
  • explain errors to the user better in the LTN tool
  • prevent more illegal combinations of filters, one-ways, and dead-ends
  • improved UX after downloading a new map natively
  • fix some missing U-turns
  • temporarily disabled code-signing for Mac binaries

0.3.26

  • major LTN color redesign
  • fix LTN modal filters that were pre-existing in OSM data
  • fix missing schools and other OSM amenities
  • bad elevation data disabled in most maps (it never worked outside of Seattle)
  • internal refactor to extract osm2streets code to another repo, allowing faster iteration and some upcoming related projects
  • re-enable Mac binary code-signing

0.3.27

  • rearrange LTN tool controls -- you can now view shortcuts by road
  • bug fixes and perf fixes for scrolling and drawing road labels

0.3.28

  • LTN design overhaul: remove the zoomed view, simpler road labels, multiple modal filter types
  • overhaul the LTN impact prediction tool: make it work on all maps, improve how before/after paths drawn, fix major bug with paths changing spuriously, add CSV export
  • transform a simple case of dual carriageways into a single road with a divider lane
  • workaround broken LTN partitioning in some maps
  • fix color scheme when drawing LTN cells as areas
  • show an icon for schools in the LTN tool

0.3.29

  • another LTN color scheme update
  • some LTN bugfixes

0.3.30

  • fix some major crashes with the LTN tool

0.3.31

Note the Linux build now uses Ubuntu 22.04, not 18.04, and thus requires a new glibc to work

  • initial support for uploading and sharing LTN proposals!!!
  • changes to one-ways / road direction are now saved in the LTN tool and work with undo
  • deal with "holes" in the middle of blocks when adjusting LTN boundaries
  • add zoom buttons and a collapsible legend to the LTN tool
  • import missing London boroughs
  • start internally switching to a better representation of tessellations that aren't simple polygons. Thanks Michael!

0.3.32

  • trying to filter a one-way road will now prompt you to change it
  • fix LTN shortcut calculation: make them stay inside the neighbourhood and handle access=private roads
  • add optional bus route layer in the LTN tool
  • draw new / existing modal filters differently
  • fix important bug causing some routes to make illegal turns
  • fix a few OSM import crashes

0.3.33

  • overhaul LTN navigation between modes
  • much nicer road labels in the LTN tool
  • prompt the user to add a bus gate on appropriate roads
  • huge internal refactor of Polygons complete. thanks to Michael for help!
  • slightly improve LTN route tool, partly by hiding extra controls by default
  • improve LTN colors for parks and water

0.3.34

  • massive LTN UI overhaul based on Madison's designs
  • start importing footways and shared-use paths from OSM
  • change text scale factor in the LTN tool without restarting
  • many small ltn UX fixes

0.3.35

  • fix missing shortcuts in the LTN tool, involving corners where a main road changes name
  • start improving how saving LTN proposals works, for quickly comparing alternatives
  • use real photos to explain the modal filter types
  • fix a few reported crashes
  • substantially speed up map importing for certain areas with lots of amenities
  • fix an edge case with point closures defined at intersections

0.3.36

  • start a mode in the LTN tool showing and editing crossings and porosity
  • draw one-way arrows in the LTN tool less horribly (in narrow roads or with labels)
  • internally simplify OSM import process, by relying on osmium
  • speed up OSM XML parsing and reduce memory overhead

0.3.37

  • left/right driving side is now determined automatically when importing maps
  • LTN route tool can now start/end at roads, not just buildings
  • LTN tool doesn't constantly warn about bus gates and one-way roads
  • fix a few crashes in the LTN tool and performance of boundary selection
  • add elevation data for all of the UK, thanks to Malcolm
  • fix bus lane placement in left-sided maps

0.3.38

  • upgrade osm2streets, with various geometry fixes
  • shrink LTN build times a bit
  • fix LTN bug where with crazy route times involving private roads
  • fix Santa in downloaded version, before data is downloaded
  • clean up the 15m tool's UI and mark footways as walkable
  • speed up polygon editing tool and add a "leafblower" mode
  • start experimenting with "custom boundary" areas in the LTN tool

0.3.39

  • warn about problematic LTN boundaries
  • add a school street filter
  • add a 20mph LTN tool

0.3.40

  • new LTN tool to show driving impact from everywhere within a neighbourhood
  • update most external dependencies (hopefully without introducing any new platform-specific problems)
  • update osm2streets, with new default lane widths
  • hopefully fix some geometry-related crashes
  • update all OSM data for all maps, and always include the full area
  • cosmetic improvement to unzoomed road outline styling

0.3.41

  • major fixes to LTN blockfinding, letting boundaries be edited more frequently and default boundaries look more reasonable
  • osm2streets geometry fixes and new OSM data for GB maps
  • show main roads vs neighbourhood perimeters in LTN tool
  • help the user figure out what blocks to add first in the LTN tool boundary adjustment

0.3.42

  • ltn tool now treats main roads better, and handles neighbourhoods with perimeters only partly on main roads
  • ltn tool has a new cycle network tool, showing how quiet streets augment cycle lanes
  • ltn bugfix: roads starting with a filter now behave correctly
  • ltn routing: overlapping paths now start and end precisely at a building driveway
  • major speedups to LTN tool initial load time and shortcut calculation, and map importing
  • adjusting ltn boundaries is now a bit smoother when there are intermediate blocks
  • 15m tool overhauled. score homes tool is no longer all-or-nothing

0.3.43

  • add vehicle ownership census stats to the LTN tool for England
  • show Underground and National Rail stops in the LTN tool
  • only download one map at a time, to deal with huge cities like London or Seattle
  • misc bugfixes and performance improvements

0.3.44

NOTE! All prior savefiles in all apps won't load; the format has changed in an incompatible way. There will be more incompatible changes for the next few releases.

  • fix 15m tool crash on maps with shared paths and sidewalks
  • fix bug where alt+tab counts as tab keypress (thanks Abdul!)
  • use HTTPS for all downloads
  • let file pickers work on the web too
  • let the LTN tool save and load proposals from regular files
  • improve .zip binary releases, making all apps capture error logs
  • disable broken tutorial mode (but thanks to Antelope for starting to fix it)
  • internally change LTN tool to use regular map edits. some behavioral regressions with undo, but improvements with handling existing modal filters

0.3.45

  • show turn restrictions in the LTN tool (thanks Andy!)
  • show main road labels when adjusting LTN boundaries
  • import a few places and manually fix LTN boundary issues

0.3.46

NOTE this was first released 14 August broken, then re-released 30 August fixed

  • fix some map importing problems
  • regenerate all maps, fixing a previous attempt at this
  • import a few new places

0.3.47

  • edit turn restrictions in the LTN tool (thanks to Andy!)
  • remove old procedurally generated buildings from some UK maps
  • fix Santa crashes (thanks to Stuart!)

0.3.48

  • few bugfixes and new areas
  • try to fix Windows launcher scripts

0.3.49

  • Many new imports
  • Improved turn restriction icon placement in the LTN tool (thanks Andy!)
  • Speed up the main import process
  • Use new GeoTIFF elevation importer