Join the New Age of Discovery
Let's face it...the squidd.io site had grown a little old and a little stale. It was high time for a change, so change it we did. And what an upgrade it is!
Take a look at the new web site: you will immediately notice an entirely new paradigm: the home page, the center of the application, has been replaced with a map that features multiple spatial data layers that can be selected on and off.
Of course, the ever-growing repository of 30K+ navigational POIs (points of interest, such as marinas, harbors, ports, anchorages etc) is still the centerpiece of sQuiddio, but we have made it a lot easier to explore the database by dragging the map and zooming in and out. It's also become a lot easier to add, edit and delete POIs, a process that was admittedly a bit clunky and counter intuitive in the old web site.
We have also added a number of layers that had become popular features of sQuiddio in the past, but were not available in a cohesive and comprehensive manner: satellite maps, which can now be easily downloaded in bulk for a specific area, vessels in your Follow List, which you can now create an update with just a tap (gone is the old cumbersome invitation process), weather beacons, AIS Navigation Aids etc.
Finally, we took advantage of the redesign to make the web site a lot faster, responsive, and suitable for the variety of devices being used by the sea-going community of squiddio users.
In a nutshell....easier to use, a lot faster and more importantly, a lot more useful!
Take the new squidd.io site for a spin and send us your thoughts!
bring back the dashboard.... and zoomable map (with controls on map)
ReplyDeletesorry for the late response. The zoom controls were hidden under the layers pull down, and have now been moved to the right of the map, so they are constantly visible. The dashboard wasn't getting a lot of love (= little traffic) in the old version, so I decided to eliminate it. If perhaps you or others can suggest what features you found particularly useful, we can try to work them into future releases.
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