Email Bug

We've just discovered a bug with our email system that was preventing emails from being sent out properly. If you were missing a verification email, this is why.

The problem has been fixed and emails are being send out properly now. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Performance Upgrades

We will be working on some performance upgrades to the site in the coming weeks. If you notice and improvements or degradations to the performance of your map please let us know.

CommunityWalk on the IPhone

I will be attending the Outside Lands concert this weekend. For those who haven't heard of it, it's a huge concert in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco featuring bands like Radio Head, Beck, Ben Harper, Wide Spread Panic, Drive By Truckers, and dozens others.

I also recently got a 3G IPhone with GPS so I've been looking for an easy way to take advantage of CommunityWalk with the IPhone to give me a custom map to find my way between stages at the concert.

So I created a map of the different stages:

http://www.communitywalk.com/san_francisco/ca/sf_outside_lands/map/283341

and I figured out a way to get this to show up in the Google Maps application on the IPhone so that I can take advantage of the GPS.

If you click the link below on an IPhone then the Google Maps App will open up and the search box will be prefilled with this:

http//www.communitywalk.com/xml/kml/283341

If you insert a colon after the "http" and hit search then the map will load will all of the correct markers. For some reason if you include the colon in the original url then it doesn't open the Google Maps App correctly...

Here's the link:

http://maps.google.com/?q=http//www.communitywalk.com/xml/kml/283341

So just click the link and then add a colon after the "http" and hit search.

Slightly Improved Printing

We've finally gotten around to fixing a bug with printing maps where the list of locations in the print out was out of order. We've finally fixed it and made it so that they will adjust their order if you have multiple tabs selected in the map.

Explore Functionality Disabled

As CommunityWalk grows we want to ensure that we give our paying customers as reliable and fast a service as we can. We've made a number of improvements to facilitate this over the past few weeks and we've temporarily disabled the explore functionality. Most of our customers display their maps on their own websites so the explore functionality was not getting much use regardless and it was the worst offender to any reliability issues we've been having so removing it shouldn't affect people too much and should help provide very fast and reliable service going forward.

Remember Me

We've been so caught up in development for Wedding Mapper that we haven't been able to give CommunityWalk much attention over the last few months. So we just wanted to write to let people know that we are still going and are making sure that CommunityWalk is as stable and reliable as possible.

We also finally got around to adding in a "Remember Me" feature that will make it so that you don't have to log in to the site every time you visit. This has been the most request for some time so we hope it will make up for some of the recent neglect.

Server Migration Complete

Ok, I think we are out of the thick of it. We've migrated the servers, put out more than one fire, and managed to maintain all data through out. We were worried that some data had been corrupted, but we were able to restore it with out problem.

From here on out we should be able to scale without issue. Hopefully :)

Server Migration Issues

We've found an issue with our migration that took place last night. Some of the data that was imported was corrupted during the import. We need to reimport the data. This means that we will likely lose all information that was entered into the system this morning.

We are working on a way of restoring the information from this morning, but it does not look good right now. If we do lose this data then we will work with everyone affected to minimize the inconvenience this will cause.