Roadmap and Changelog

This page is experimental, your will help us to improve it.

Recently released

Geomatics Catalogue

We've added a new logical catalogue for Geomatics, initially to list Drone Images captured by the Engineering Team of Rothera station.

Map Purchasing Guide

We've moved information about how to Purchase our Published Maps to this website as a guide.

CDE and SAN downloads

We've added options for accessing data for items stored on the BAS SAN (U drive), and the Common Data Environment (CDE) used by BAS AIMP construction partners.

Site checks improvements

We've streamlined and simplified the automatic checks we run to try and detect missing or broken content and downloads.

This section only includes recent, high level, changes intended for a general audience.

The project CHANGELOG contains a full history at a lower technical level aimed at developers.

What we're doing now

Search

We're introducing a basic Search page.

Web Map Products

We're adding items for interactive web maps, specifically ArcGIS web maps.

Site checks for restricted items

We're expanding the automatic broken download checks we run to include restricted downloads hosted in SharePoint.

Roadmap and changelog

We're adding this page to explain how this website is developing.

Security and search notices

We're adding a security.txt file explaining how people can report security issues with this website, and a robots.txt file to request search engines and AI tools exclude some pages not relevant to the public (but which aren't secret).

Placeholder Homepage

We're adding a placeholder Home page linking to key collections.

Future plans

Improving search

To include filters for things such as download types, publication date and access restrictions.

We are also exploring how searching for items based on their location might work.

Management API

We will add an API for storing new or updated records, and to publish them to this website.

Migrating to UKRI AWS

We will move the AWS website hosting to an account operated by our parent body, for better support and oversight.

We always welcome about how you think we should improve this website.