Improved Support Site

The focus of BristolStreets.co.uk is and always will be the map itself, but the pages you are looking at now are an important way for us to communicate to you the visitor. We have updated the site to make these pages easier to use and so that they support the main site better.

We have moved the contact form from the map page and into this area of the site. This is simply to make it easier to use and because there was a problem for visitors using Firefox as their browser. Firefox is a great browser and we want to support it in any way we can but there was a fundamental problem with text fields shown within the sidebar control on the map. (In Firefox the insertion point does not show when entering numbers on the property filter but hopefully this will be fixed in time.)

Thanks to feedback from users we have altered when stop markers are shown on a bus route. When you click on a route number to show the route on the map, it shows the whole route by zooming out. If it is a long route, it ended up looking like a big green caterpillar and all of the stop markers overlapped and covered up the surrounding map. To try and make the route and its context easier to see, the stop markers are not shown until you zoom in closer and they will be more spread out.

Another request we have been getting from lots of people is to allow the scroll wheel on the mouse to zoom in and out on the map. There had been a technical problem with this in that trying to scroll the schedules in the sidebar with the scroll wheel would also zoom the map at the same time. But after working on this for a little while a solution has been found. One note is that because the "terrain" style map that is the default on BristolStreets.co.uk does not have high zoom levels, you have to switch to "normal" or "satellite" to zoom in to a high degree.

We have also changed the items in the footer of the map page. This ties in with the changes we have made in these support pages. But we have also provided quick link buttons to help you share the site with your friends using Delicious, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, and StumbledUpon.