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Radar 1.0.0 Beta 6 Release

Richard Brown
Richard Brown
CTO & Founder

Summary​

Release Notes for this release of Sensa Radar.

Highlights​

  • Beta 6 release of Sensa Radar

Included in this release​

The community release. You can now contribute places, tips, and corrections, and signed-in admins moderate everything from one place.

  • Submit a place — public /list form (no account needed, email + Turnstile). Designed for QR-code business cards. Context-aware fields per category
    (Parking/Overnight, Food & Drink, Fuel, etc.). Live duplicate detection: if your submission looks like an existing place, it's filed as an edit suggestion against that place instead.
  • Edit existing places — pencil icon on map popups (signed-in users) opens the form pre-filled. Approved edits show on the popup with a community or owner badge per field, and previous values appear as struck-through "was X".
  • Owner edits — if your submission email's domain matches the place's website, the form auto-tags it as an owner claim. Admin can approve "as community" or "as owner".
  • Tips — thumbs up/down on any place (signed-in, moderated).
  • Bookmark — save places direct from popups.
  • Email notifications — submitters and reviewers get an approval/rejection email via Resend.
  • Address backfill — places without addr:* tags get a postcode from postcodes.io reverse lookup. (Nominatim reverse was tried and dropped, returned wrong postcodes for rural sites.)
  • Pro vs Lite — Google Places now gated behind Pro tier; Lite stays UK community + OSM sources.
  • Admin area — restructured into Users / Moderation / Searches pages. Moderation queue is paginated with coloured type badges (place, edit, tip), oldest-first for pending. Searches page surfaces 24h/7d/30d query counts, top postcodes, recent searches.
  • Performance — Overpass queries split into 8-category chunks with 2-parallel cap (fixes timeouts on wide-radius multi-category searches).
  • Spam controls — Cloudflare Turnstile on unauthenticated /list, plus DB-backed rate limit (default 10 contributions per 10 min per user/email).

Bug Fixes​

  • OSM timeout: bumped from 8s to 20s to fix car park timeout issues.

Breaking changes​

None.

Upgrade notes​

There is no upgrade path as Radar is a hosted application.

Known issues​

  • No known stable-release issues have been identified at the time of publication

This release is recommended for:

  • Any beta tester of Sensa Radar
  • None