UPDATES   - Summary revision history: 2012.01.02 Upgraded login to use oauth 2.0 as per new Facebook connect standard. 2012.01.02 Added heading to where query replies, formally only returned last known location, now includes direction. 2011.12.26 Added period selector to plot, allowing users to include wide date ranges from options menu. 2011.11.30 Upoc.com has ceased operation. Cleared feed configs and disabled upoc monitor cron. 2011.10.15 Improved personal ride recording, now saved to /pub mass, so as to not clutter the /now mass. User menu now merged directly onto Facebook button. v4.10 2011.10.15 Added information readout to Plot, shows all distance/speed stats, and calories calculation, even saves your weight. 2011.10.14 Direction (compass bearing: N/S/E/W) now shown on speedometer. Also saved with postings and shown in text details. Also, consecutive postings now show increment distance since prior rather than radius from start. Speed tracking also generally improved, calculated immediately for every posting, rather than requiring multiple samples. 2011.09.26 Added Farmers Markets Chicago dataset. v4.05 2011.09.25 Interface improvements including popup submenus on action and plot tabs. Added new powerful text search capability to chatter. 2011.09.19 Changed public message IDs to use text based on contents keys (was #s) for search engine friendliness. 2011.09.14 Massive improvements to find nearby / community features, also added public postings capability. New shortcut BeNear.me 2011.09.02 New text search capability added to find me page, allows manual find by address. 2011.09.02 Added big obvious help ? buttons with context specific quick hints popups, and better titles on several pages. 2011.09.01 Added LatLon calculation and maintenance to ChicagoFunNews.com calendar system. Added ChicagoFunNews.com events feed to massup. 2011.08.31 Perfected OLD/NEW navigation in plots. Now properly goes to next period containing points. v3.56 2011.08.27 Overhauled menu system. New single big MENU button now pops-up full menu of all functions with text descriptions on each. Replaces rows of main and submenu buttons, Also improved all buttons and improved structure some. http://MassUp.us/menu 2011.08.25 Major improvements to database speed, optimized joins and persistence. 2011.08.22 Improved find me, adding manual tap to pick, and search by text address. 2011.08.15 Submitted to http://AppsForMetroChicago.com competition. 2011.08.08 Phone numbers now automatically hyperlinked for tap to call on SmartPhones. 2011.08.08 Added http://ChicagoBikeShops.info dataset, full details on all Chicago area bike shops. Find bike service nearest you: http://MassUp.us/service 2011.08.08 Reviewed for ADA compliance. 2011.08.02 Added live speedometer. Tap for rough odometer. 3.48 2011.08.04 Auto-post now requires login to post to any named mass, to reduce spurious location reports. Anonymous postings now automatically redirected to public mass. 2011.08.02 Added http://MassUp.us QR barcode to share/Facebook page. http://massup.us/fb 2011.08.01 Merged Google / KML / 3D buttons on plot into single EXPORT button, giving a new output format selector page. 2011.07.31 CITY DATA Points of Interest overlays now available from NEARBY button on map and plot views. Also linked to details view by proximity! Ex. http://massup.us/rack 2011.07.31 Self-locator now allows manual picking, enables use from older and non-GPS browsers. 2011.07.30 Mass selector page now shows thumbnails for each ride. v3.45 2011.07.30 Improved domains counter in spam detector. 2011.07.30 Distance calculations overhauled, now properly considers ellipsoid. Plot distance now matches KML version. Also upped max speed reasonability limit to 79 (to allow motorized vehicles). 2011.07.30 Now supports PNG image uploads. Creates JPG copy when received. v3.44 2011.07.30 Changed commands to "w" (or l) for where and a for Air (weather). Makes training easier, and matches main navigation. Was [W]eather and [L]ocation. 2011.07.13 Improvements to signature stripping on incoming messages and commands. 2011.07.10 Added show photo messages only third mode to text/pics button in CHAT. 2011.07.06 Finished "Bikker" game! Bicycle based version of classic Frogger. Cross a busy highway, ride trains, deal with pedestrians, to park at bike racks. Works in portrait or landscape. v3.41 http://MassUp.us/game 2011.06.06 Added new "Override" mass status, makes a mass current default regardless of date. v3.40 2011.06.04 Auto-GPS profiles now selectable: Slow, Fast, Continuous, Text Only, Low Power, etc. Configurable by admin live. 2011.05.31 Auto-correct post time when feed incorrectly reports zone. 2011.04.24 Major power saving and responsiveness improvements to Auto-GPS. Changed from constant follow to timed periodic, with careful attention to all timing factors. Should now pace at about 4 seconds per sample, dramatically reducing Internet and GPS activity, thus maximally reducing power use. Also resolves callback queue overflow which caused occasional sluggishness. Map and location now initialized from last known (from local store if returning user), else mass start, allowing immediate rendering. Then updated from recent GPS subsystem cache, then freshened. Address description lookup also now updated asynchronously and cached. 2011.04.20 Increase size of full photo zoom. Displays quicker new mid-sized version on message view. 2011.04.08 Improved display and edit of distance and speed. Improved sessioning and caching. v3.36 2011.04.08 Plots now include points within period days after and before ride date. Fixes problem of plots truncated on rides overlapping midnight. 2011.04.01 User interface accuracy improvements. Add some spacing around buttons and after/before header/footer. Move older/newer links to top in message view, also added space above map links. 2011.03.26 Major Plot improvements, points now link to source messages. Path fattened; New tiny blue custom markers (replaces big pushpin icons), mouseover for datetime, click to see source message; More points now shown on phones (minimum distance reduced). v3.34 2011.03.24 Differentiated maximum message lengths for: reasonability, stored text, stored details, displayed, forwarded. 2011.03.16 Added RSS feed from http://BreakTheGridlock.org articles, also from http://ActiveTrans.org blog and conditions reports, also from http://ChicagoCriticalMass.org listserv. 2011.03.15 Centralize all cron processes: emails, offsite feeds, weather updates, for all masses, with various weighting, now handled automatically. 2011.03.14 Archives now fully integrated. v3.33 Formerly only past flyers were stored. Now archives are databased, copied from parent mass, retaining dated map and cues, and interlinked with chat and plot for the period. All history converted. For examples see recent rides at http://massup.us/ccm/f 2011.03.13 Major editor improvements. Used by admins to maintain messages, masses and archives. Added location picker. Added date/time picker. Added copy and delete functions. 2011.03.12 Also: Image resizing improvements including addition of new mid-size for dashboard use. Cues now auto-marksup links. Speed improvements. New LESS/MORE links in PLOT, filters included locations to admin/trusted/all. 2011.03.09 Presented at the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Council. Well received. http://www.thechainlink.org/events/mayors-bicycle-advisory-4 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13208302 2011.03.05 Added RSS feed capability. Chat can now draw from any capable sites (including Twitter profiles). v3.30 Also added "Chicago Bicyle Program" (CB) demo mass, http://MassUp.us/cb 2011.03.04 Improved mass admin's capabilities. Enabled full message editing, and added an image manager tool. v3.28 2011.02.24 Added Quick Start guide. Covers text messaging commands, posting methods, and Facebook connect. http://MassUp.us/use v3.27 2011.02.23 Finished Facebook comments fetch. Postings to a mass's Facebook wall now appear in chat here. 2011.02.21 Dashboard now shows freshest photo when mass has no map. 2011.02.21 Posted a Quick (2:39) Intro video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-knvhx8Pws 2011.02.20 Improved main nav and footer buttons, adding rounding and gradients in pure CSS for speed. Corners are squared in IE, but fine on others. v3.24 2011.02.20 Restored World Naked Bike Ride Chicago chat history from 2010 and 2009: http://MassUp.us/wnbrc/c 2011.02.20 Improved message response time to under 20 seconds. 2011.02.19 Added free stickers request form with thumbnails, quantity selectors, name/email/address validations: http://MassUp.us/stickers 2011.02.10 Finally made "Create a Mass" function public. Accepts a mass request submission form with full help and validations. Linked from user menu, from other masses list, and from help. v3.21 2011.02.08 Added a comprehensive illustrated introduction and linked all help together: http://MassUp.us/about 2011.02.08 Added a DONATE page: http://MassUp.us/donate 2011.02.04 INTERNATIONALIZED! Postings now support any language. Tested completely, even SMS and Twitter. Also added automatic metric/english Km/Mi speed/distance display conversion, set by Country of Mass. Also added auto-translate links (tiny flag icons) on all help/about pages. (v3.20) 2011.01.28 Facebook Connect added, enables new personal features. Track your rides, download KMLs, manage your messages, share, post, like, etc. http://MassUp.us/fb 2011.01.02 Added NEARBY tool, plots nearest of various important services such as bike shops, train stations, restaurants, bars, etc, relative to your last known location. http://massup.us/h 2010.12.30 Added "Uber" address (u@massup.us) which always refers to the CURRENT mass. Current being either an active dated mass, or the default NOW mass when no dated one is current. In print, a mass should still use it's individual address, but when active users can simply use u. This applies to all features such as posting, commands, and follows. (v3.0) 2010.12.29 AUTO (continuous automatic) postings now distinguished as lower status from GPS postings (user tap), and not included in default follows. 2010.12.27 Finished user authority handling. Implements everything from appointing mass administrators, to spam checking, to weighing message trustworthiness, to blocking the unruly, even if offsite. 2010.12.22 OLDER button added to Plots. Allows browsing historically through plots of rides. Converted all Plot outputs to dynamically generated KML, which also improves the DETAIL and 3D TOUR outputs. 2010.12.20 Added simple widgetizable feed insert for offsite embedding. Shows recent messages to any or all masses. Demo at http://bedno.com/gps 2010.12.19 Use full window area when accessed from PC. 2010.12.18 Implemented Sticky message. Admin can now tag messages to stay at top of chatter (and excluded from Plot). Allows better variable event postings in open mass channel. 2010.12.17 Revisions to menu system. MORE tab now always shown, leads directly to mass selector. TERMS and other primary background info links moved under ABOUT. POST and PLOT subtabs now always present under CHAT. New TOOLS tab under MORE features Police Radio Scanner, head and tail light apps, and new Mass Counter app. New Mass Counter app keeps track of three categories with big tap areas, buttons for up/down, increment, reset, and can Post to chatter including date and location info automatically! Non-volatile stores in browser data, resumes counting at any time. 2010.12.14 Added speedometer display. When using GPS auto-post, once moving, each posting calculates and displays speed using distance/time since prior posting, limiting to reasonable min/max ranges. Speed is logged and appears on such postings in chatter. 2010.12.13 Improved map zoom calibration to use actual calculated miles per pixel. Interesting exponential math dealing with Google Maps tiles. Also revised equation for distance calculations. 2010.12.13 Added live police radio scanner audio feed link (labeled "Alerts") to bottom of Air (end of weather page). Dynamic MP3 stream URL, periodically re-fetched and parsed from offsite (ChicagoScanner.com) parent page. Works on iPhones. 2010.12.04 Added "Heading?" and "Catchup?" compass-like functions linked from any map. Quickly tells users the distance and heading to a point. Use to find last reported location, ride start, or any spot in cues, chatter, photos, etc. Shows overview, links to offsite directions, more. v2.94 2010.12.02 Added new "MAP" command, sends current graphic to user for viewing on basic phones. Works for users texting to a mass' email (no Hotline SMS/MMS), with phone capable of viewing pictures. For a demo text "map" to ghosts@massup.us for the Ghost Bikes Tour's map image. 2010.11.29 Added "View in Google Maps" link to Plot page. Opens KML in Google Maps on web when viewed on PC. Improved Tour view (embedded Google Earth virtual fly-through) to autoresize to full window. Added Facebook share button. Conditionally renders static map and plot images and stand-in thumbnails for text only pages, so Facebook always gets a graphic. 2010.11.24 Improvement to DEFAULT Mass. New "NOW" (now@massup.us http://MassUp.us/now) catch-all mass created, open for any local bicycle related chatter. Also monitors "massup" Twitter and Upoc feeds. System now defaults to featured ("Now") mass if next is more than a few days away and prior is more than a day past. Formerly always simply defaulted to next (/current) mass. Posting by Hotline option now only shown (and applicable to) default mass. Also improvements to chat hour range checking to better handle admin off-day broadcasts. Also added decoding of HTML symbols for readability in text messages. 2010.11.23 Geolocation lookup now attempted on any postings where text contains something address-like. Determines GPS automatically (if absent) if identifiable location described (such as address or intersection). All posting types may now potentially contribute to Plot data, even Cues and bare SMS. Also now weighs location and distance for trustworthiness, allowing reliable use of "where" auto-responder even when no admins contributing. v2.80 2010.11.22 Thumbnails now shown by default for photos in chat feed. Formerly defaulted to text, with PICS option button at page end. 2010.11.22 Improved online Plot view. Suppress points too close in time or space to reduce clutter. Route lines now filtered by point to point speed to create most useful connections when multiple location feeds. Also made Plot Days configurable by Mass. 2010.11.22 Moved Lonely Locked Bits of Bikes collection to http://massup.us/llbb 2010.11.18 Added Tour data to the KML output. Mac/PC Google Earth users can now watch an embedded animated 3D fly through from any Plot page. 2010.11.16 Perfected GPS auto-posting. Location now auto-follows, uses highest accuracy, defeats caching, and uses active map with bicycle layer (formerly used static image fetch). Also added FAST mode (posts every 40 seconds versus 5 minutes). Also now retains prior description until new place name lookup completed, to reduce raw LatLon postings. Also internally converted to AJAX (a "Web2.x" method). Postings now sent in background so app never leaves page. Eliminates disruption due to spotty network (posting may fail but page doesn't halt). AutoPost can now be added to home screen and operates on iPhone as pure standalone WebApp. 2010.11.08 V2.x series tested well lately on Chicago Critical Mass, Midnight Marauders, and Chicago Ghost Bike Tour rides. 2010.11.07 Added cue points handling for easy broadcast of next destination. V2.70 2010.11.05 Added vote gathering capability. Simply text a number (1-99) only. Responses logged, viewable by admin. 2010.11.02 Added automatic timed GPS posting capability. 2010.10.30 Added plotting of GPS postings, with route trace and KML 2010.10.28 Changed ChicagoCriticalMass.org mobile from Upoc to MassUp. 2010.10.26 Added automatic repeat date handling, and chat hour ranges. 2010.10.25 Widgetized for offsite embedding of any views. 2010.10.23 Added follow capability, notifies on postings (off/news/on/all levels). 2010.10.22 Finished true SMS handling (773-33-MASS-8) 2010.10.20 Changed to minimal LCARS (Star Trek) style interface. 2010.10.19 Added weather, notes, intro and help to autoresponder. 2010.10.19 Added auto-responder, replies with newest trusted location posting. 2010.10.18 Added speech to text voice posting to the chat feed. 2010.10.17 Added photo uploading to the chat feed with automatic geolocation. 2010.10.14 Added GPS posting to the chat feed. 2010.10.06 Added Twitter to the chat feed. 2010.10.03 V2 conversion to fully database driven. 2010.07.01 In continuous use more than a year including CCM monthlies and WNBR-C6+7. 2009.05.25 Version 1.0 released with all basic planned features. 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