PMS 5.2 Release Notes

Released 15/07/2021

The 5.2 release includes a new OSi road network with 2 years worth of updates, along with the addition of user entered edges.

The codebase has also been refactored to share common components with the RMO’s Public Lighting System. The benefits of sharing parts of the codebase allow features such as thumbnails and performance improvements to be brought directly into PMS.

The many JavaScript libraries have been updated to their latest versions, including the significant step of moving from OpenLayers 4 to OpenLayers 6.

Prime2 Updates

The Prime2 road network update involves 346,579 old edges from 2019 (including edges added from MapRoad and LAs) mapping to 343,267 new Prime2 edges, based on the March 2021 version of OSi’s Prime2. This is 2 years worth of network updates and changes.

278,167 of the current edges have associated data from up to 13 different datasets (segment codes, PSCI, speed limits etc.).

This round of Prime2 updates will add 461 Km of road network and a total of 4,024 edges.

Old edges that route to 1 or more new edges and have <5m of difference in length are automatically transferred. This leaves all roads that have been modified since 2019 to review, and in many cases the default route needs to be adjusted using configuration files and Python scripts.

Each LA is reviewed by one analyst and then a final review/check is carried out by a separate team member to provide an additional level of checks. The table below provides a breakdown of edges that required manual intervention to map to the new network.

Local Authority

Old Edges

Old to New

Manual Overrides

Node Updates

New Prime2 Edges

Carlow

4,267

60

0

8

43

Cavan

9,646

19

3

0

10

Clare

11,790

105

3

20

55

Cork City

10,283

66

6

22

144

Cork

30,614

192

1

19

238

Donegal

20,224

66

5

11

77

Dublin

14,306

79

4

13

133

Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown

8,187

91

3

12

170

Fingal

12,596

181

71

25

521

Galway City

3,924

29

2

3

33

Galway

17,880

141

17

31

207

Kerry

16,906

52

20

8

69

Kildare

12,120

98

9

17

256

Kilkenny

8,423

119

26

8

119

Laois

6,677

25

13

6

63

Leitrim

5,699

24

2

4

17

Limerick

12,395

175

30

15

104

Longford

4,868

37

14

1

18

Louth

8,088

66

22

5

153

Mayo

21,288

37

3

7

32

Meath

13,201

120

11

15

409

Monaghan

6,347

24

4

2

27

Offaly

5,546

17

2

2

17

Roscommon

11,680

83

15

7

21

Sligo

9,086

36

8

2

5

South Dublin

10,401

162

43

21

399

Tipperary

14,263

251

30

2

43

Waterford

9,138

89

17

9

117

Westmeath

6,897

81

33

3

55

Wexford

10,995

58

22

8

241

Wicklow

8,844

122

21

8

224

New Layers

A number of new layers have been added to the new PMS UI, created during the Prime2 review process, and also as part of migrating all layers and functionality from the old UI to the new UI. These are:

Other Layers

  • Speed Ramps

  • Footways Condition Ratings

Base Layers

The Base Layers baselayer has been updated to use tiles from MapBox. This has a clearer and brighter style than the default OSM service which runs on servers supported by donations only.

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Validation Messages on Save Button

When the “Save” button is disabled due to fields on a form being incomplete, a warning triangle is displayed and when hovering over the button the missing field names are displayed in a tooltip. This should help users who are unaware of why they cannot save a record.

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Reset Filters on Layer

The layer context menu (displayed when right-clicking on a layer) now contains a “Reset Filters” option to remove any filters directly without needed to open the associated grid.

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Thumbnails Support

The 5.2 release includes support for displaying thumbnails of images associated with the following entities:

  • Projects

  • Roads Programmes

  • Speed Limits

Any associated files which are images will have a thumbnail displayed in the “Files” grid. Note the thumbnail is only displayed in the grid the next time the form is loaded, or when the “Refresh” button is pressed.

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Double-clicking the record will open the full image in a new floating window, so it can be previewed without downloading. Clicking the image in the floating window will download a copy of the image.

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If the file is not an image it will be downloaded directly when double-clicking on the grid (as previously).

Other Form Changes

  • A History tab has been added to the Speed Limits form, displaying all edits made to the limit

  • A History tab has been added to the Surface Survey form, displaying all edits made to the survey

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MapServer Changes

MapServer has been reconfigured to use theAGG/PNG renderer when generating map images for all the layers in PMS. In addition the following option was set - FORMATOPTION "QUANTIZE_FORCE=on". This results in images that are visually identical but are much smaller in size (in some cases 3x smaller). This in turn will speed up loading of map layers, especially for users on slower Internet connections. Download times reduced by between 20-50%.

The following sizes and download speeds were recorded when testing:

Layer Name

PMS 5.1 Size

PMS 5.2 Size

PMS 5.1 Speed

PMS 5.2 Speed

Tipperary Road Schedule

290 kB

178 kB

679 ms

380 ms

Latest PSCI Ratings

656 kB

200 kB

1.46s

1.37s

Projects

603 kB

189 kB

476 ms

322 ms

JS Dependency Updates

  • OpenLayers 4.6.5 to 6.5.4

  • GeoExt 3 to GeoExt 4

  • BasiGX from 2.1.0 to 3.1.0

  • Proj from 2.5.0 to 2.7.4

  • Sentry 5.29.2 to 6.8.0

Digitising Tool Updates

Additional functionality has been added to the feature selection tools used to create TINs, SEDs etc.

  • Multiple segments can now be selected in the grid and appear selected on the map:

../../_images/multiple_section_selection.png

  • You can now click on a feature in the map to select it in the grid:

../../_images/feature_click_selection.png

  • The features on the map are now also filtered whenever the grid is filtered:

../../_images/feature_filtering.png

Support Tickets

The following support tickets have been resolved in the 5.2 release.