What's New
New updates and improvements to FowlTracker
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New
Hey folks! We've made some pretty huge improvements to FowlTracker.
New Model ("Presence") providing year-round data
We're announcing a new model called "Presence Model" which is based on GPS trackers (bands) on real birds, as well as 28 other data sources. What it's doing is tracking real birds (ducks and geese) to determine where birds will hang out for the day. The good news is that this model is available year-round, and is incredibly complementary to our existing radar-based model. This means a few things:
New Model ("Presence") providing year-round data
We're announcing a new model called "Presence Model" which is based on GPS trackers (bands) on real birds, as well as 28 other data sources. What it's doing is tracking real birds (ducks and geese) to determine where birds will hang out for the day. The good news is that this model is available year-round, and is incredibly complementary to our existing radar-based model. This means a few things:
- You can now get data year round for the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways
- We can expand our year round coverage to the entire United States (we're working on that)
- We can eventually split out data so you can see the difference between Ducks and Geese migrations
We've updated the Map page so that you can choose which Model to use. By default, it does "Auto" which picks the best model available based on the date and location you're looking at. For example, some dates only have Presence model data, so it will only show that. Other dates may have some areas with Radar data AND Presence data, in which case it will show Radar where available and fallback to Presence where it's not.
Improved Location-specific data
Now that we have year round data, we've modified the Saved Location page so that it shows all 365 days of the year. We've also changed "Top 10 Days to Go" to "Best Windows to Hunt", which provides a higher level summary of which days of the year have strongest waterfowl activity.
Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
- We fixed quite a few bugs related to the the Map page
- We fixed a bug in Hunt Entry creation where "pills" weren't rendering properly for Guests and Labels fields.
- Dramatic improvements to map load times
- Made it so that data for the previous day comes in much earlier in the day. For example, if you wanted data for April 8th, you'd get it on April 9th at around 4pm Pacific before. You now can get it as early as 11am Pacific.
What's Next
- Coverage for more flyways - We're working on Central and Pacific flyway data for both Presence and Radar models. Once we have that, you'll have amazing data year round for the whole country.
Let us know if you have any feedback or requests!