{"id":"6977f69ddb99aea10eaca00a","title":"2026 01 26 Issue 132","path":"how-to/committee/release-notes/2026-01-26-issue-132","contentMarkdown":"# 26-Jan-2026 — walks: add map-based venue selection and bidirectional postcode sync [#132](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/issues/132)\n\n## [build 437](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/actions/runs/21377482016) — [commit f46166e](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/commit/f46166edc5dd92a17451954d5436cce593ce4df3)\n\n_____\n\n## Summary\nAdditional enhancements to venue management: interactive map selection,\nOS Explorer style markers, and prompts to keep venue and starting point aligned.\n## User Guide\n### Walk Editing - Adding Venue Details\n**URL:** `/walks/edit/` → Details tab → Route & Venue section\n**What's Changed**\n- Venue details have moved from the Links tab to the Route & Venue tab, keeping\nall location-related information in one place\n- Route and Venue can be toggled independently or viewed together\n- Venue and starting point stay in step:\n- When you update the venue postcode, you'll be prompted to update the walk\nstarting point to match\n- When you update the starting point, you'll be prompted to update the venue\npostcode to match\n**Search Previous (Default)**\n- Type to search across all previously used venues\n- Results sorted by distance from walk start point (nearest venues shown first)\n- Shows usage count and last-used date for each venue\n- Select a venue to auto-fill all fields (name, address, postcode, type, URL)\n**Website URL**\n- Paste a venue's website URL (e.g., https://www.theredlion.co.uk)\n- Click \"Fetch Details\" to automatically extract venue information\n- System checks local venues first, then scrapes the website if needed\n- Use the search button next to URL field to find a venue's website\n**Smart Paste**\n- Copy venue details from any website (e.g., a pub's contact page)\n- Paste into the text area and click \"Parse & Apply\"\n- Intelligently extracts name, address lines, postcode, and URL\n- Confidence score indicates how well the text was parsed\n**Map**\n- Interactive split-panel view with venue markers on the left\n- Filter venues by type using the dropdown (pub, cafe, car park, etc.)\n- Click an existing marker to select that venue\n- Click anywhere on the map to create a new venue at that location\n- OS Explorer style pins show venue type icons\n**Starting Point Integration**\n- Prompts are optional\n- choose \"Yes\" to sync or \"No\" to keep them different\n- This reduces duplicate data entry when the walk starts from the venue\n- Useful when venue and meeting point are the same location\n### Administration - Managing Venues\n**URL:** `/admin/venue-settings`\nAdministrators can also access venue management via the \"Manage Venues\" button\nshown on the walk edit venue section (admin users only).\n**Venue List**\n- View all stored venues with name, address, type, and usage statistics\n- Sort by name, usage count, or last used date\n- Search to filter the venue list\n**Adding Venues**\n- Click \"Add Venue\" to create a new venue\n- Enter name, address lines, postcode, type, and optional website URL\n- Postcode is automatically geocoded for map positioning\n**Editing Venues**\n- Click any venue to edit its details\n- Update venue type using the icon-based dropdown\n- Changes apply to future walks; existing walks retain their data\n**Venue Types**\n- Pub (beer mug icon)\n- Cafe (coffee cup icon)\n- Restaurant (utensils icon)\n- Car Park (parking icon)\n- Church (cross icon)\n- Hall (building icon)\n- Station (train icon)\n- Other (map marker icon)\n## Technical\n### New Components\n- VenueEditorComponent: reusable venue editing form\n- VenueLookupComponent: tabbed interface for venue search methods\n- VenueMapSelectorComponent: interactive map with venue markers\n### Enhancements\n- OS Explorer style teardrop pins with venue type icons\n- Local venue lookup by base URL before web scraping\n- Fire station recognition in venue parser\n- DRY field references using EventField enum in migrations\n- Mobile responsive toggle layout\n- Consistent button heights and text alignment\n\nVenue Management:\n- Add venue smart paste to parse venue details from clipboard text\n- Add venue autocomplete with distance-based sorting from walk start point\n- Create new VenueService, StoredVenueService, and VenueParserService\n- Add venue settings admin page and backend API endpoints\n- Implement venue type selection with icons (pub, cafe, restaurant, etc.)\n- Fix venue selection to properly clear old field values\nMap View:\n- Add fullscreen map toggle for expanded walk viewing\n- Ensure map centres correctly when a GPX route is displayed on it\n- Finer graduations added to Zoom controls\nWalk List & Search:\n- Simplify walk list by removing client-side pagination (server always returns 10 rows)\n- Load area groups once on service startup and share via ReplaySubject\n- Advanced search now uses cached group data instead of separate API calls\n- Remove dead code (replaceWalkInList, lookupPlaceName)\nRelated Links Tab:\n- Reorder tabs to: Ramblers, OS Maps, Meetup (Ramblers as default)\n- Add section titles for Ramblers, OS Maps, and Meetup tabs\n- Remove duplicate frame wrapper from Meetup component\n- Move DetailsTab enum from component to walk.model.ts\nMeeting Point:\n- Fix alignment between Meeting Time and Meeting Location inputs\n- Add venue postcode prompt to update walk starting point\n- Add option to use venue as meeting point","contentHtml":"

26-Jan-2026 — walks: add map-based venue selection and bidirectional postcode sync #132

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build 437 — commit f46166e

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Summary

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Additional enhancements to venue management: interactive map selection,\nOS Explorer style markers, and prompts to keep venue and starting point aligned.

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User Guide

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Walk Editing - Adding Venue Details

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URL: /walks/edit/<walk-id> → Details tab → Route & Venue section\nWhat's Changed

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Administration - Managing Venues

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URL: /admin/venue-settings\nAdministrators can also access venue management via the "Manage Venues" button\nshown on the walk edit venue section (admin users only).\nVenue List

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Technical

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New Components

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Enhancements

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Venue Management:

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