07-Sep-2026 — location descriptions name the village or ward and district rather than the police force #237

build 883 — commit 96f5ab4

What's new

A walk's start, finish or meeting point description comes from the postcode lookup, and for postcodes without a civil parish, which covers most of Greater London, it collapsed to the borough and the police force area, giving labels such as "Bromley, Metropolitan Police". Descriptions are now built from the parish, or the ward where there is no parish, followed by the district, so the same postcode reads "Farnborough & Crofton, Bromley" and a rural one reads "Frittenden, Tunbridge Wells" rather than "Frittenden, Kent, Kent". Existing walks are tidied up by a one-off migration that looks each affected postcode up again and, if the lookup gives nothing, removes the police force area from the description it has.

At a glance

• Unparished postcodes describe the ward and district instead of a police force area
• Rural postcodes keep their parish and gain the district rather than repeating the county
• No segment is repeated when the ward and district share a name
• Dragging the pin in the walk editor uses the same lookup, so it produces the better description too
• Existing walk descriptions that named a police force are rebuilt when the site next starts