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Last Week in Pleiades (4-11 July 2022)
Last week we published 15 new place resources. In addition, 136 existing place resources were updated.
Last Week in Pleiades (27 June - 4 July 2022)
Last week we published 25 new place resources. In addition, 90 existing place resources were updated.
Changelog: June 2022
The change log for June 2022 has been posted.
Changelog Additions (January-May 2022)
The changelog service is back in operation. Change logs have been posted for January - May 2022.
Pleiades Updates for 1 April 2022
Five recently created and 8 updated place resources have been added to CSV and JSON downloads this morning and will be reflected in the next weekly RDF export (on Sunday).
Pleiades Updates for 31 March 2022
Two recently created and 6 updated place resources have been added to CSV and JSON downloads this morning and will be reflected in the next weekly RDF export (on Sunday).
System Improvements: March 2022
A report on results from our just-completed spring maintenance week. Most of the effort concentrated on improving our export data formats and enhancing the performance of the user interface used by our contributors and editors to create, curate, and publish Pleiades content; however, we did make one modification to the user interface that all our users will see.
Changelog Additions (December 2021)
The changelog has been posted for December 2021
Changelog Additions (November 2021)
The changelog has been posted for November 2021
Changelog Additions (October 2021)
The changelog has been posted for October 2021
Changelog Additions
Changelogs have been added for July - September 2021
Pleiades Website Availability 22-23 September 2021
Next Wednesday and Thursday, 22-23 September 2021, the Pleiades website will be moved to a new server. The transfer window begins at 5pm US Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday and will last until 5pm on Thursday. If the process goes quickly and smoothly, we may be able to close the transfer window earlier on Thursday.
Pleiades Changelogs: 2021 Year-to-date
We have new code that produces a readable record of changes to place resources in the Pleiades gazetteer. January - May 2021 are now available.
Maintenance 1 December 2020
Pleiades web services will undergo maintenance on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, between noon and 8 pm US Eastern Standard Time.
Pleiades Datasets 2.3 released (12 October 2020)
Latest copies of all our export formats in one handy package.
New Relationship Type: "crosses"
For relationships between bridges and the waterways or water bodies they span.
Pleiades Datasets 2.2 released (7 April 2020)
Latest copies of all our export formats in one handy package.
Pleiades Datasets 2.1 released
Latest copies of all our export formats in one handy package.
Nightly Exports Fixed
Incompleteness and validity problems with JSON, CSV, and KML exports are now resolved.
Maintenance Complete: 10 April 2019
All scheduled maintenance for 10 April 2019 is now complete.