Admiralty Easytide - backward step

andyc352 said:
I’ve been using “Easytide” https://easytide.admiralty.co.uk/ for over 4 years out here in Atlantic Portugal and Spain but as from today it only appears to show UK ports. Is this yet another “Bidet” benefit of global Britain or is there a less sinister reason?
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Simplification - alledgedly - see ADMIRALTY EasyTide to revamp platform and remove Enhanced Predictions in Autumn 2021 | News | ADMIRALTY

(PS I insisted that they refunded my £6.03 of unused tickets - I can be bloody-minded too!)
 
Just refreshed it today and got the new look.

Gone is the nice clear day by day graphs for the next 7 days. Gone is the "printer friendly" version so you can print the tide chart to take with you.

Instead a lousy new presentation that shows the next 7 days in one linear strip with no easy way to isolate a section and print it.

and useless new screen format that means only a part of the screen shows the actual tide graph.

I utterly utterly despair of IT "professionals" that can take a perfectly good, clear, working service and replace it with something so utterly useless and such a huge backward step.

I will add the old version was usable on a mobile phone. I have tried the new one and found it unworkable.
 
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Lightwave395 said:
If you click on the 'more options' button you can select print 7 days and it seems to appear more or less as it did previously. I personally use Meteo Consult as you can print a whole month if you want
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Even there, the tide chart shows as one linear 7 day strip with less detail / resolution than before. The old one showed 2 or 3 day graphs to a page and you just printed the pages you wanted and got a much better view.

So we should be grateful that it is not quite as much of a backward step as I first feared, but still a huge backward step.

And I have tried again on my phone and not found a way to scroll sideways on the now long linear tide graph, so still utterly useless to try and use on a phone.

And i bet someone is getting a bonus and being congratulated for the "super new look"
 
I've no problems scrolling the graph sideways on my phone; just swipe left/right.

And a good improvement is that you see the hourly heights by tapping on the point on the graph. There wasn't a way of doing that before.

I think it's better! (Apart from being UK only)
 
And they are using old mapping. I looked at the results for Rosyth on the Firth of Forth and the new road bridge, the Queensferry Crossing, opened on 30 August 2017, is missing.
 
I actually like the new print format. Yes it was convenient to be able to select 2/3/4 days but with the 'Today' or '7 day' options, the print out is very clear and I'd say the graph is clearer.

And I've just found out, on the export page with the graph, it shows the height of tide for every 30min period, nice. Go to Export and cancel the print.
 
I apologise...
The waste of space map on the left doesn’t scroll about.... what is it there for when you have selected your prediction location The old site took you to a separate page to select a location leaving the entire screen for what you want to know.

The black icons should open up.. they don’t

The tide graph doesn’t appear when selected


I have requested a link to the old site.. Suggest everyone does the same they must ght get the hint.
customerservices@ukho.gov.uk
 
Telstar26 said:
In what way?

(Typical user, telling IT to fix something but refusing to say what!)
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Lets start with:

Once you have selected your port, why does it insist on keeping half your screen showing the map? It should be like the old version, the whole screen shows tide information once you have selected your port. I find it intensely irritating to have the left 2/3 of my screen taken up with something I do not need to see.

Gone are the nice clear day by day large format tide graphs. Replaced with a linear 7 day graph much smaller squashed into the only useful bit of the screen layout, you have to scroll sideways to see the day you want. The sideways scroll function does not work on my phone (though some say it does on theirs)

When you go to the print view, you still have the same linear 7 day graph. I MUCH prefer the larger multiple 1 day graphs
 
The map stays there so you can select another port, much easier for nearby ports than (IIRC) going back 2 pages.

In 7 day view, you don't have to scroll the chart sideways to get another day, just click on the day in the horizontal list of days (like BBC weather)

And the graph has the big advantage that you can actually read off the height (by clicking on the point) for every 30 mins. Before you had to guesstimate it.

It's clearly be redesigned as a mobile-first site, which is a decision I'd agree with.
 
I have just accessed the data and its a doddle to use. The map on the left and the prediction on the right. I like the graph and the half hour markers on the graph, that you just hover the mouse over and it gives the time and height data there and then. The tide table is fine, has the moon indicators for springs or neaps.

I see why some people are commenting about the map being prominent. However, if you are planing a passage, say from the south coast to the Thames, then there are about 40 tide stations and clicking through the relevant stations, with the map alongside, makes reviewing the tide data very easy. Its a good interface in that context. The export function, in my case to pdf, is excellent, the table is full width, portrait, A4 with the curve below it, also full width. If I orientate to landscape the tidal curve is not shown.

All in all, I am happy with the changes.

I think they should also give free access to their Tidal Atlas using a similar feature. Its all been paid for by tax payers in the UK, so issue this stuff, at least in digital format for free to UK citizens. But that is another discussion.
 
I've just been on both my phone and my computer. It is a total revamp but looks better to me, more detail on the tidal curves. Some of it will take a bit of getting used to but seems a considerable improvement. Agree the map is a bit big but it is all a case of get used to it, the detailed curves seem a lot better. Colours and the grey slider? lines a bit less clear but it gets my vote. A couple of weeks ago before the relaunch Easytide went very wonky but they did explain why.
 
Thistle said:
And they are using old mapping. I looked at the results for Rosyth on the Firth of Forth and the new road bridge, the Queensferry Crossing, opened on 30 August 2017, is missing.
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It does show the new Queensferry crossing. However, it doesn't show the original Forth Bridge
 
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