Drone Scene Updates - June 2025

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A new version of Drone Scene has been released

(Missed the May updates? Take a look here!)

What’s new in the June 2025 update?

It’s all about the local Meetups in your area

Read on for more details!

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New Feature

• Meetups

A brand new Meetups Layer is now available on Drone Scene

You can browse meetups that are currently being organised by club members across the UK and you can create and organise your own meetup with just a few clicks.

You can register your interest in someone else’s meetup and receive notifications and it will even be added to the calendar on your phone

A detailed map of each meetup is available that includes specific markers just for that meetup so you’ll know exactly where to park, where to meet, where to take off from and much more.

There is a full step by step guide on how to organise a meetup at:

Drone Scene - How to create a Meetup

This guide will help you organise and create a Meetup with other club members in your area. There are two ways to create a meetup. If you’re organising a meetup up that isn’t based at an existing location on the map you can create a meetup using the Create Meetup menu option: [Create Meetup] If your planned meetup is at an existing location on the map, simply click the Create a Meetup here? button on the location details page: [Create Meetup at an existing location] Using the Create a Me…

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UI / UX Change

• Automatically close the Search & Filter panel when viewing the details of a location

When you’re viewing the details of a location the search panel was taking up a lot of valuable real estate. We want to keep the focus on the location details here and the search box being detracts from that.

This only affects Desktop view, the Search & Filter panel is closed by default on mobile.

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UI / UX Change

• Changed the Person icon in the menu navigation bar

The top menu navigation bar used to have a person icon which when clicked would reveal a sub-menu couple of other options relating to your profile settings.

This sub-menu now contains items other than just your profile-related settings so the icon has been replaced with a simple down arrow.

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Bug Fix

• Unable to close the Map Layer menu if you previously used Elevation or Local Authority tools

– Reported by @MrSpongeHead

When using Chromium based browsers on Android the Map Layers icon became unresponsive after using the Elevation Tool or the Local Authority lookup tool.

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Other Random Stuff

I want to give all the @beta-testers a huge round of applause

Their help with building out every aspect of the Meetups feature and testing it all to within an inch of its life over the last six week has been invaluable - this feature could not have happened without them

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Thank you

As ever, please keep those feature requests coming. Drone Scene is only as good as your feedback!

We also hope you find this level of release notes / details useful

But don’t forget!

In order to use all the features of Drone Scene you need to be a Silver or Gold Member of Grey Arrows Drone Club.

Membership is available from as little as £1.34 per month

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Just a quick reminder, check out this other thread for everything you need to know about creating a meetup:

Drone Scene - How to create a Meetup

This guide will help you organise and create a Meetup with other club members in your area. There are two ways to create a meetup. If you’re organising a meetup up that isn’t based at an existing location on the map you can create a meetup using the Create Meetup menu option: [Create Meetup] If your planned meetup is at an existing location on the map, simply click the Create a Meetup here? button on the location details page: [Create Meetup at an existing location] Using the Create a Me…

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The Top 10 stats for the Meetups leaderboard is starting to get some data on it now

Check it out at https://dronescene.co.uk/about#Top10Meetups

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