Functional updates

• Jul 13, 2026web 0.0.3.51
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  Town maps now show the comune’s official border

  Each town map now outlines the comune’s official administrative boundary (ISTAT) and frames the view to the whole territory — so you can see a town’s true size and shape at a glance, not just a point on the map.

• Jul 13, 2026web 0.0.3.48
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  “On the coast” now finds every coastal town

  The coastal filter now uses real coastline proximity (towns within ~10 km of the sea) instead of a sparse beach label, so it no longer misses genuinely coastal comuni. Pairs with the national-scale filter fix so “On the coast” is now both reliable and complete.

• Jul 12, 2026web 0.0.3.47
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  All town filters now work across the whole country

  The coastal, surroundings, facilities and population-trend filters now load reliably even as coverage grows toward every Italian comune — and the homepage loads much faster. Previously these could show no matches once the dataset got large.

• Jun 26, 2026web 0.0.3.33
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  The “what’s around” view is now a real map

  You can now see a town’s surroundings on an actual map — the town pinned at the centre with nearby features around it — and switch to the quick compass view any time. Same honest rule: we only place what we could locate.

• Jun 25, 2026web 0.0.3.32
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  See what’s around each town — at a glance

  Town pages now have a “What’s around” compass: the town at the centre, with nearby features placed by direction and distance — sea, forest, vineyards and thermal springs on one side; busy roads, railways or industrial zones on the other, so you can see at a glance what you’d gain and what to check. As always, we only place what we could actually locate and never guess a direction.

• Jun 23, 2026data 0.0.2.150
  Coverage

  Coverage is expanding toward all of Italy

  Borgo Data started with a hand-picked set of towns. Behind the scenes it now works through the whole country in parallel, adding comuni in waves — so the map and search keep filling in, on the way to all ~7,900 Italian municipalities. Towns appear only once their core data is in place, and where something genuinely isn’t available for a town we leave it blank rather than guess. Expect new towns to show up steadily rather than all at once.

• Jun 22, 2026web 0.0.3.29
  New data

  The map now shows the real number of towns

  The map of Italy used to show an out-of-date count of towns and regions, frozen from an earlier point. It now counts straight from the towns currently published, so the “N towns across M regions” line and the highlighted areas always match what you can actually explore — and update on their own as towns are added.

• Jun 21, 2026web 0.0.3.28
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  “My own priorities” joins the groups — and ranks from the first choice

  Setting your own priorities now lives alongside the people-groups as “My own priorities”, since it ranks towns rather than filtering them. It also now ranks from the very first thing you pick (it used to need two before scores appeared, which made it feel inconsistent). New filter chips were added too — “Stable / growing” and “Expat community” — plus new themes for towns with an expat community and truly tiny villages.

• Jun 21, 2026web 0.0.3.27
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  Clearer doorways + an easy way back

  The two ways to start are now clearly labelled: people-groups rank every town (nothing hidden, just ordered), while themes filter to only the towns that match. And once you’ve started from any doorway, a “Start over” button takes you straight back to the full set of options.

• Jun 21, 2026web 0.0.3.26
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  Describe what you want — and share your search

  A new box lets you describe a town in plain words — “quiet seaside town near a hospital, under 2,000” — and it sets the matching filters, group and priorities for you, showing exactly what it set so you can adjust. Any search you build can now be copied as a link to share or bookmark, and it reopens exactly as you left it.

• Jun 20, 2026web 0.0.3.23
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  The map and the list now talk to each other

  Filtering the towns now lights up the map: pick a factor, a nearby feature, a search or a population cap and only the regions — then provinces, then comuni — that actually contain matching towns stay highlighted. And the reverse already worked: drilling into a region or province on the map narrows the list to that area.

• Jun 20, 2026web 0.0.3.22
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  Start from who you are — and a leaner first page

  A new “Who’s moving?” row lets you pick Retiree, Family, Remote worker, Student, Expat, Investor, Culture lover or Seasonal worker, and see every town ranked for that group. The home page no longer lists all towns up front — the list appears once you choose a lens (a search, a filter, the map, a group, or your own priorities), so what you see always has a clear order. Town pages also got a real “Back” that returns to wherever you came from.

• Jun 20, 2026web 0.0.3.21
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  Rank towns by your own priorities

  A new “My priorities” panel lets you set how much you personally care about each of 14 things — coast, healthcare, quiet, cost, schools and more. Every town then gets a personalised fit score and the list sorts by it. It’s saved on your own device only — no account, nothing sent to us — and it uses the same transparent scoring method as the rest of the site.

• Jun 20, 2026web 0.0.3.18
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  Explore Italy on a real map

  The home page now opens on a map of Italy you can drill into: click a region to see its provinces, click a province to see its comuni, where the towns we cover are highlighted and open straight to their page. It loads progressively, so it stays fast even though it covers the whole country.

• Jun 20, 2026web 0.0.3.17
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  The full scoring method, published

  The methodology page now shows exactly how the fit scores work: what 0%, 50% and 100% mean for each factor, the full set of weights for all eight audiences, and a real worked example (a town scored for a retiree) where every number is shown and adds up in front of you.

• Jun 19, 2026web 0.0.3.13
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  Sources on every town + the “What’s new” page

  Each town page gained a source strip linking to where its data actually comes from — OpenStreetMap at the town’s location, the comune’s site, the photo source, ISTAT — with the last-updated date. This updates page was added.

• data 0.0.2.128
  New data

  Corrected the EU recovery-fund (PNRR) figures on town pages

  Some town pages were showing wrong PNRR funding totals — a join error let a few small comuni inherit huge national railway payments, which pushed “share paid” above 100%. The figures now join correctly per project and keep the latest cumulative snapshot, and we withhold an execution percentage rather than show an impossible one. If a town looked oddly over-funded before, it reads accurately now.

• Jun 19, 2026data 0.0.2.114
  Database

  The footer shows which version built the surroundings data

  Surroundings refresh on their own schedule, so the dataset now records that separately (proximity_version / loaded-at in the meta table) and the footer shows it — you can see how current each part is.

• data 0.0.2.51
  New data

  Fixed foreign-resident counts that were reading low

  A column-matching bug in the ISTAT citizenship files was picking up only part of each town’s foreign-resident figure, so some counts showed lower than reality. The parser now reads the correct total, so the foreign-resident numbers and the top-citizenship breakdowns on town pages are accurate.

• Jun 18, 2026web 0.0.3.12
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  “How we know this” — methodology + traceability

  Added a methodology page explaining, per source, what it provides, its licence, refresh cadence and limits — sourced and dated, never claimed as “verified true.”

• Jun 17, 2026web 0.0.3.11
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  “Italy first. Europe next.” real map

  Replaced the hand-drawn blob on the home page with a real muted map of Europe — the live country (Italy) filled in, the rest waiting in grey — so it lights up country-by-country as coverage expands.

• Jun 16, 2026web 0.0.3.10 · data 0.0.2.104
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  Filter towns by their surroundings

  Filter for what’s around a town — near a river, lake, coast, forest, mountain or park; away from industry, busy roads, railways, quarries. Built from OpenStreetMap; “not nearby” means “not mapped within range,” shown honestly as unknown. (Surroundings data added to the dataset in crawler 0.0.2.104.)

• web 0.0.3.4
  Database

  Dataset build version shown in the footer

  The footer began showing the data-build id, town count and roster change — distinguishing the data generation (which moves on every rebuild) from the crawler/code version.

• web 0.0.3.3
  New data

  Town photos

  Town pages show one real, openly-licensed photo (Wikimedia Commons / Openverse) with visible attribution. Towns with no suitable free photo show none — never a generic stand-in.

• web 0.0.3.0
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  New landing page — map + honest collections

  A Zillow-style entry point instead of a town list: a search bar and filter chips beside an interactive map of Italy (towns placed by coordinates), plus curated honest “collections” (coastal & small, actually holding on, 1€ schemes live, best-rated). The full list appears only once you’ve narrowed it.

• web 0.0.2.1
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  Search & filter — the decision tool (+ manifesto)

  The directory became a decision tool: tap-to-require / exclude filters for near-coast, 1€ scheme, school nearby and facilities, plus max-population and min-livability, with a live result count. A town with no data for a required trait is excluded, never guessed. Added the “What we believe” page.

• web 0.0.2.0
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  Scores, explanations & a provenance footer

  Every factor row shows a 0–100% score with a tooltip explaining what it measures, plus a footer showing the data’s provenance (crawler version, town count, last load) read from the database.

• web 0.0.1.8
  New data

  Leisure & facilities

  Added a leisure & facilities panel (pool, gym, spa, tennis, golf, playground, park, pitches, paths) with nearest-km or count-within-radius, and honest “none nearby” / “not mapped” handling.

• web 0.0.1.7
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  Audience fit shows its reasoning

  Tapping an audience under “Who this town suits” reveals what drove the score — the top contributing factors with their basis (e.g. “supermarket 0.2km”) and which cared-about factors had no data.

• web 0.0.1.1
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  First site — town profiles, search, honest unknowns

  The first build: home page with a searchable town grid, full per-town profiles (audience-fit spectrum, population trend + ISTAT projection, age chart, service distances, foreign citizenships, 1€-scheme detail), the Supabase data layer and design system, with “unknown” handled honestly throughout.

• data 0.0.1.39
  Coverage

  National catalogue + selection model

  The crawler gained a national comune catalogue and an enable-flag selection model, so the active roster (currently 25 towns) can scale far beyond the initial seed set.

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