Merge upstream main (typed chat translations) into pr/street-level-show-action

docs/CURRENT-STATE.md

@@ -2191,7 +2191,12 @@ during continuous motion. Disable/re-enable resets selection cleanly.
 Close-up stem sizing uses camera-to-feature distance without a 5 km minimum.
 Unchanged overlay entries do not request another frame; moved positions,
 changed membership and re-enabling still publish. Ground sampling waits for
-visible globe tiles to settle and uses valid loaded terrain as a floor while
+visible globe tiles to settle, and skips markers whose ground the camera
+cannot see (unseen ground reads through the Earth and would retry every 2 s).
+Ground is tested at loaded globe terrain, or across -9,000 to 9,000 m when the
+globe is hidden, so photoreal views skip only ground well out of view. Until it is
+seen, a stem keeps its unsampled height, which can show for a stem whose base
+is just off screen. Sampling uses valid loaded terrain as a floor while
 retaining rooftop and below-sea-level elevations. A hidden globe does not
 constrain photoreal geometry, and retry work remains bounded. Already sampled
 nearby markers follow higher settled terrain on existing bounded walks, without