fix(cctv): keep missing numbers unknown instead of reading them as zero

Number() reads null, blank strings and booleans as 0 (or 1), and
/api/cctv/sources sends an unknown number as JSON null. A source-pack
camera that left out its pose therefore reached the browser as zeros
clamped to each field's floor (north, pitch -2, FOV 20, range 120 m,
mount 6 m, ground 0 m) instead of taking the defaults, and a null or
blank position put the camera at 0,0.

toFiniteNumber (server) and safeNumber (browser) now return the fallback
for absent, blank and boolean values, as validateBox already does for
Recent Imagery. The same conversion fixes the per-pack paths: a Tallinn
row with a null heading no longer reads as a high-confidence north-facing
camera, a Caltrans camera with a blank elevation keeps its 150 m ground
prior, and TfL or Catalonia cameras with a null or blank coordinate are
dropped instead of kept at 0,0 or on the zero meridian.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Changelog
 
+- Keep missing CCTV numbers unknown instead of reading them as zero. `Number`
+  turns null, blank strings and booleans into 0 or 1, and the camera source
+  list sends an unknown number as JSON null, so a source-pack camera that left
+  out its pose reached the browser as zeros clamped to each field's floor —
+  facing north, pitch −2°, FOV 20°, range 120 m, mount 6 m and ground 0 m —
+  instead of the defaults (id-hash heading, −17°, 74°, 700 m, 24 m and the
+  city's ground); a null or blank position placed the camera at 0,0. The
+  server's `toFiniteNumber` and the browser's `safeNumber` now treat absent,
+  blank and boolean values as missing. The same conversion also stops a
+  Tallinn row with a null heading reading as a confident north-facing camera,
+  a Caltrans camera with a blank elevation losing its 150 m ground prior, and
+  a TfL or Catalonia camera with a null or blank coordinate being kept at 0,0
+  or on the zero meridian.
+
 - Cyclone advisories no longer go dark while NHC publishes an advisory ahead
   of its nominal time: advisory and position times up to 90 minutes ahead of
   the server clock are accepted (previously 5 minutes), so the whole feed is

docs/CURRENT-STATE.md

@@ -1314,6 +1314,17 @@ Node-only package entries expose both provider factories. Routes, payloads,
 fallback behavior and existing dev/preview hook registration are preserved;
 browser rendering is unchanged.
 
+## CCTV missing numeric fields
+
+CCTV numbers are read as missing when they are absent, null, blank or boolean,
+on the server (`toFiniteNumber`, every pack and the file/env source packs) and
+in the browser (`safeNumber`). `/api/cctv/sources` sends an unknown number as
+JSON null; the browser then applies the field's default — id-hash heading,
+pitch −17°, FOV 74°, range 700 m, mount 24 m, the city's ground elevation —
+rather than reading zero and clamping it to the field's floor. A camera with a
+missing latitude or longitude is skipped by the browser catalog instead of
+being placed at 0,0. Real zeros, including `"0"`, are kept.
+
 ## Terrain, traffic, fire and bike-share provider modules
 
 Local composition now imports separate Node modules for Re:Earth heights,

scripts/format-scope.json

@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
   "server/providers/cctv/constants.js",
   "server/providers/cctv/media.js",
   "server/providers/cctv/normalize.js",
+  "src/data/cctvMissingNumbers.test.mjs",
   "server/providers/cctv/sources.js",
   "server/providers/radio.js",
   "server/providers/radio/catalog.js",

server/providers/cctv/normalize.js

@@ -39,11 +39,21 @@ export function escapeXml(text) {
 /**
  * Coerce a value to a finite number, returning fallback if NaN/Infinity.
  *
+ * Absent, blank and boolean values take the fallback too: `Number` reads
+ * null, '' and false as 0, which would turn a missing coordinate, heading or
+ * elevation into a real zero.
+ *
  * @param {*} value
  * @param {number} [fallback=NaN]
  * @returns {number}
  */
 export function toFiniteNumber(value, fallback = NaN) {
+  if (
+    value == null ||
+    typeof value === 'boolean' ||
+    (typeof value === 'string' && !value.trim())
+  )
+    return fallback;
   const num = Number(value);
   return Number.isFinite(num) ? num : fallback;
 }

src/data/cctvMissingNumbers.test.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import {
+  fallbackHeadingFromId,
+  isLikelyCataloniaCoordinate,
+  toFiniteNumber,
+} from '../../server/providers/cctv/normalize.js';
+import {
+  loadCaltransSourcesFromOpenData,
+  loadTallinnSourcesFromCatalog,
+  loadTflSourcesFromOpenData,
+  parseCataloniaXml,
+} from '../../server/providers/cctv/sources.js';
+import { cctvProxy } from '../../server/providers/cctv.js';
+import { createCatalog } from '../layers/cctv/catalog.js';
+import { createModel } from '../layers/cctv/model.js';
+
+/** Values `Number` reads as 0 (or 1) although they carry no number. */
+const ABSENT = [null, undefined, '', ' ', false, true];
+
+/** Set env vars for one test and restore them afterwards. */
+function withEnv(t, env) {
+  for (const [name, value] of Object.entries(env)) {
+    const previous = process.env[name];
+    t.after(() => {
+      if (previous === undefined) delete process.env[name];
+      else process.env[name] = previous;
+    });
+    if (value === undefined) delete process.env[name];
+    else process.env[name] = value;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Silence the loaders' progress and failure logging. */
+function quiet(t) {
+  t.mock.method(console, 'log', () => {});
+  t.mock.method(console, 'warn', () => {});
+}
+
+/** The production browser model; only the catalog's pose pass is stubbed. */
+function browserModel() {
+  const parts = {};
+  parts.model = createModel({
+    state: {},
+    services: { focus: {} },
+    parts,
+    source: {},
+  });
+  return parts.model;
+}
+
+/** The browser catalog over the production model. */
+function browserCatalog(model, cityPois = {}) {
+  return createCatalog({
+    state: {},
+    services: { locations: { CITY_POIS: cityPois } },
+    parts: { model: { ...model, ensureCameraPose: () => {} } },
+    source: {},
+  });
+}
+
+/** GET /api/cctv/sources through the real proxy middleware. */
+async function requestSources(plugin) {
+  let handler;
+  plugin.configureServer({
+    middlewares: {
+      use(_route, fn) {
+        handler = fn;
+      },
+    },
+  });
+  const res = {
+    writeHead(status, headers) {
+      Object.assign(this, { status, headers });
+    },
+    end(body) {
+      this.body = body;
+    },
+  };
+  await handler({ url: '/sources', method: 'GET' }, res);
+  assert.equal(res.status, 200);
+  return JSON.parse(res.body);
+}
+
+test('absent, blank and boolean values take the fallback on both sides of the source list', () => {
+  const { safeNumber } = browserModel();
+  for (const value of ABSENT) {
+    assert.ok(Number.isNaN(toFiniteNumber(value)), `server ${String(value)}`);
+    assert.equal(toFiniteNumber(value, 15), 15, `server ${String(value)}`);
+    assert.ok(Number.isNaN(safeNumber(value)), `browser ${String(value)}`);
+    assert.equal(safeNumber(value, 74), 74, `browser ${String(value)}`);
+  }
+  for (const [value, expected] of [
+    [0, 0],
+    ['0', 0],
+    [-17, -17],
+    [' 12.5 ', 12.5],
+  ]) {
+    assert.equal(toFiniteNumber(value, 99), expected);
+    assert.equal(safeNumber(value, 99), expected);
+  }
+});
+
+test('a source-pack camera that omits or nulls its pose gets the browser defaults, not the clamp floors', async (t) => {
+  quiet(t);
+  const pose = {
+    headingDeg: null,
+    pitchDeg: null,
+    fovDeg: null,
+    rangeM: null,
+    mountHeightM: null,
+    groundElevationM: null,
+  };
+  const at = { cityId: 'austin', lat: 30.2672, lon: -97.7431 };
+  withEnv(t, {
+    CCTV_SOURCES_FILE: path.join(tmpdir(), 'gev-no-such-pack.json'),
+    CCTV_SOURCES_JSON: JSON.stringify([
+      { id: 'pack-pose-omitted', ...at, feedType: 'image' },
+      { id: 'pack-pose-null', ...at, ...pose, feedType: 'image' },
+      { id: 'pack-coords-null', lat: null, lon: null, feedType: 'image' },
+      { id: 'pack-coords-blank', lat: '', lon: ' ', feedType: 'image' },
+    ]),
+  });
+
+  const body = await requestSources(cctvProxy({ sourceRoot: tmpdir() }));
+  const model = browserModel();
+  const cameras = browserCatalog(model, {
+    austin: { name: 'Austin', groundElevation: 150 },
+  }).buildCatalogFromSources(body.sources);
+  const byId = new Map(cameras.map((camera) => [camera.id, camera]));
+
+  for (const id of ['pack-pose-omitted', 'pack-pose-null']) {
+    const camera = byId.get(id);
+    assert.ok(camera, id);
+    assert.equal(camera.headingDeg, model.headingFromId(id), id);
+    assert.equal(camera.pitchDeg, -17, id);
+    assert.equal(camera.fovDeg, 74, id);
+    assert.equal(camera.rangeM, 700, id);
+    assert.equal(camera.mountHeightM, 24, id);
+    assert.equal(camera.groundElevationM, 150, id);
+  }
+  // No position is not a camera in the Gulf of Guinea.
+  assert.equal(byId.has('pack-coords-null'), false);
+  assert.equal(byId.has('pack-coords-blank'), false);
+});
+
+test('Tallinn rows with a null heading or ground keep the low-confidence prior', (t) => {
+  quiet(t);
+  const root = mkdtempSync(path.join(tmpdir(), 'gev-tallinn-'));
+  t.after(() => rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true }));
+  const file = path.join(root, 'tallinn.json');
+  writeFileSync(
+    file,
+    JSON.stringify([
+      {
+        id: 'tln-null-heading',
+        lat: 59.437,
+        lon: 24.753,
+        headingDeg: null,
+        groundElevationM: null,
+        url: 'https://ristmikud.tallinn.ee/last/cam001.jpg',
+      },
+    ]),
+  );
+  withEnv(t, { CCTV_TALLINN_SOURCES_FILE: file });
+
+  const [camera] = loadTallinnSourcesFromCatalog({ sourceRoot: root });
+  assert.equal(camera.headingConfidence, 'low');
+  assert.equal(camera.headingDeg, fallbackHeadingFromId('tln-null-heading'));
+  assert.equal(camera.groundElevationM, 15);
+});
+
+test('TfL JamCams with null coordinates are dropped instead of placed at 0,0', async (t) => {
+  quiet(t);
+  const jamCam = (id, lat, lon) => ({
+    id: `JamCams_${id}`,
+    commonName: `JamCam ${id}`,
+    lat,
+    lon,
+    additionalProperties: [
+      { key: 'available', value: 'true' },
+      {
+        key: 'imageUrl',
+        value: `https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/jamcams.tfl.gov.uk/${id}.jpg`,
+      },
+    ],
+  });
+  t.mock.method(globalThis, 'fetch', async () =>
+    Response.json([
+      jamCam('00001.00001', 51.5072, -0.1276),
+      jamCam('00001.00002', null, null),
+      jamCam('00001.00003', 51.5072, ''),
+    ]),
+  );
+
+  const cameras = await loadTflSourcesFromOpenData();
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    cameras.map((camera) => camera.id),
+    ['tfl-00001.00001'],
+  );
+});
+
+test('a Catalonia feature with a blank longitude is not read as the zero meridian', () => {
+  const feature = (coordinates) => `<gml:featureMember>
+    <cite:cameres fid="cameres.1">
+      <gml:coordinates>${coordinates}</gml:coordinates>
+      <cite:link>https://example.org/cam.jpg</cite:link>
+    </cite:cameres>
+  </gml:featureMember>`;
+  const [blank, valid] = parseCataloniaXml(
+    feature(',41.5') + feature('2.17,41.39'),
+  );
+  // 0 °E at 41.5 °N is inside the Catalonia box, so a zero would pass it.
+  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(blank.lon));
+  assert.equal(isLikelyCataloniaCoordinate(blank.lat, blank.lon), false);
+  assert.equal(isLikelyCataloniaCoordinate(valid.lat, valid.lon), true);
+});
+
+test('a Caltrans camera with a blank elevation keeps the 150 m ground prior', async (t) => {
+  quiet(t);
+  withEnv(t, { CCTV_CALTRANS_DISTRICTS: '4' });
+  t.mock.method(globalThis, 'fetch', async () =>
+    Response.json({
+      data: [
+        {
+          cctv: {
+            inService: 'true',
+            location: {
+              latitude: '37.8044',
+              longitude: '-122.2712',
+              elevation: '',
+              locationName: 'TV101 -- I-880 : Test Ave',
+            },
+            imageData: {
+              static: {
+                currentImageURL:
+                  'https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/data/d4/cctv/image/tv101/tv101.jpg',
+              },
+            },
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    }),
+  );
+
+  const [camera] = await loadCaltransSourcesFromOpenData();
+  assert.ok(camera);
+  assert.equal(camera.groundElevationM, 150);
+});

src/layers/cctv/model.js

@@ -97,12 +97,23 @@ export function createModel({ state: layerState, services, parts, source }) {
 
   /**
    * Coerces a value to a finite number or returns the fallback.
+   *
+   * Absent, blank and boolean values return the fallback as well. The source
+   * list serializes an unknown number (NaN) as JSON null, and `Number(null)`
+   * is 0, so without this an unknown pose field arrived as zero and was
+   * clamped to the field's floor instead of taking its default.
    * @param {*} value
    * @param {number} [fallback=NaN]
    * @returns {number}
    */
 
   function safeNumber(value, fallback = NaN) {
+    if (
+      value == null ||
+      typeof value === 'boolean' ||
+      (typeof value === 'string' && !value.trim())
+    )
+      return fallback;
     const n = Number(value);
     return Number.isFinite(n) ? n : fallback;
   }