diff --git a/src/layers/streetLevel/selection.js b/src/layers/streetLevel/selection.js
index fd395e6aa..14eeb59ea 100644
--- a/src/layers/streetLevel/selection.js
+++ b/src/layers/streetLevel/selection.js
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ import { POSITION_PICK_ID, STREET_LEVEL_LAYER_ID } from './policy.js';
 import { PICK_PREFIX } from './providers/mapillary/policy.js';
 import { sequenceIdFromPick } from './providers/mapillary/coverage.js';
 
-/** Hover picks at most ~8 times a second (like the CCTV layer), never per frame. */
-const HOVER_PICK_INTERVAL_MS = 120;
-
 /** One click/hover handler for coverage lines, image cones and the marker. */
 export function createSelection({ state, parts }) {
   const { picking, input } = state.services;
@@ -54,104 +51,40 @@ export function createSelection({ state, parts }) {
     parts.sequences.clearSelection();
   }
 
-  let hoverQueued = false;
-  let hoverCursor = false;
+  /** Where the pointer is, until a frame picks it; a drag picks nothing. */
   let hoverPosition = null;
-  let hoverLastPickAt = -Infinity;
-  let hoverTimer = null;
-  let pointerButtons = 0;
-  let removeHoverWatchers = null;
+  let hoverCursor = false;
+  let dragging = false;
 
   function setHoverCursor(canvas, hit) {
-    if (hit && !hoverCursor) {
-      canvas.style.cursor = 'pointer';
-      hoverCursor = true;
-    } else if (!hit && hoverCursor) {
-      canvas.style.cursor = '';
-      hoverCursor = false;
-    }
+    if (hit === hoverCursor) return;
+    canvas.style.cursor = hit ? 'pointer' : '';
+    hoverCursor = hit;
   }
 
   function pickHover() {
-    hoverQueued = false;
-    const viewer = state.viewer;
+    const position = hoverPosition;
+    hoverPosition = null;
+    const canvas = state.viewer?.scene?.canvas;
     // Switched off (or torn down) since the frame was queued.
-    if (!viewer || !state.enabled || !state.clickHandler) return;
-    // A drag in progress: the pointer is the camera's.
-    if (pointerButtons !== 0) return;
-    const canvas = viewer.scene?.canvas;
-    if (!canvas || viewer.isDestroyed?.()) return;
-    hoverLastPickAt = Date.now();
+    if (!canvas || !state.enabled || !state.clickHandler || dragging) return;
     let hit = false;
     try {
-      const picked = viewer.scene.pick(hoverPosition);
-      const id = picking?.resolvePickId
-        ? picking.resolvePickId(picked)
-        : picked?.id;
-      hit = ownsPick(id);
+      const picked = state.viewer.scene.pick(position);
+      hit = ownsPick(
+        picking?.resolvePickId ? picking.resolvePickId(picked) : picked?.id,
+      );
     } catch {
       hit = false;
     }
     setHoverCursor(canvas, hit);
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Pointer cursor over anything this layer owns. Throttled; a move inside
-   * the interval is picked when it ends, so the cursor never sticks.
-   */
+  /** Pointer cursor over anything this layer owns, picked at most once a frame. */
   function onMove(movement) {
-    const viewer = state.viewer;
-    if (!viewer || !state.enabled) return;
-    hoverPosition = movement.endPosition;
-    queueHoverPick();
-  }
-
-  /** Pick `hoverPosition` on a coming frame, within the throttle. */
-  function queueHoverPick() {
-    if (hoverQueued) return;
-    hoverQueued = true;
-    const wait = hoverLastPickAt + HOVER_PICK_INTERVAL_MS - Date.now();
-    if (wait <= 0) {
-      requestAnimationFrame(pickHover);
-      return;
-    }
-    hoverTimer = setTimeout(() => {
-      hoverTimer = null;
-      requestAnimationFrame(pickHover);
-    }, wait);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Track held buttons (a drag picks nothing) and re-pick when the camera
-   * rests. Hover keeps running while it moves: a tracking camera never stops.
-   */
-  function watchHover(viewer) {
-    const canvas = viewer.scene.canvas;
-    const camera = viewer.camera;
-    const onButtons = (event) => {
-      pointerButtons = event.buttons ?? 0;
-    };
-    for (const type of ['pointerdown', 'pointermove', 'pointerup'])
-      canvas.addEventListener?.(type, onButtons);
-    const removeEnd = camera?.moveEnd?.addEventListener(() => {
-      if (hoverPosition) queueHoverPick();
-    });
-    removeHoverWatchers = () => {
-      for (const type of ['pointerdown', 'pointermove', 'pointerup'])
-        canvas.removeEventListener?.(type, onButtons);
-      removeEnd?.();
-    };
-  }
-
-  function unwatchHover() {
-    removeHoverWatchers?.();
-    removeHoverWatchers = null;
-    clearTimeout(hoverTimer);
-    hoverTimer = null;
-    hoverQueued = false;
-    hoverPosition = null;
-    hoverLastPickAt = -Infinity;
-    pointerButtons = 0;
+    if (!state.enabled || dragging) return;
+    if (!hoverPosition) requestAnimationFrame(pickHover);
+    hoverPosition = Cesium.Cartesian2.clone(movement.endPosition);
   }
 
   function install(viewer) {
@@ -167,7 +100,12 @@ export function createSelection({ state, parts }) {
       onMove,
       Cesium.ScreenSpaceEventType.MOUSE_MOVE,
     );
-    watchHover(viewer);
+    state.clickHandler.setInputAction(() => {
+      dragging = true;
+    }, Cesium.ScreenSpaceEventType.LEFT_DOWN);
+    state.clickHandler.setInputAction(() => {
+      dragging = false;
+    }, Cesium.ScreenSpaceEventType.LEFT_UP);
     document.addEventListener('keydown', onKeyDown);
     picking?.registerPickOwner?.(STREET_LEVEL_LAYER_ID, ownsPick);
   }
@@ -175,7 +113,8 @@ export function createSelection({ state, parts }) {
   function uninstall() {
     // Nothing to undo for a layer that was never enabled.
     if (!state.clickHandler) return;
-    unwatchHover();
+    hoverPosition = null;
+    dragging = false;
     if (hoverCursor && state.viewer?.scene?.canvas) {
       state.viewer.scene.canvas.style.cursor = '';
       hoverCursor = false;
diff --git a/src/layers/streetLevel/selection.test.mjs b/src/layers/streetLevel/selection.test.mjs
index 724efc713..7eaedf4f5 100644
--- a/src/layers/streetLevel/selection.test.mjs
+++ b/src/layers/streetLevel/selection.test.mjs
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
-import test, { mock } from 'node:test';
+import test from 'node:test';
 import * as Cesium from 'cesium';
 import { createSelection } from './selection.js';
 
 /**
  * The selection installed on a stand-in viewer. Animation frames queue until
- * `frame()` runs them; timers and Date.now() are mocked so a burst of moves
- * has a known timeline.
+ * `frame()` runs them.
  */
 function harness({ selected = false } = {}) {
   const saved = {
     document: globalThis.document,
     requestAnimationFrame: globalThis.requestAnimationFrame,
   };
-  mock.timers.enable({ apis: ['setTimeout', 'Date'] });
   const frames = [];
   globalThis.requestAnimationFrame = (task) => frames.push(task);
   globalThis.document = new EventTarget();
@@ -43,7 +41,6 @@ function harness({ selected = false } = {}) {
     disableRootEvents: true,
     onwheel: null,
   });
-  const camera = { moveStart: new Cesium.Event(), moveEnd: new Cesium.Event() };
   const viewer = {
     scene: {
       canvas,
@@ -52,8 +49,6 @@ function harness({ selected = false } = {}) {
         return scene.under && { id: scene.under };
       },
     },
-    camera,
-    isDestroyed: () => false,
   };
   const state = {
     viewer,
@@ -79,9 +74,9 @@ function harness({ selected = false } = {}) {
     },
   });
   selection.install(viewer);
-  const onMove = state.clickHandler.getInputAction(
-    Cesium.ScreenSpaceEventType.MOUSE_MOVE,
-  );
+  const action = (type) =>
+    state.clickHandler.getInputAction(Cesium.ScreenSpaceEventType[type]);
+  const onMove = action('MOUSE_MOVE');
   return {
     state,
     sequences,
@@ -100,110 +95,55 @@ function harness({ selected = false } = {}) {
     },
     scene,
     canvas,
-    camera,
     picks,
     move: (x) => onMove({ endPosition: { x, y: 10 } }),
+    down: () => action('LEFT_DOWN')(),
+    up: () => action('LEFT_UP')(),
     frame() {
       for (const task of frames.splice(0)) task();
     },
-    /** Let `ms` pass, running the frames that come due on the way. */
-    wait(ms) {
-      this.frame();
-      mock.timers.tick(ms);
-      this.frame();
-    },
-    buttons(type, buttons) {
-      const event = new Event(type);
-      Object.defineProperty(event, 'buttons', { value: buttons });
-      canvas.dispatchEvent(event);
-    },
     restore() {
       selection.uninstall();
-      mock.timers.reset();
       Object.assign(globalThis, saved);
     },
   };
 }
 
-test('hover picks at most every 120 ms through a burst of moves, ending on the last one', () => {
-  const h = harness();
-  try {
-    // One second of a pointer moving at 60 Hz.
-    for (let i = 0; i < 60; i++) {
-      h.move(i);
-      h.wait(16);
-    }
-    assert.ok(h.picks.length <= 9, `${h.picks.length} picks in ~1 s`);
-    assert.ok(h.picks.length >= 7, `${h.picks.length} picks in ~1 s`);
-    h.wait(200);
-    assert.deepEqual(h.picks.at(-1), { x: 59, y: 10 }, 'the resting position');
-    const settled = h.picks.length;
-    h.wait(1000);
-    assert.equal(h.picks.length, settled, 'a still pointer costs nothing');
-  } finally {
-    h.restore();
-  }
-});
-
-test('hover does not pick while a mouse button is held', () => {
-  const h = harness();
-  try {
-    h.buttons('pointerdown', 1);
-    h.move(1);
-    h.wait(200);
-    assert.equal(h.picks.length, 0, 'a drag in progress');
-    h.buttons('pointerup', 0);
-    h.move(2);
-    h.wait(200);
-    assert.equal(h.picks.length, 1);
-  } finally {
-    h.restore();
-  }
-});
-
-test('a camera that never stops (orbit, tracking) keeps hover throttled, not off', () => {
-  const h = harness();
-  try {
-    // An orbiting or tracking camera raises moveStart and never moveEnd.
-    h.camera.moveStart.raiseEvent();
-    for (let i = 0; i < 60; i++) {
-      h.move(i);
-      h.wait(16);
-    }
-    assert.ok(h.picks.length >= 7, `${h.picks.length} picks in ~1 s`);
-    assert.ok(h.picks.length <= 9, `${h.picks.length} picks in ~1 s`);
-  } finally {
-    h.restore();
-  }
-});
-
-test('when the camera stops, the pointer is picked again so the cursor cannot stick', () => {
+test('hover picks once a frame, at the latest position, and shows a pointer over a line', () => {
   const h = harness();
   try {
     h.scene.under = 'mly:seq:1';
-    h.move(5);
-    h.wait(200);
-    assert.equal(h.canvas.style.cursor, 'pointer', 'over a line');
-    // The camera moves the line out from under a still pointer.
-    h.camera.moveStart.raiseEvent();
+    for (let x = 0; x < 5; x++) h.move(x);
+    h.frame();
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      h.picks.map(({ x }) => x),
+      [4],
+      'one pick for the burst',
+    );
+    assert.equal(h.canvas.style.cursor, 'pointer');
     h.scene.under = null;
-    h.camera.moveEnd.raiseEvent();
-    h.wait(200);
-    assert.equal(h.picks.length, 2, 'one pick when the camera rests');
-    assert.deepEqual(h.picks.at(-1), { x: 5, y: 10 });
-    assert.equal(h.canvas.style.cursor, '', 'the pointer cursor is gone');
+    h.move(6);
+    h.frame();
+    assert.equal(h.canvas.style.cursor, '', 'off the line');
+    h.frame();
+    assert.equal(h.picks.length, 2, 'a still pointer costs nothing');
   } finally {
     h.restore();
   }
 });
 
-test('a hover frame queued before the layer went off does not pick', () => {
+test('a drag, or a layer gone off before the frame, picks nothing', () => {
   const h = harness();
   try {
+    h.down();
     h.move(1);
+    h.frame();
+    assert.equal(h.picks.length, 0, 'a drag in progress');
+    h.up();
+    h.move(2);
     h.state.enabled = false;
-    h.wait(200);
-    assert.equal(h.picks.length, 0);
+    h.frame();
+    assert.equal(h.picks.length, 0, 'the layer went off');
   } finally {
     h.restore();
   }