From 550 to 1,000 km of range the camera's -5° limit lies past the place's own horizon. The swing ran into its 150 m clearance, let go of the pivot and tilted the rest in place, which lifted the crosshair onto the sky (28 to 63 km up from 600 to 900 km), and a return to top-down then landed hundreds of km from the place.
The swing now hands over to an in-place tilt only where the clearance is what stops it (within about 17 km). Farther out it stops with the camera 0.5° above the place's horizon, still pivoting: a tilt to an angle reports the angle it reached with a note, a continuous tilt stops there, and a further tilt up is refused as at the limit. Tests check that the crosshair stays on the place, frame by frame for a continuous tilt, and that top-down returns over it.
With main merged, the Overpass prompt measured 55,549 against the 55,500 ceiling. The pitchDeg and direction descriptions now read 'Absolute; -89 top-down.' and 'Needed for pan/rotate/tilt steps', bringing it to 55,497. The schema pin and the measured-size note follow.
Riding an aircraft now adopts its layer the way a direct selection does, and
Contacts gives up a dependency the user adopts, so ending Contacts mid-session
(one of its layers off, or Contacts itself) no longer turns off the ridden
layer and ends the Cockpit. When Contacts goes off, Live Signals drops the
rows built from its snapshot instead of leaving stale distances marked
CURRENT, and the feed-off warning is no longer duplicated.
Recent community wildlife observations, as a new Wildlife group in the
layer panel.
- Server: keyless iNaturalist proxy (v2 observations with only the
projected fields; undocumented v1 UTFGrid density tiles, decoded on the
server) sharing one paced queue (burst 4, ~1/s, 60/min, 8,000/day budget,
up to four in flight), in-memory caches and upstream-only cooldowns;
Acartia Salish Sea marine-mammal feed rounded to 0.01 degrees with
comments dropped.
- Layer: grid counts drawn as a soft view-ranked density glow; real sampled
sightings as taxon badges at their true positions with ambient photo
thumbnails and labels; obscured records stay privacy cells; a clicked
sighting stays pinned through camera moves and refreshes.
- Anchored photo card per selection with the single iNaturalist link;
attribution in the layer row and the Data attribution popover.
- Filters (CONFIRMED, taxa presets) round-trip in share links with token 9.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Name each Rio feed in its credit instead of repeating the licence, drop the
deprecation history from the bus note, list Rio among the feeds with a
route-name table, and shorten the route-table header and test comments.
The Transit prompt said "Fly below 3,000 km", but the closed gate opens at
2,850 km; it now names the enter threshold, as Bike Share does. When the
camera changes coverage, Transit and Bike Share ask the Layers panel to
repaint instead of leaving the old prompt up until the next 15 s / 60 s tick.
The callout now asks for the opacity its own card paints with this frame,
keyhole fade included, and fades out as the card fades in. A card faded out
at the keyhole rim leaves the callout readable, and a card fading out after
leaving its source still hides it. The vessel card id is cached on the
record, and the allocation gate covers the lookup.
foldPlaceName drops a leading "the", so "The Hague" over upstate New
York accepted Hague, NY as an exact nearby match. Split the script-aware
fold into foldPlaceText and use it for keyless toponyms; foldPlaceName
keeps its behaviour for the packs and street matchers.
Also: changelog fragment credits #1585, folding test pins the Latin
letters NFD does not decompose (ß, ø, ł), and CURRENT-STATE notes that
non-Latin names match only when spelled with their marks.
Both SMTR feeds now publish Position.speed in m/s. Compared with how far
vehicles moved between reports on 2026-11-05, the published values ran
3.1x (buses) and 3.6x (BRT) below the observed speed, so the km/h
conversion divided real speeds by 3.6. Drop speedUnit and the conversion.
A Director hold longer than the settle check's five-minute bound used
to expire the deferred check, so a run that ended on a stars-only shot
after a long hold stayed there until the next move. While a flight or a
playing scene defers the check, its bound no longer counts down; the
flight or scene bounds the deferral itself.
Also correct the trackball note in CURRENT-STATE: Cesium's tilt tests
the screen centre, so any tilt (drag or touch) with the centre on the
stars between 1,000 and 7,500 km now tilts about the planet's edge or
does nothing, wherever it starts. Rotation drags that start on the
planet are unchanged.
Writing a fractional alpha onto the overlay record for every paint item
boxed a heap number per item per frame. The allocation gate caught it:
the generic 60-entry workload went from 2,838 to 12,614 B/frame. The
record now keeps only the frame stamp and a pointer to its paint item,
and isOverlayEntryQueued multiplies the alphas when it is asked. The
gate is back to main's numbers on Node 24.
A check skipped because a flight or a playing Director scene was in
progress used to be dropped, so a run that ended or held on a stars-only
shot stayed there until the next camera move. Keep watching instead:
the settle check retries once the flight or scene ends, within its
existing five-minute bound, and a moveEnd that arrives while it is
deferred keeps the check armed rather than stopping it.
Also test that the free-look limit never raises Cesium's trackball
height and that dispose keeps a value set after install, note in its
JSDoc the enableLook case it cannot tell apart, and document the
trackball change and the retry in CURRENT-STATE and the changelog.
With Vessels and Detection on, a vessel with an ambient card on the map
also got its detection callout next to the bracket. The callout lane
paints beneath the cards, so its text showed through the card's plate
and covered the speed and course.
The callout now gives way only to a card the shared overlay actually
paints in the same frame. The overlay paints part of the published
cards (shared budget, collisions, UI chrome), so a vessel whose card
was dropped keeps its callout.
The detection lane paints before the cards publish their paint rects,
so getOverlayPaintRect has nothing for the current frame there. The new
isOverlayEntryQueued answers from the paint queue that the overlay
solves before painting. Vessel detection objects name their card in
cardSourceId/cardEntryId.
Over a city with no feed or system (London, Tokyo) both rows read
"ON · — · never", the same as a feed that never answered. Transit already
computed a coverage note but put it only in `coverage`, which the row does
not show; Bike Share reported nothing at all.
Both layers now report a `zoom-in` guidance status with a `statusMessage`:
"Fly below 3,000 km to a covered region" / "No feed here yet · N regions
available" for Transit, and "Fly below 48 km to a covered city" / "No bike
share here yet · N systems available" for Bike Share. A loading or failed
Bike Share city keeps its own text. Leaving coverage clears the layer's
last-update time, so the row no longer dates data it no longer draws.
The coverage-note translations move from the voice card into
`translateStatusMessage` (ui/statusText.js), which the Layers row and the
voice card now share.
The launches layer swallowed every fetch error in its update, so the
manager treated a 429 or timeout on /api/launches as a successful start.
Context then committed the isolating mode with no missions: the other
layers stayed off, unrelated enables were refused, the camera stayed at
the full-globe view and the roster kept reading "loading".
Until the first index loads, the update now reports the failure. The
manager fails the enable closed and both entry routes roll back to the
pre-entry layers. The camera pose captured at entry is restored when the
mode is left before any index loaded, and the roster shows a failed
state instead of loading. A valid empty index still enters, and a
refresh failure after a loaded index keeps its records.
Below Cesium's trackball height (7,500 km by default) a drag that starts
on the stars turns the camera in place, whatever enableLook says, which
was the drag path to a view with no planet in it. Lower that height to
the free-look height with the free-look limit, never raising it, and
restore it on dispose. Above 1,000 km such a drag now orbits the globe,
as it already did above 7,500 km, at a similar rate, and a tilt drag
from the stars there tilts about the planet's edge or does nothing
instead of turning the camera. Drags that start on the planet are
unchanged.
At the ~20 px the fleet renders at, the bus, tram, metro and unknown
glyphs were near-symmetric boxes: rotated along the course, nothing showed
which end was the front. Each now has a front built into its outline (an
arrow-like nose for the bus, a pointed cab for the tram, a chamfered cab
for the metro), so it survives the tint, the halo and the sensor profiles,
which keep only the outline.
A vehicle with no known course sits at rotation 0, where a pointed glyph
would claim it is heading north. Those vehicles, fleet and selected alike,
now get a symmetric outline (rail and ferry included) and switch to the
pointed one once a course arrives. The raster cache doubles to a fixed 72
variants.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Review follow-ups for the globe-in-view recovery and voice limits.
- Leave a camera flight in progress and a playing Director scene, holds
included, to their own framing. The recovery is now installed with the
scene tools, which own the Director, and reads its running state.
- Reuse a voice turn's half-degree proof only from the position and
direction it was proven at, so a release that moves the camera checks
the turn again.
- Share one free-globe-camera check between the recovery, the voice
turn limit and the globe rotation.
- Keep an enableLook setting other code makes after the free-look limit
is installed, instead of writing back the install-time value.
- Name the nudging test for what it asserts, the 1% floor, and document
that a view losing its surface without a camera move waits for the
next one.
- A tilt's angle, limits and "unchanged" check use the camera's own
pitch. At regional range the pivot pitch is up to about 8 degrees
shallower, so "tilt to 5 degrees" from 900 km ended at -12.9 degrees.
The swing now solves for the pivot pitch that gives the camera angle.
- A zoom out during a pivoting tilt stops at the 1,000 km pivot limit
instead of the orbit's 5,000 km, and a zoom in that reaches the
clearance is applied before the pivot ends.
- An angle the camera already holds still takes navigation, so it stops
a running motion and releases the follow camera.
- A motion queued behind a fly-to moves to a newer fly-to as soon as it
begins, so a stalled lookup no longer holds it past a flight that
landed. Wait listeners are removed when a wait ends, and a lookup that
found nothing points straight at the flight that moved.
- A fly-to that stops a running motion names it (stoppedMotion).
- A tilt left or right is refused, and the pitchDeg description says
steps use direction.
Sameh Khamis