Wildlife Sightings (#1591) published share token 9, so News takes the
next free token, 00. The token tests read the ledger before both where
they were written against it, and the README counts both layers.
Main's wildlife-sightings layer took share-link token 9, so shipwrecks
takes the next free token, 00. Locale, docs, format-scope and voice
manifest conflicts keep both sides. Ledger and registry tests now model
the ledger before shipwrecks took 00, and layer counts include both
new layers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A failed flow tile now carries the server's reason. A hosted deployment that limits each account answers USAGE_LIMIT_REACHED or RATE_LIMITED, which the traffic panel labels as the monthly allowance or a rate limit; a 503 with another reason reads as the traffic service being unavailable, not a missing key. The local proxy's no_key and daily budget labels are unchanged.
The card's "Acartia" link was built from the contributor-supplied
photo_url, so any https site could appear labelled as Acartia. Acartia
has no documented per-sighting page, so the source link is now always
the Acartia site, on the server projection and again in the card.
The separate "Open on Acartia" fallback link is no longer needed.
Local reads the area at the view centre (`/outline?at=`) and asks the feed
for its reports (`at`): the area is outlined faintly on the globe and named
at the top of the section ("News from Kazakhstan"; within 500 km at sea).
A disputed area is named as itself. A read that a newer look replaced, or
one left behind by a switch to Conflicts, is dropped, and a server without
the area route is asked once.
A section read from a key the server lacks says which key it needs
(503 `no_key`), that the key was refused (`key_rejected`) or that its
daily allowance is spent (`key_quota`); the other section keeps reading.
Liveuamap and World News API join the key registry.
Cards name the service a report came through ("via GDELT Project"), and
Liveuamap and Natural Earth are credited once their data shows. Economy is
a category of its own. Disputed-area labels are smaller and show the name
only; outlines keep up to 300 parts.
Conflicts is the hotspots' significant news, on the map whenever the layer is
on. Local lists every report within 500 km of the view centre below 3,000 km,
and the map shows those instead while it is chosen. The section replaces the
"Include minor news" and "Show event cards" toggles: picture cards are always
on, and Local is what reads minor news. The Conflicts feed reads the same
whichever section is shown.
The panel's window label becomes a choice of the server's window and each
shorter one. The feed and map filter to it locally; the hotspot counts are
read again for it (/api/news/hotspots?hours=N, now on the allowlist). A
server names the longest window it serves as maxWindowHours.
A host may serve fewer hours than the day. The hotspots answer may name its window
(`windowHours`, a whole number from 1 to 24); the layer keeps reports, the
feed, In view and the chosen event inside it, and the panel says
"Last 12 h" or "Last 24 h" accordingly. Without a window named, or with one
out of range, the layer keeps the full day as before.
Events ▸ News draws the last 24 hours of reports from curated hotspots
(Ukraine–Russia, Israel–Gaza–Lebanon, Iran–Hormuz, Yemen–Red Sea, Sudan,
Sahel) and developing situations elsewhere, from any server that answers the
`/api/news` read routes.
- Globe: one marker per merged event, clamped to the ground and culled at the
horizon; one beacon per hotspot when zoomed out and a pulsing beacon for a
developing situation; hotspot outlines with disputed areas dotted and
labelled by who administers and who claims them; picture cards for at most
ten major or fast-growing events with two or more sources, never
overlapping, switchable off.
- Panel: hotspot chips, a severity filter (significant and above by default),
categories, minor news off by default, and a scrolling list of event cards
with picture, headline, place, sources, age and the sides that reported it.
"In view" lists what is near the map below 3,000 km once the camera
settles. A card flies the globe to its event and opens it with a link to
the publisher. Reduced motion stops the pulse and the flights.
- Core serves no news itself: the local server proxies GEV_NEWS_ORIGIN when it
is set, and answers 503 unavailable otherwise, so the layer reads "not
configured" once instead of retrying.
- Share token 9 (enabled-only); voice stays off for this layer.
The pure half of a news layer: validated records for a news server's
`/api/news/hotspots|feed|outline` contract, a presentation model and canvas
markers and picture cards, and a fetch client.
- Colour carries severity only (0 no physical event, 1 minor, 2 significant,
3 major), never a side; the category is the icon, the rim is attestation
(confirmed, a claim, one side's own press), size grows with sources and
markers fade with age.
- Cards say "Reported by {side} sources" and mark official channels; a
machine-read English headline is labelled as such.
- `createNewsSource` reads same-origin routes with a 15 s timeout, a 4 MiB cap
and record-by-record validation; `NEWS_API_PATHS` and `newsQueryAllowed`
let a host proxy exactly what the client sends. A 503 marked unavailable
means "not configured": no retries.
- Exported as `./layers/news/source`, with its own package boundary.
Regional News showed "REGIONAL NEWS UNAVAILABLE" above populated rows and a
static "RECENT" footer over months-old articles. The status banner kept
`display: grid` when hidden, every non-empty answer carried the unavailable
text, and nothing limited or sorted articles by age.
- One window (regionalNewsWindow.js, 24 h): the local proxy asks Google News
with `when:1d` and GDELT for 24 h, drops undated, older or future-dated
articles, sorts newest first, and reports newsWindowHours/newsFetchedAt.
- The Cockpit labels four states: fresh (banner hidden, "LAST 24 H"),
kept after a failed refresh ("CACHED · REFRESH FAILED"), no news in the
window, and unavailable. The footer lives in the news state, so it
survives page and tab changes, and the client drops out-of-window rows.
- `.cockpit-brief-status[hidden]` now hides the banner.
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]>
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.
- Replace the four era chips with the start and end year pickers the
air-accidents layer uses (the same RowRange control, ported as is);
the era colours stay as a legend under the row.
- Rasterize the boat marker at 144 px so large markers stay sharp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A new Events layer maps shipwrecks with a card per wreck:
- EMODnet Human Activities heritage shipwrecks (about 6,500 in European
waters, CC BY 4.0), skipping rows taken from wrecksite.eu.
- Wikidata shipwrecks with a Wikipedia article plus sinking events
(CC0); an event folds into its ship for the date and death toll.
- A same-origin /api/shipwrecks proxy refreshes once a day and serves
the last snapshot as stale for up to a week.
Markers are a boat icon coloured by era and sized by deaths; four era
chips filter the layer. The card follows the air-accidents layout
(deaths first). Text that names people is dropped; victims appear as
a count only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Cockpit entry no longer needs Contacts or both flight feeds: a civilian
aircraft needs Live Flights, a military one Military Flights. Contacts and
every other layer can be turned on or off before or during a session, and
turning off the ridden layer ends it. A Context mode change in flight still
blocks entry.
When the other air feed is off, Live Signals and the Contact card say
FLIGHTS FEED OFF or MILITARY FEED OFF · PARTIAL PICTURE instead of
presenting a partial picture as complete. Voice refuses entry with
subject-layer-off rather than contacts-inactive, and its tool description
says Contacts is not required.
Double-clicking the followed aircraft enters Cockpit through the same gate.
The Cockpit takes the scene's double-click before Cesium's stock handler,
which would otherwise untrack a followed aircraft whose model is a
primitive. The entry also shows under the Intel HUD readout, sharing the
Contacts button's face. A test keeps the classes the Cockpit adds to the
body from matching another element's rule.
The quick commands "Reset to globe view" and "Show earthquakes" reached t()
through a .map(), so the catalog check never saw them and every language
showed them in English. They are now marked with msg() and translated.
Review of the 71 strings from #1507 in all eleven languages:
- zh-Hant is regenerated from zh-CN with OpenCC s2tw, as its guide says;
40 entries had Taiwan vocabulary instead.
- ar "Dock to the right" names the left side, where RTL puts that rail.
- ja "What am I looking at?" no longer asks what the assistant sees.
- Provider Settings, dock, provider, live and map use each glossary's terms.
- de drops the du-form; ja drops spaces between Japanese and Latin text.
- Calques, register and the example commands read naturally.
The attach menu promised up to 10 KB per file, but the attachments share
one 10 KB budget, so two 6 KB files were refused. The hint now says the
limit covers them all, in every locale.
A reply stopped partway through a round now keeps the actions that ran,
answering the calls it never reached as skipped, so the history stays
paired for both providers. A failed typed turn no longer resets the
pointer, referents and follow-up memory, since its conversation continues.
The server now tells a rejected key (401, or Gemini's 400 with reason
API_KEY_INVALID, matched exactly), denied access (403) and an account out
of credit (OpenAI's 429 insufficient_quota) apart; each cools down for a
minute and gets its own message in the chat.
The far-zoom heatmap now uses the ½× grid (4096 × 2048, ≈10 km per
pixel, one-pixel blur), so a lone fire's spot matches its marker at the
3,000 km hand-off. The spot size slider and its share option are gone.
Markers and heatmap are both kept built at every zoom and cross-fade by
camera height between 2,400 and 3,600 km on every frame, so a fast zoom
never shows a beat with neither. The heatmap fades by imagery alpha:
hiding a Cesium imagery layer unmaps it from the globe tiles, and showing
it again re-mapped them late, which was the gap at the band edge. Under
the markers the heatmap is built 150 ms after the data or filter changes.
Typed chat sessions no longer end on the voice inactivity timeout, and a
failed or stopped reply keeps the conversation: Stop cancels only the
reply in progress, and map actions that already ran stay in the model's
context. Each upstream request and map action gets its own deadline, old
tool results shrink instead of the history overflowing, and step limits,
a missing or rejected key, the OAuth lock and throttling each get their
own message.
- Server: OpenAI chat is off under GEV_PREFER_CODEX_OAUTH; chat throttles
default to the provider's throttle; replies carry API_KEY_MISSING,
API_KEY_REJECTED, CODEX_OAUTH_REQUIRED and RATE_LIMITED codes; upstream
Retry-After passes through, and a rejected key (Gemini's invalid-key 400
included) cools down for a minute
- Pinokio forwards the chat throttle settings
- UI: the reply reveal publishes only the message list; the border orbit
runs only while busy; layers attach with a button or Enter; the log is
aria-busy while a reply types out; auto-scroll respects a reader who
scrolled up; Escape closes the attach menu; the chat gear says Settings;
a note says chat bills the OpenAI key when voice uses ChatGPT sign-in
- Layout does less work while panel height animates; unused blurs removed
- Gemini voice start ends chat; the voice preview clears on every new
session
- Tests for the route gates, client limits, attachments and the fixes
Review fixes for #1506.
- Ottawa: use the documented camera list and the city's Traffic Camera
Images API. The pack is skipped with no request unless
OTTAWA_CAMERA_CERTIFICATE is set; the certificate is added only at
fetch time inside the pinned /opendata/ path, and each camera is
fetched at most once a minute through the shared frame cache.
- Québec 511 video is opt-in (CCTV_QUEBEC_VIDEO_ENABLED=1) and loads
only after the viewer presses Play; selection, auto-hop, scenes and
voice no longer contact Québec 511. Credit splits locations (MTQ,
CC BY 4.0) from video (Québec 511). Interrupted play() is no longer
reported as an unavailable source; the per-frame listener runs only
while a Québec camera is selected and the canvas rect is cached.
- Catalog cap: reserved Québec and World slots come only from capacity
above the 4,000 shared slots, so a lower CCTV_MAX_SOURCES thins every
pack instead of starving the existing ones. dev-fresh and
.env.example default to 7,516.
- Throttled frames (World, Ottawa): inside the refresh floor with no
cached frame the proxy serves the placeholder, never Street View; a
failed fetch backs off for a minute; the cache is bounded by bytes.
- MJPEG first-frame extraction runs only for sources registered as
MJPEG (Taiwan Highway Bureau), caps a frame at 2 MB, reads in linear
time, accepts a CRLF preamble and a boundary that already starts with
"--", and ends a part without Content-Length at the next delimiter.
THB hosts are registered in the redirect pin list.
- Tests: World loader policy, Québec loader and opt-in, proxy cooldown
without Street View, Ottawa signing, cap reservations at 7,516, 4,000
and 48, overlay Play gate, refresh, visibility and teardown. Guard
tests check the 4,000 shared slots again.
- Remove the unused standalone Québec preview module and public page.
- Docs: DATA_SOURCES, SECURITY, CURRENT-STATE, CCTV_INTEGRATION, README,
.env.example, changelog fragment renamed to its full scope.
P1: on a phone the Street Level panel sits in the Cameras tab sheet, so the
action and sl= links opened photos nobody could see and still reported
success. A photo that opens, and a link that arms, now open that sheet
(revealPanel). In cockpit, clean view, recording or scene playback the action
stops at a new `view` stage before anything switches or loads.
P2s:
- Mapillary's nearest search asks for 100 photos, the API's most. It cuts
the radius's photos at the limit in no particular order, so 8 left the
distance sort and the imagery filter a few arbitrary photos.
- The MCP globe panel opens a billed photo only for a result issued in the
last five minutes (show_in_gods_eye_view stamps issued_at); a host that
mounts the panel again hands back the old result, which only arms.
- OPEN uses an armed link's point only while the view centre is within 1 km
of it; a user who moved on opens what the view shows.
- show_in_gods_eye_view measures a camera's altitude from the terrain under
it before taking its look-at point, so high cities no longer put the
photos kilometres too far ahead.
- The armed-link toast is translated, and the new view-stage message too,
in all 11 catalogs.
- Tests: a turn superseded during the geocode, flight or map switch changes
nothing; an unknown key state lets a cold sl= link through; a wide tilted
area still opens photos at its centre.
Keeps main's locale catalogs and re-adds this PR's eight Street Level strings; re-pins the Realtime payload digests for main's two new overlay layers, where the unchanged tools match main's pin, so show_street_level is still the whole difference.
The two Update-branch merges resolved the locale conflicts by keeping
this branch's side, which dropped nine strings main had added (Utilities
panel, drawing colours, cockpit exit). Rebuild each catalog as main's copy
plus Sea Marks and Ski Pistes, and re-pin the voice tool schema length and
digests on top of main's Utilities target.
show_street_level (voice and typed) flies to a place and opens its nearest
street-level photo from Google Street View, Mapillary, KartaView or
Panoramax; Street View switches to Google 3D first. The view model gains a
street_level field, share links carry sl=<source>,<lat>,<lon>, and
show_in_gods_eye_view can open a photo. A plain sl=google link only arms the
point and waits for OPEN, so it never bills a key without a click.
Embed pages show an open photo in an overlay that Esc closes. On-screen
strings are translated into es, ru, zh-CN and zh-Hant. Covered by unit tests
and three new steps in the Street Level browser suite.
From review:
- Card lines the actions write in English (area basis, part counts, merged
duplicates, OSM caveats, the imagery window) are shown in the UI
language through the analyst card's note path; the model still gets the
English. One OSM place reads "1 hospital".
- Same-named clarification choices show their region code (WA, DC).
- OSM Places shows as unavailable once the server says no Overpass is
configured, and its points are depth-tested past 2.5 km so they never
show through the globe.
- find_imagery puts the operator's sources and mode back when a box is
refused, and a voice search cancelled mid-flight leaves "Search
cancelled" instead of an empty strip.
- The README lists OSM Places with the other Utilities.
Picks up the Radio Next/Previous fix (#1474) and the Codespaces docs
(#1515). The one conflict is the Radio cycle assertion in
gevActions.test.mjs: main's new fallback flag is kept in this branch's
layout.
Denis Groshev