A virtual aid (AIS message 21's VirtualAtoN flag) is a mark broadcast
where nothing physical stands, so drawing it as a buoy showed a mark
that is not there. The vessel source record now carries `virtual`
(false unless a source says true; any source may set it), AISStream
sets it from VirtualAtoN, and the vessel layer keeps such an aid's
disc: vesselModelSpec returns null for it and the layer gathers no
model item for it. Its card, selected card and readout add VIRTUAL
after its kind.
A buoy's card, selected card and HUD readout showed "0.0KT · 135°" from
whatever its source reported. A fixed mark has neither, so they now show
its kind alone, whole ("CARDINAL MARK N", which the 14-character type cut
read as "CARDINAL MARK "), in the bone white of its disc.
isAidToNavigation now knows every kind an aid report names ("Light, with
sectors", "Fixed structure off shore" had no aid word), leaves out a
"Buoy Layer" as it does a tender, and matches each type text once: the
vessel layer asks per vessel on its rotation pass, which now skips the
aid discs it never turns.
Aid rows no longer cost ships their place: aisStreamRows lists every
vessel ahead of every aid, so the layer's 12,000-row request never drops
a ship for a buoy, and vessels_in_area (and the brief built on it)
counts ships only. An aid's name runs on into its NameExtension.
A buoy, beacon, RACON, light or IALA mark in the vessel feed was drawn
as a ship. A vessel record whose type names one, or whose MMSI is an
aid-to-navigation station's (99MIDxxxx), is now isAidToNavigation and
vesselModelSpec draws it as the fleet set's buoy of its mark (cardinal
N/E/S/W, port or starboard hand, safe water, isolated danger, special
mark; a red can when the type names no mark), at its built size and
flagged fixed so its model does not turn to a heading. Its icon is a
disc instead of a chevron.
AISStream now subscribes to AidsToNavigationReport by default, and the
server names each report's aid type code (0 to 31) as its kind instead
of reading it as a ship type.
Sameh Khamis