Panoramax, the open federated street-level commons, registers beside
Mapillary, Google Street View and KartaView. Its meta-catalogue
(api.panoramax.xyz) is keyless and CORS-open, so it runs in the browser:
- coverage from its vector tiles: sequence lines at z11–14 below 30 km
(longest first under the per-tile cap), and above that the grid layer's
density cells as binned points, not counted as sequences;
- a click on a line opens that sequence's picture nearest the click
(STAC search, any direction), without moving the camera, then any
sequence's if it has none within 50 m; the 360° and since filters go to
the lines and to the API;
- cones from the z15 tiles' pictures layer around the open picture
(~110 bytes a picture, against ~7.5 kB for a STAC item), re-centred when
a picture opens outside them; ‹ › follow the picture's prev/next links;
- the caption names the author (not an account named by an email
address) and the picture's licence (StreetPose `license`), and links to
the picture in the Panoramax viewer; the globe credits Panoramax.
KartaView's viewer becomes the shared photoViewer.js (flat <img>, 360° on
panorama.js, ‹ ›, keyboard, pinch, context loss), driven by a per-provider
PhotoSources table; the request limiter moves to limiter.js. Panoramax shows
the 2,048 px SD derivative and fetches the HD original only when the viewer
is wide enough, once, shrunk while it decodes (never above 8,192 px).
Orange #ff6f00 (Panoramax's own), off by default, share option
0.m.0_0.r.panoramax-1. The MCP panel allows the meta-catalogue and the
biggest instances. Tests: policy, decode, source, viewer, provider, and a
Panoramax fixture in the hermetic browser gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
From the second IC8 pass (launch ready; P3s closed here):
- A lost WebGL context is redrawn on a new canvas (the old one only gives
back its lost context), through the core, and only if no newer photo is
opening; verified live with WEBGL_lose_context, twice.
- The 16 MB answer cap counts bytes while reading: KartaView sends
chunked answers with no Content-Length, so the header check never fired.
- A lookup gets 8 s, then 15 s once more: KartaView sometimes sits on a
lookup for 11 s and answers the same one in 3 s.
Left as follow-ups: cancelling abandoned sequence pages; finding a page
by binary search on the index when thousands of photos are missing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A mutation review (91, then 130 mutants) found tests that could not fail
(quick presses with synchronous fakes, a no-flight check with a provider
that never posed), and untested paths. New and rewritten tests kill 123 of
130 mutants; the 7 survivors are equivalent or harmless redraws.
- viewer: held-back loads for quick presses, stale sharp/flat loads,
close mid-load, ends checks for an older photo, WebGL retried per mount,
focus handed back, look direction kept on ›.
- provider: id-ordered pages with out-of-order indexes, page and probe
failures retried, overtaken lookups, cones re-centred on ‹ ›, leftover
imagery filters hide no line or cone, coverage hints, tile cache.
- source: 429 backoff and Retry-After under mock timers, hang timeouts,
the nearest query's parameters. policy: storage-host injection, FOV 360,
longitudes past ±180. panorama: a stub WebGL context (angles, lost
context, re-measuring). lineCoverage.test.mjs: tooHigh hint, passes().
- core: openImage({frame:false}) and openNearest leave the camera
(with a posing provider and a default-open control), KartaView's legend
and wording end to end; viewerHost supportsRenderModes.
- Fixed tick-count waits replaced by an until() poll.
- Browser gate fixture: odd photos archived (409 at storage2, served by
the proxy), the first lookup rate-limited (429, Retry-After: 0); the
line-click step asserts the camera stays and › skips the archived photo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Coverage lines from KartaView's z13-14 JSON tiles (OSM ways with photos,
chained end to start), the photo nearest a clicked line, cones along its
sequence, and a viewer for flat photos and 360° panoramas (a small WebGL
equirectangular renderer, no new dependency) with ‹ › along the sequence.
Mapillary's camera-driven line coverage and sequence cones move to the
provider-neutral core (lineCoverage.js, sequenceCones.js) with the tile
fetch, zoom ladder, colours and pick prefixes injected; Mapillary keeps
thin wrappers and its tests pass unchanged.
KartaView quirks handled: api.kartaview.org (the documented
api.openstreetcam.org serves empty tiles), photo URLs that name storage1
for photos stored elsewhere, and a photo API that answers 429 to more than
about three requests at once (two in flight, retried with backoff).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Google's Maps Platform terms forbid Street View imagery beside non-Google
maps, so the provider declares requiresMapStack: 'photoreal': off Google
3D its chip is dashed with the reason, lookups and opens skip it, and
leaving Google 3D closes its panorama.
- Ground clicks: only a click on the map itself (scenePick.isSurfacePick:
nothing picked or Google 3D tile content) at street zoom opens Street
View, and the camera stays put; higher up the hint says to zoom in.
scenePick.pickGroundPosition replaces the copy in Directions.
- Viewer: poses go out at once and again when the date and address
arrive, so an open never hangs on that lookup; one lookup per panorama,
seeded by the nearest lookup; a close settles a pending open; failed
lookups are asked again; poses follow position changes, not pano_changed.
- Loader: the gm_authFailure handler is installed once, so a retried load
reports a refusal once.
- Viewer host: a prewarm that lands after another provider took the host
is released; FIT/FILL availability is set on every open.
- Provider: a refusal while switched off reports no error over another
photo; SINCE compares against the end of Google's month; messages name
the referrer and network causes; FLAT says Street View is 360° only.
- The layer row names the key of the providers that are on; the MCP panel
CSP admits Street View's tiles, control images and photos.
- Tests for each, against fakes that now follow Google's event order; the
browser gate restores its state, waits instead of sleeping, aims its
panel clicks and corner drags, and asserts the camera stays put.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Google Street View registers beside Mapillary as provider `google`. It runs
on the Maps JavaScript API with the browser GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY, loaded on
first use (mapsLoader.js), and uses Google's own StreetViewPanorama as its
viewer adapter, emitting provider-neutral poses (address and month in the
caption, a link to Google Maps, steps along Google's arrows, FOLLOW on
Google 3D). Its chip starts off because every panorama is billed to the
key; the share option is `g`.
Google offers no coverage layer for other maps, so the provider draws
none: with it on, a click on bare ground at street zoom opens its nearest
Google-collected outdoor panorama (groundClick.js). A key Google refuses
reads KEY REJECTED and fails a pending open at once; a lookup Google never
answers fails after 10 s.
Core: providers may declare `groundClick` and `defaultOn`; poses may carry
`capturedAtPrecision` and `title`; the coverage line keeps every
provider's hint; opening one provider's image releases another's
prewarmed viewer; FIT/FILL hides for viewers without render modes. CSP
script-src admits https://maps.googleapis.com. The browser gate gains two
Street View steps (the keyed one skips as 'no Google key' in CI).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Trim the doc text this PR adds (README, CHANGELOG, CURRENT-STATE,
KNOWN-ISSUES, SECURITY, DATA_SOURCES, .env.example, the CI job comment),
drop code comments that restate the code, cut design-note JSDoc to a line
or two, and drop review tags from test names. Comments only; no code
changes.
Also: README key count (seven keys, two metered), CURRENT-STATE's gate
paragraph (CI runs a production build with a dummy token), the stacked
doc above meshBoxInRange and the orphaned inMeshRange line in
coverage.js, and a duplicate ALPR row in DATA_SOURCES that a merge had
brought back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A duplicate scan of every module the PR adds (repeated 4-line blocks,
normalised) after gekh's dedup round left these:
- glyphs.js: the cone, ring and position glyphs share cachedGlyph(), wedge(),
ring() and dot(). Checked with a recording canvas: all 20 draw calls keep
the same path and fill/stroke state, so the glyphs are pixel-identical.
- panelPositionControls.js: one placeAt() for the three places that pin a
panel's top-left corner as a fixed window.
- tiles.js: one warn() for the three background-failure logs.
- Tests: src/testSupport/streetLevelFakes.mjs holds the provider snapshot
(uiState + presentation tests), the stand-in provider (core + controls
tests) and one real-ray pinhole camera (view + coverage tests, which had
each written their own). The coverage line-of-sight test still fails when
refresh() stops passing its focus.
- qa-street-level.mjs: one waitForCoverage() for the five copies of the
"on, drawn, settled, not key-gated" wait.
No behaviour change: unit 5862 pass, fixture gate 16/16, panel gate 5/5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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