Tracking a civil flight asks Planespotters for that aircraft's photo, once
per aircraft, straight from the browser. The CONTEXT panel's CONTACTS view
shows it under the flight's name with the photographer's credit, as a plain
link to the photo's page. Only images on plnspttrs.net and pages on
www.planespotters.net are ever shown or linked. Military aircraft and a
converted TR-3B are never looked up.
Flight lookups (type, route, photo) whose source failed temporarily are
asked again after a 60-second cool-down; an answer, found or not, and a
permanent refusal stay final for the session. A route belongs to the
callsign it was looked up for, so a callsign change drops the old route.
Browser QA scripts that track a flight answer the photo lookup themselves,
so they never call the third party.
Rouen now reads Métropole Rouen Normandie's TCAR vehicle feed
(api.mrn.cityway.fr) and Le Havre LiA's own GTFS-RT
(opendata.transports-lia.fr), both listed in their transport.data.gouv.fr
records, instead of the unofficial bus-tracker.fr relay. LiA ids carry an
8- prefix, so a new liaRouteLabel strips it and liaRouteMode reads the line.
- Prague PID: map route-id ranges from PID's GTFS (metro L991-993, S/R trains
L1000s/L1100s, P ferries L1800s, trolleybuses 50-59, X lines, funicular LD)
instead of 'below 100 is a tram, rest bus'.
- Bordeaux TBM: trams ride numbered ids 59-62/163/164 (A-F), boats 951-953;
the old letter match never fired.
- Rouen Astuce: TCAR:90 Metro as tram, TCAR:99 Calypso as ferry; Le Havre FUNI.
- Warsaw and Poznan: credit carries the data date (and Warsaw links its API),
as their terms require.
- data.gov.my feeds: CC BY 4.0, refreshMs 30 s to stay under 4 requests/min;
proxy honours per-feed refreshMs.
- Denver: quote the RTD agreement; tests use the feeds' real route ids.
An imaging satellite with a known sensor can now zoom past 8x, up to 128x,
as far as the view stays at least as wide as the sensor's narrowest
standard swath at its live altitude; only swaths confirmed on a cited page
open those steps. The top step follows the altitude and window shape and
steps back when it falls below the zoom shown.
The view draws the sensor's swath to scale along the ground track with a
SENSOR SWATH readout (approximate off nadir), and a SENSOR button zooms to
exactly that width when it lies in range at nadir. From 16x the imagery
tiles the view will need 5 to 20 s ahead along the ground track are
pre-loaded at the matching level. The mouse wheel steps the zoom one notch
at a time, and the identity line shows how old the TLE is. The sensor
figures come from a new bundled pack of 46 Earth-observation platforms,
each value cited to its operator or agency, with its own data credit.
With a satellite tracked and no aircraft tracked, Cockpit can ride the
satellite. Entry needs only the Satellites layer; debris can be tracked but
not entered, and voice stays aircraft-only. Double-clicking the tracked
satellite or the entry buttons (reading ORBIT) enter it.
The camera sits on the satellite's per-frame SGP4 position and looks
straight down, turned to the ground track (north-up for a satellite with
none). The optical zoom steps 1x to 8x with a focus pull, the arrows tilt
the view up to 45 degrees off nadir, and Home or 0 returns to nadir. Off
nadir the tilt reads its total angle first and the swath readout becomes an
approximation marked with ≈. While in orbit the map leases flat Esri
imagery, the cloud pass stays off and the view opens in the optical style.
The orbital HUD names the satellite with its owner's flag (from the
flag-icons package, loaded per country) or an organisation badge, its
operator, class, NORAD and COSPAR ids and TLE epoch with the element lines
on request, altitude, orbital speed and the sub-satellite point. CURRENTLY
OVER names the country and its first-level division, or the sea, and from
8x the most prominent populated place nearby, looked up offline from the
bundled Natural Earth packs (populated places are a new pack). The
satellites layer hides the ridden satellite's own marks, dims the other
orbit rings and ignores scene clicks and Escape while held. Exit restores
the camera's field of view and the satellite's follow camera.
C no longer enters or leaves Cockpit, bridge or orbit: it is left to the
app-wide CCTV shortcut, and Escape or the exit button leave first person.
The orbital view reads a satellite's owner country, operator, COSPAR id,
TLE epoch and whether its class can be ridden. #1558 now carries only
what the class toggles read, so this brings the rest back here, where it
is first used: the classes.js helpers and the UCS pack's operator and
owner fields.
The satellites layer now sorts every object into Stations, Imaging,
Telecom, Starlink, Probes or Debris, each with a chip and a live count on
the layer row. Stations and Imaging show by default; the Starlink chip is
the former DENSE catalog switch. Hidden classes keep their points, so a
toggle needs no reload, and they leave the detection overlay and the voice
position lists.
A class comes, strongest evidence first, from CelesTrak SATCAT (object type
and status, served by a new /api/celestrak-satcat/<group> proxy route and
cached for a day), the bundled UCS Satellite Database pack (operator, owner
country and purpose), name patterns for later launches, and the CelesTrak
group. The core catalog also reads the resource, weather, planet, sar and
science groups. Payloads with no evidence of life launched 20 or more years
ago are filed as debris. The UCS pack, its build script and its data credit
are added.
The licence page refuses automated requests; its text was read in a browser.
Credit now uses the licence's own attribution statement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Prague, Warsaw, Kraków (buses and trams), Poznań, Gdańsk, Rzeszów, Vilnius,
Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Rome, Turin, Venice (buses and waterbuses),
Bordeaux, Montpellier, Rouen, Toulon, Le Havre, Tours, Málaga, Lisbon's city
Carris, Sendai, Johor Bahru, Kota Bharu, Adelaide, Atlanta, Denver, Edmonton,
Halifax and Victoria.
Each entry records its licence, or that none is stated and the Metro
Transit/OVapi basis it ships on. Montpellier and Toulon publish km/h and are
converted. Route ids are read as the rider-facing line; Prague, Bordeaux and
Le Havre trams and Venice waterbuses take their own mode. Adelaide needs
`Accept: */*` to get binary protobuf. Every feed was fetched through the dev
proxy on 2026-11-08.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Keyless GTFS-Realtime feed from Carris Metropolitana, documented in the
operator's public API repository. No licence is stated for the realtime
endpoint (the static GTFS is CC BY 4.0), so it is credited as a courtesy on
the same basis as the Metro Transit and OVapi feeds. The feed publishes km/h,
so a new `speedUnit` registry field lets the proxy convert to m/s. Route ids
wrap the GTFS route id in an area prefix and are read as the line number.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Main now ships an Iceland pack that loads the full live Vegagerðin list
(about 500 views) with its CC BY 4.0 credit. The World catalog's 166
Vegagerðin rows point at the same frames under different ids, so every one
of those cameras would be drawn twice. Drop them from the World export and
its loader policy; World is now 2,230 rows and the default catalog limit
7,350 (4,000 shared slots plus 3,350 reserved).
Register Data attribution entries for Ottawa, Québec, TripCheck and MLIT,
as every other CCTV pack has. MLIT's terms ask for the source in the form
"出典：国土交通省 川の防災情報" with the page link, and ODOT asks for
"Camera courtesy of ODOT"; TripCheck partner cameras keep their owner's
name in the label.
The Houston guard test from main checked the old 4,000 default ceiling;
check the 4,000 shared slots instead, like the other pack tests.
- Label repeat-collapse uses letter lookarounds instead of ASCII-only \b, so
'Þverá Árnessýslu' is no longer joined and 'séð séð' collapses.
- 'til austurs og vesturs' and 'í norður og suður' name two facings and keep
the low-confidence pose.
- Fallback name uses the frame stem when the station number is missing.
- Tests: label and heading regressions, dedupe keeps the last row, cap clamp,
high-confidence pose, frame redirect pin; file added to format scope.
- Credit names the dataset, links the terms and states no endorsement.
One JSON list from gagnaveita.vegagerdin.is (about 500 camera views at roughly
170 road stations). Frames are JPEG stills in a single directory on
www.vegagerdin.is; only links inside that directory are registered, and the
media proxy pins the same directory.
The list decides ids, coordinates and which frame path is proxied, so it is
fetched over https with redirects refused and the body read capped at 2 MiB;
every rejection path releases the response body. Camera ids come from the frame
file name, which is unique per view in the live feed, and repeated frames
collapse before the cap.
The feed's view description (`Skyring`) is the label. An explicit Icelandic
facing ("til vesturs", "í suður", "séð austur") sets a high-confidence heading
(264 of 499 views); a view that states none, or two different ones, keeps the
id-hash low-confidence pose. A bare road direction ("Miklabraut austur") is not
read as a facing.
IRCA publishes road camera images under CC BY 4.0 and asks that the licensor is
acknowledged without implying endorsement; the attribution is in the Data
attribution popover and DATA_SOURCES.md, and every camera carries the licence
string. Default cap is 250 with anchors at Reykjavík and four regional centres so
a cap keeps every region. CCTV_ICELAND_ENABLED=0 turns the pack off.
Verified against the live feed through fetchCctvImageFromUpstream: 499 of 499
frames returned a JPEG, all distinct, all under 20 minutes old.
Keyless GTFS-Realtime feed published by ZDiTM Szczecin under CC0 1.0.
Speeds are m/s (checked against vehicle movement), the file refreshes about
every 20 s, and the feed carries no route ids, so vehicles take the default
bus mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
/grid/{z}/{x}/{y}.grid.json is documented in the v1 and v2 API docs as
Grid Tiles UTFGrid; only its per-cell records are unspecified, which is
what the schema guard covers. DATA_SOURCES.md now also notes that
Acartia's README asks API users to create an account and an API key,
although /sightings/current answers without one today.
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.
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.
SMTR's realtime feeds carry internal route keys, so a Rio card read
"Route O0731AAN0A" where riders know line SN731. Join both feeds to the
route_short_name in SMTR's static GTFS routes.txt (CC BY 4.0, same
publisher and terms). The keys cannot be parsed: O0014AAA0A is LECD135.
A 2026-11-04 snapshot found all 282 bus and 21 BRT routes in service in
the table; an unknown key still falls through raw.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
NASA stopped delivering Suomi NPP data on 2026-11-02 (FIRMS news page).
With a live MAP_KEY on 2026-11-04, VIIRS_SNPP_NRT came back ok with zero
rows while NOAA-20, NOAA-21 and MODIS returned 57k, 49k and 11k, so the
source only spent one transaction per refresh. The proxy now requests
NOAA-20, NOAA-21 and MODIS NRT. The "N" satellite label stays, so cached
or archived Suomi NPP rows still read SNPP.
Tests count sources from the list instead of assuming four, and a
regression test keeps the retired source out of the production list.
Refs #849
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Resolves the DATA_SOURCES.md conflict by keeping main's rewritten Transit
and Radio bullets and restating the count for this branch: eighteen feeds
covering seventeen regions (the two Rio feeds share one region).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
TranStar's Content Usage terms prohibit copying, distribution and
external framing of its images without TxDOT's prior written
permission. The opt-in text only said the pack was off unless
CCTV_HOUSTON_ENABLED=1, without saying what an operator needs before
setting it. Say "enable only if you hold TxDOT's written permission" in
.env.example, the README, DATA_SOURCES.md, CURRENT-STATE and the
changelog, matching the NYC and Florida packs, and fix the column of the
.env.example comment.
The houston-cctv credit now reads "(Houston, when enabled)" and links
the Content Usage terms, like the Florida credit. Where the docs said
frames are "never stored or redistributed", they now say what happens:
frames are relayed on demand, buffered only per request, sent with
no-store and not archived.
TranStar's `dir` field is the side of the freeway a camera sits on, not
the way it faces. TranStar's own map script (translateCameraDirection)
shows it as "Traffic closest to the camera is traveling": South is
eastbound, North westbound, West southbound and anything else
northbound. The live catalog agrees: I-10 cameras are North/South and
I-45 cameras East/West.
Treating `dir` as a high-confidence facing pointed most Houston cameras
across or away from the road they watch, and dropped the "estimated"
marking. Map it to the travel direction instead (S 90, N 270, W 180,
E 0) as a low-confidence prior with the low-confidence pose, and keep
the id-hash fallback for None or unknown values.
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.
Both stack parents (#837, #842) are on main, so the voice geometry branch
now builds on main directly. Conflict resolutions keep main's behaviour and
add the geometry work on top: osm_query gating on every provider, restored
admin identity for Nominatim outlines, merged analyst follow-up memory, and
the cancelled Globe View reset instruction ahead of the generic cancellation.
Resolve the CURRENT-STATE.md layer table by keeping main's realigned
table and adding this layer's row. Main added an Arabic locale, so
translate the 12 layer strings and list ar.json in the drone-airspace
package.
Sameh Khamis