adsbdb supplies the aircraft type, model name and registration behind every
enriched flight, and the airline and origin/destination pair behind the
tracked contact's FROM -> TO strip. It appeared in neither attribution
surface: DATA_SOURCES.md and src/data/dataCredits.js each held zero
occurrences of it, against the rule both files state for themselves and
CONTRIBUTING's fourth pull-request item. adsb.lol is a different operator and
its ODbL credit does not reach this data.
The reporter of #256 left the patch off deliberately, saying the terms were
what should not be guessed. They are published, so this takes them from the
source rather than inventing them: adsbdb credits PlaneBase for the aircraft
data and Guillaume Michel for the ICAO-to-N-number conversion, and states that
the flight route data "is the work of David Taylor, Edinburgh and Jim Mason,
Glasgow, and may not be copied, published, or incorporated into other
databases without the explicit permission of David J Taylor, Edinburgh". No
licence or rate limit is published for the service itself.
That restriction is the reason the note records what the proxy does with what
it fetches: responses are cached per key for 24 hours in .gev-cache/adsbdb.json,
which is gitignored, so the data stays on the operator's machine and is never
bundled with this repo or redistributed.
A test pins the credit. The attribution is a requirement rather than a
preference, so it should fail loudly if a later edit drops the names or the
restriction, instead of surviving on luck.
scripts/format.mjs skips *.test.mjs during runtime discovery, so a test
added under a discovered root is never seen by format:check until it is
listed in scripts/format-scope.json — which is what CODE-BOUNDARIES.md
means by adding tests to the explicit list as they are adopted. The file
went in unformatted and the check stayed green, hiding it.
Listed and formatted; format:check now covers 917 files instead of 916.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
ITU-R M.1371 encodes speed over ground in 0.1-knot units and course over
ground in 0.1-degree units, reserving the top code of each field for "not
available": SOG 1023 reaches us as 102.3 knots and COG 3600 as 360 degrees.
Both are finite, so numberValue passed them through as ordinary readings and
every consumer — vessel cards, the HUD, voice analyst queries — treated a
missing measurement as a real one.
Observed on a live AISStream feed of 3,062 vessels: exactly 3 records at
102.3 knots with no reading anywhere between 40 and 102.3, and 404 records
at exactly 360 degrees. One Dutch rescue boat moored at its station carried
both sentinels at once, so an analyst summary reported a maximum speed of
102.3 knots — faster than any vessel afloat.
Filter both at the store, where AISStream messages are decoded, so the
sentinels never enter the cache. Heading already had this treatment through
normalizedHeading with its own separate sentinel of 511.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Every pack sets headingConfidence on each camera, but nothing consumed it:
a bearing synthesized by fallbackHeadingFromId (a hash of the id string,
no geographic input) rendered exactly like a surveyed one — 2,827 of 3,997
cameras in a default catalog. Fixes#639.
Two consumers, plus a passthrough:
- HUD: the heading token is tagged when the bearing is synthetic —
`HDG 194° (ESTIMATED)` — so a hash never reads as a measured facing.
- Wireframe: a low-confidence camera draws its coverage frustum with dashed
polylines instead of solid ones. Colors, widths, and the active/idle
emphasis are unchanged; the dash is the only signal.
- Public camera state gains `headingConfidence` (the raw pack flag) and
`headingEstimated` (the derived bit) so UI consumers never re-derive it.
A human-vouched pose always wins over the pack flag: a manually saved
calibration (calSource:'manual') or a curated catalog entry
(poseSource:'curated') is never presented as estimated, mirroring the CAL
badge states in calibration.js.
- src/layers/cctv/headingConfidence.js: pure helpers (isHeadingEstimated,
headingHudToken)
- src/layers/cctv/headingConfidence.test.mjs: confidence normalization,
calibration/curation overrides, HUD token formatting
- src/layers/cctv/presentation.js: HUD token + public-state passthrough
- src/layers/cctv/rendering.js: dashed materials for estimated bearings
The previous fix wrapped the span correctly but normalized the
returned west/east back into [-180, 180), which re-inverts the box
whenever it crosses the antimeridian (west > east again). Downstream
consumers (getBoundsCenter, boundsOverlap) assume west <= east and
silently misbehave on an inverted box: the fetch center lands on the
opposite side of the planet, and the overlap gate never skips a
re-fetch.
Drop the normalization and leave west/east unnormalized instead, so
the box stays monotonic. The only remaining edge case (coordinates
outside the conventional range reaching the Overpass query builder)
is a visible, separate problem rather than a silently wrong center.
Addresses review feedback on #392.
Upstream added Director, Transit/GTFS-Realtime and Bhote Koshi scene work
in the same window; the only real conflict was two adjacent CHANGELOG
entries, resolved by keeping both.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
## Changes
Follow-up to #596 from the owner's look: a parked transit vehicle turned with the camera. Moving vehicles project their world course into screen space on every camera change, but a vehicle that had never moved on screen could have no display course and was skipped by that pass, leaving its billboard at a screen-anchored angle; rotation invalidation also relied on camera events that a pose change without a revision could miss. Now every visible vehicle with any usable course (derived, held, or the feed's reported bearing) is re-projected at the existing 5 Hz cadence on camera pose changes. Moving playback and the 120°/s course limiter are unchanged.
## How it was verified
- `npm run format:check` (861 files), `npm run check:boundaries` (109 groups), `npm test` (4,068 passing), `npm run build` clean; tracking regression 109/109 in a real browser on Google 3D tiles.
- Node tests: a stationary vehicle with a held course, and one with only a reported bearing, under a camera at heading 0° then 90° yield screen rotations 90° apart.
- Browser harness (`scripts/qa-transit.mjs`, keyed on Google 3D tiles): a parked scripted vehicle orbited by 90° rotates 90.000° on screen; a moving vehicle's rotation still matches its rendered travel; both checks fail on main and pass here. Full keyed run: 201 pass; the nine failures are the per-frame allocation gate already recorded as a follow-up and threshold-edge readability lines on the Boston matrix, both unchanged from #596.
## Changes
Follow-up to #587 after the owner's first look at the merged transit layer on Google 3D tiles.
- **Sensor presets keep the real silhouettes.** Under NVG, thermal (white-hot, black-hot, Ironbow) and noir, vehicles are the same silhouettes as in normal view, filled opaque white with a 2 px dark halo, at the CRT display sizes (26 px fleet, 39 px selected). The solid rounded "signature" bodies are gone.
- **The selected vehicle's trail is visible.** The retained history is now draped onto 3D tiles and terrain (`GroundPolylinePrimitive`, `ClassificationType.BOTH`, the way the traffic heat-lines are drawn), 3 px core over a 5 px dark backing, per-segment age colour, a short draped head clipped to the sprite. Two defects kept it off screen before: Cesium's per-instance attribute getters return copies, so the renderer's show/colour edits were discarded, and a marker did not recover after the camera jumped to it, which hid the trail with it. Trail geometry is now prepared on selection independent of floor resolution and marker visibility; sparse long intervals (rail) keep a bounded marker corridor instead of dropping the interval; classification survives map-source changes.
- **Transit sits in the Movement panel group** between Street Traffic and Bike Share (the panel orders by `PANEL_GROUPS`, not by catalog order; the catalog is moved too).
## How it was verified
- `npm run format:check` (854 files), `npm run check:boundaries`, `npm test` (4,062 passing), `npm run build` clean; tracking regression 109/109 in a real browser on Google 3D tiles.
- Browser harness (`scripts/qa-transit.mjs`), keyed on Google 3D tiles and keyless: keyed 194 pass, with the trail pixel check passing at 300, 600 and 900 m; the remaining keyed failures are the per-frame allocation gate already recorded as a follow-up from #587 (CPU and frame time within budget), four readability lines at threshold edges, and the card-anchor check now counting frames where the selected marker is legitimately off screen; keyless 193 pass with the remaining misses being threshold edges on the thin tram silhouette (centre 0.83–0.88 against 0.85) and one bus ring 0.28 against 0.25 on a pure-white roof.
- New harness checks: `Google 3D selected trail visible at 6 of 8 projected samples` (repeated off/on framebuffer captures at 300/600/900 m, samples outside the sprite footprint, a background-change negative control; fails on main, passes here), a camera-arrival check (select a moving vehicle, `setView` onto it, marker shown and trail body drawn within 2 s), `PANEL_ORDER` pinned, raster tests comparing every sensor raster's mask and aspect ratio to the normal silhouette.
- Direct look on a keyed build: a live CapMetro bus at 30 m/s selected through the layer API draws its draped trail along the highway lane (harness capture `keyed-600m-trail-visible.jpg`).
- Adversarial review by Codex Astra before the last two fix passes (stack-switch classification, marker corridor under the vertex cap, pixel-gate loophole), all three fixed with regressions.
Docs: `docs/CURRENT-STATE.md` and `CHANGELOG.md` updated in this PR. No data-source changes.
The in-memory cache in the terrain-height resolver had no eviction, so a
session retained every coordinate it ever resolved for the lifetime of the
page. The 5-decimal rounding documented in the file header makes repeated
visits to one place share a key, but it does not bound how many distinct
places a session visits.
Cap it at 20 000 entries, overridable per instance so the bound is testable
without minting twenty thousand coordinates. Eviction is least-recently-used
rather than insertion-ordered because revisits here are spatial: the cell the
camera is parked on must not be dropped for having been resolved early.
The bound sits far above a city-scale session at the ~111 m floor grid, so
normal use never evicts and issues no additional proxy requests. Batch results
are assembled from what the call resolved, so eviction during a large batch
cannot report a just-resolved point as unresolved.
One WFS/GML XML feed (~135 cameras) aggregating three publishers under a
`font` field: SCT's own highway cameras plus hotlinked Barcelona (IMI) and
Terrassa municipal cameras. Frame URLs are checked against a small host
allowlist rather than one pinned origin, and every non-SCT camera carries
its real owner as a `credit` shown beside the shared provider. The feed
carries no compass heading, so every camera loads at low heading confidence
(same as TfL and Fintraffic), and ground elevation is primed per publisher
rather than one flat prior.
SCT's own frame link needed a workaround: RenderService always 302s to a
second endpoint (TransitCamera) on a Location the upstream hardcodes as
plain http even when requested over https — refused by fetchWithinHost's
same-origin (scheme-included) redirect policy, by design (stops an upstream
steering a host-pinned request into a plaintext downgrade). Separately,
mct.gencat.cat's TLS setup fails the handshake with Node's fetch outright
(ERR_SSL_WRONG_SIGNATURE_TYPE) even though other HTTP clients complete it.
The loader builds the TransitCamera URL itself, over plain http, from
RenderService's sctidcam id, instead of registering the broken upstream
link — the only transport this host actually serves to this runtime.
Verified against the live feed and the production fetch path
(fetchCctvImageFromUpstream): all 135 cameras return real image bytes, 0
false positives. Ambient-card refresh cadence added to src/data/cctvLod.js
(3 minutes), matching the upstream update rate measured empirically (no
change inside 64s, changed within ~90-150s) — the same cadence already used
for Caltrans/TfL/Ontario/TxDOT.
CCTV_CATALONIA_MAX_SOURCES sets the cap and CCTV_CATALONIA_ENABLED=0 turns
the pack off. No overlap with any existing pack (checked catalog.js and the
git history for Spain/Catalonia/Barcelona coverage: none exists).
Verified before this commit: format, check:boundaries, unit suite (3692
tests), and build all green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Retain active-flight preloading while canceling hidden frames and pending Facebook sessions on stop, disable, and replacement. Add lifecycle and pointer-ownership regression coverage. Apply the runtime formatting adopted on main and keep the existing source-shape check insensitive to that formatting.
Supersedes #218 by @spcpza, ported onto the current component layout with fixes from review.
Verified before merge: format, package boundaries, unit suite, build, and the browser tracking suite; a browser harness for the change where one applies; adversarial review applied.
Contributor: @spcpza. His original commit is the base of this branch, and his own re-port onto main (2026-09-15, `5b69011`) was consulted while finishing the height work. That port reads every vehicle's surface from the app's shared ground-floor system (`cachedGroundFloor` / `warmGroundFloor` / `GROUND_FLOOR_LIFT_M`) rather than sampling the scene per layer, keeps a vehicle hidden until its cell answers, warms a bounded batch per poll on a timer instead of per frame, and renders at the ellipsoid above the altitude gate. That is the sounder primitive — one floor system for the app, with the rooftop-versus-street question already settled against a datum-correct DEM prior — and this branch's height work was rebuilt on it, replacing a bespoke cell cache, ground prior and rooftop rule written here. Credit for that direction is his.
Future work (not in this PR), both written up in docs/CURRENT-STATE.md:
- Readable route names. The realtime feeds carry only `route_id`; `route_short_name` / `route_long_name` live in each operator's static GTFS `routes.txt`, and headsigns in `trips.txt`. Doing it properly wants a server-side metadata loader beside the transit proxy with fixed registered static sources, bounded indexes built once and persisted, a slow conditional refresh, and a versioned route dictionary the browser caches. Shipped here: ids are never rewritten, and a cut one carries an ellipsis instead of reading as a typo.
- Below-ground rendering. Subway vehicles are drawn on the surface directly above themselves, because the feeds carry no depth and a train nobody can see is not worth drawing; the card says so plainly. Real treatment wants OSM tunnel geometry per city and a ghosted sprite tethered to the surface. The owner recorded it and left it.
Round four and after (2026-09-15). The owner tested round three under FLIR and NVG, and then asked for the design to be taken further: elegant in performance, beautiful on camera, trails with a cache for public transport, Cesium-native, and a core other moving layers can adopt. Codex Astra reviewed the plan (it confirmed the speed fault: a glide started from the drawn position at receipt time but spanned the gap between report times, so with MBTA reporting every ~10 s against a 15 s poll every second glide ran at 1.5x; it rejected a queued-segment patch), then wrote the design, then implemented it in commit-sized passes with adversarial review between them and real-browser harness runs by the integrator.
What this PR now contains beyond the contributor's original port:
- Delayed playback in a contact-agnostic core (`src/data/contactPlayback.js`): each vehicle keeps a typed, bounded fix history and a display clock that runs at one second per second through it, a feed-derived lag behind real time, holding at its newest fix rather than extrapolating and never sprinting to catch up. Marker, course, motion word, card and trail all read the same displayed sample. The clock has an explicit time-offset and seek API so a rewind is a later feature, not a rewrite; flights and vessels are untouched.
- A selected-vehicle trail (`src/data/contactTrailRenderer.js`, `src/layers/transit/trails.js`): the retained history drawn with batched Cesium primitives, clipped at display time so the head is exactly the sprite, faded by age, in the mode colour (white under sensor presets), on the same surface path as the marker.
- Bounded proxy-side history (`server/providers/transitHistory.js`): fifteen minutes and at most 128 fixes per vehicle with hard byte ceilings, MBTA only for now (opt-in per feed), served by a small endpoint that never fetches upstream, so a selected trail survives a browser reload while the server keeps running.
- Scene work bounded to what is visible and moving, an occluder, cached DETECT candidates, holds on the render loop only while something visible moves.
- Sensor presets: white-hot haloed sprites under NVG/FLIR/noir (black-hot inverts), saturated mode colours under CRT, per-mode bracket tiers in every theme, the selected card keeping its mode colour.
- A discriminating browser harness (`scripts/qa-transit.mjs`) that samples postRender frames, reads the real card anchor, and measures fleet budgets at 800 and 3,000 vehicles.
Not built, recorded as follow-ups: curated route display names (lowest priority per the owner), fleet-wide tails, route snapping, a rewind UI, adoption of the playback core by flights and vessels.
Verified at merge (2026-09-15 morning): unit suite 3,896 passing, build clean, format and boundary gates clean, tracking regression 109/109, browser harness keyless 200 pass / 0 fail (13 sensor checks unexercised because the live view offered fewer than six isolated sprites; every judged sprite passed), keyed on Google 3D tiles 198 pass with the per-frame allocation gate as the only failure. Follow-ups recorded: the keyed build's playback sampler still allocates per frame (CPU and frame time stay within budget; the 3,000-vehicle metro view sits at a 27.6 ms frame interval against a 25 ms budget), the shared detection overlay's per-paint allocation, friendlier route names, fleet-wide tails, a rewind UI, and adopting the playback core for vessels and flights.
Co-authored-by: spcpza <[email protected]>
## Explore the map without losing your target
Tilt and north-up used to stop tracking an aircraft or satellite. Both controls now keep the selected target centered while easing into the new angle over 650 ms, preserving camera range. Tilt switches between top-down and oblique views; north-up takes the shortest rotation. Rapid presses reverse a pending tilt, and pressing north-up during a tilt completes both changes.
New navigation, target selection, map gestures, and teardown cancel the transition. Cockpit keeps its existing camera guard.
## A data panel that follows how you explore
The panel now has five clearly labeled sections:
| Section | Layer order |
| --- | --- |
| Movement | Satellites → Live Flights → Military Flights → Live Vessels → Street Traffic → Bike Share |
| Cameras | Cameras → Mapped ALPR Cameras |
| Infrastructure | Mapped Installations → Data Centers → Submarine Cables → Dams |
| Events | Space Missions → Earthquakes → Active Fires |
| Utilities | Directions → Radio |
Readable panel labels replace CCTV, Bikeshare, Datacenters, and provider-heavy names. Source attribution remains in the subtitles, and toggle accessibility labels match the visible names. Presentation order is independent of layer registration; hidden layers stay hidden and unlisted layers remain available under Other layers.
## Validation
- Camera changes: full Node 24 suite, including allocation gates — 3,699 passing and one skipped.
- Final panel changes: 42 focused tests passed; browser inspection confirmed all sections, ordering, and labels.
- Real Cesium Camera/EntityView tests cover moving aircraft, low/high satellites, cancellation, navigation ownership, and rapid button presses.
- Live browser: UITMSAT-2 remained centered and selected through tilt and north-up, including combined commands.
- Final formatting, package-boundary checks, and production build pass.
- GitHub CI verifies the final head on Node 24, Node 26, and Windows onboarding before merge.
Sameh Khamis