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.
OpenAI refused every typed chat request with 400 invalid_function_parameters:
resolve_area's area-id pattern uses Unicode property classes (\p{L}), which
Chat Completions does not accept as a regex. OpenAI chat now leaves such
patterns out of the tool schemas it sends; each action still checks its
arguments against its own contract, and realtime voice keeps the patterns.
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.
A slow re-read of a refused key read as unavailable until it landed; it
now stays refused. The first-read wait is 10 s, for a margin under the
browser's 15 s. A failed Conflicts read no longer stops Local's refresh,
which the server reads on its own. Tests cover GDELT's wait, the refused
key and a caller abort past the timeout, and fail rather than hang; the
docs say what a section serves meanwhile.
A country's first World News API read, or Liveuamap's, could take up to
20 s while the browser waits 15, so the panel showed the browser's own
"signal timed out". A read with nothing to serve yet is now waited for
at most 12 s, as GDELT's already was: past that the section answers
unavailable while the read goes on, and the next refresh is served from
it. A client timeout reads "News feed unavailable".
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]>
The trim that fitted the tilt wording under the Realtime prompt ceiling dropped the -45° default from pitchDeg, so the model no longer read why a bare tilt goes oblique. pitchDeg reads 'Absolute; -45 default, -89 top-down.' again, and the direction description becomes 'Pan/rotate/tilt steps; orbit/rotate_globe default right.' to pay for it: the Overpass prompt measures 55,499, 1 under the 55,500 ceiling. The schema pin and the measured-size note follow.
A quiet or fully filtered feed raised invalid_snapshot, so the proxy
answered 502 with a 15 s cooldown and re-polled about four times a
minute. Only a non-array payload is malformed now; an empty projection
caches for the normal ten minutes and clears earlier rows.
Local ranked its reports by severity first. A country's own news now
carries no severity, so in a conflict area GDELT's reports (severity 1
and up) could crowd every one of its stories out of the 40 listed.
Local is now newest first; severity still shows by colour.
Also: readTitle reads Conflicts headlines only, the economy category's
comment and the attribution popover name World News API's category,
and KNOWN-ISSUES names Core's ids for World News API's categories.
The bundled rules read fighting and crises; in everyday headlines their
words mislead ("Kazakhstan Advances in Global Digital Rankings" read as
ground fighting). A country's own stories in Local now keep World News
API's category (politics, business, else other) and carry no severity.
Fighting in the area still shows through the Conflicts reports placed
there.
An export is given up on (never published, unreadable, or failing three
times) only while GDELT itself answers: its list of exports read, or
another export of the same round read. An outage that answers 404, or junk,
for everything now gives up on nothing, and a failing file earns one strike
a round rather than three within the first seconds' rounds.
Docs: News's share token is 9; territories without a country code are named
as themselves too; the changelog fragment credits one pull request. Unused
exports dropped from the rules and stale scaffolding from the ledger tests.
A host that serves news only from its own news server mounts the proxy with
`builtIn: false`: without GEV_NEWS_ORIGIN the routes then answer "not
configured", as before Core read any news itself.
With GEV_NEWS_ORIGIN unset, Core answers the News layer's routes itself.
Conflicts need no key: the last 24 h of GDELT 2.0 event exports, physical
violence only (CAMEO 18-20), one report per story (copies of one agency
story merged), placed where GDELT put it, a town the article's own words
name winning over a bare country, and titled by the article's page title
from the GKG export of the same quarter hour (the newest 3 h), else by its
address words. GDELT's actor coding is never shown. Exports are read up to
the newest GDELT lists; one that cannot be read is given up on without
holding the rest back, and an outage of two hours answers 502 rather than
an empty feed. With LIVEUAMAP_API_KEY, Liveuamap's mapped items join them.
Local reads World News API by the source country at the view centre
(WORLDNEWSAPI_KEY, at most WORLDNEWSAPI_DAILY_READS a day), with the
Conflicts reports placed inside the area. Disputed areas (11 from Natural
Earth, bundled) and territories without a country code are named as
themselves and read from no country's outlets; a country's outline leaves
them out.
Categories, relevance and severity come from shared rules; keyed answers
are cached and served while they refresh, and no key or address is logged.
From review of the news layer:
- An event's other sides older than 24 hours (or undated) are no longer
listed, and a report dated more than 15 minutes ahead is outside the
window, as in the regional brief.
- Picture cards are one canvas per event in a bounded cache (24), repainted
in place when the age changes, with each card's picture dropped with it;
the age in the key had made a new canvas every minute.
- The feed list drops reports that leave the window and is capped at 600.
- "In view" is filtered from the reports the layer already holds; it reads
the feed only with minor news on, once per refresh, never per pan.
- Infinite scroll restarts after a filter change or a failed read.
- The two filter selects stack, so "Significant and above" is not cut off.
- The timeout tests hold the event loop until aborted, so they pass on
Node 22 as well.
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.
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.
With main merged, the Overpass prompt measured 55,549 against the 55,500 ceiling. The pitchDeg and direction descriptions now read 'Absolute; -89 top-down.' and 'Needed for pan/rotate/tilt steps', bringing it to 55,497. The schema pin and the measured-size note follow.
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]>
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]>
- A tilt's angle, limits and "unchanged" check use the camera's own
pitch. At regional range the pivot pitch is up to about 8 degrees
shallower, so "tilt to 5 degrees" from 900 km ended at -12.9 degrees.
The swing now solves for the pivot pitch that gives the camera angle.
- A zoom out during a pivoting tilt stops at the 1,000 km pivot limit
instead of the orbit's 5,000 km, and a zoom in that reaches the
clearance is applied before the pivot ends.
- An angle the camera already holds still takes navigation, so it stops
a running motion and releases the follow camera.
- A motion queued behind a fly-to moves to a newer fly-to as soon as it
begins, so a stalled lookup no longer holds it past a flight that
landed. Wait listeners are removed when a wait ends, and a lookup that
found nothing points straight at the flight that moved.
- A fly-to that stops a running motion names it (stoppedMotion).
- A tilt left or right is refused, and the pitchDeg description says
steps use direction.
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.
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]>
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.
A foreign Origin or Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site request was answered and
counted against the client's 60-a-minute quota, and could start a refresh.
Run the keyless same-site checks the other map routes use before rate
limiting and cache acquisition; reverse-proxy forwarding headers stay
accepted. List the route with the keyless map routes in SECURITY.md.
The source dropped the proxy's stale flag and fetch time, so the layer row
read nominal and freshly updated through an outage, and the proxy served its
last snapshot indefinitely. Carry stale and fetchedAt through the source as
Fire Perimeters does, date a stale snapshot by its fetch, and stop serving a
snapshot more than 24 hours old.
An upstream answer whose zones all fail validation normalized to an empty
list, and paging that stopped at the page limit while the service still
flagged more records was accepted as complete. Both were cached as a fresh
snapshot for an hour and replaced the last good one. Treat them as failed
refreshes so stale-on-error keeps serving the previous snapshot.
Main now offers osm_query, and names it in the prompt, only when Overpass
is configured. Typed chat follows the same switch on both providers: its
prompt, the tools it offers and the calls it accepts.
Re-pin the Realtime tool payload hash for the merged tree (voice geometry plus pitchDeg). To fit main's 55,500 prompt ceiling with Overpass on, the pitchDeg schema drops its -90..90 range (the runner already clamps to -89..-5, now pinned by a test) and its description is shorter. The Overpass prompt measures 55,492.
/api/osm/features keyed its rate limit and its one-search-per-client slot
by the full peer address, so an IPv6 host could rotate addresses inside
its /64 to take both global slots and slip the 12/min limit. It now uses
clientNetworkKey, as /api/overpass does.
Picks up acd87e6c: the keyless cross-site gate on /api/osm/features
(582bfce6) and main at 93804d5d. SECURITY.md, the format-scope list and
the schema-test comments take the branch's side; the place-search budget
wording from the timeout fix is kept.
Without a limit parameter the route read null, Number(null) is 0, and the
clamp turned that into a one-feature list. An absent or empty limit now
gets the documented default of 500.
daika