gods-eye-view/docs/KNOWN-ISSUES.md

KNOWN ISSUES

Updated: September 22, 2026

This file tracks active runtime issues only.

For the roadmap and open backlog, see the repository issue tracker.

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Open

Street traffic can be slow/uneven when panning across dense city blocks

Status: Open (partially mitigated)

Context:

• Current traffic loader fetches one clamped viewport tile at a time (major pass, then full pass).
• In dense cores, some visible roads can appear late after city jumps or fast pans.
• Zooming into adjacent streets does not always immediately trigger higher-detail coverage for all visible roads.

Current mitigation in runtime:

• Fair per-road dot budget allocation (reduces hard starvation under global MAX_DOTS cap).
• Center-shift threshold (reduces stale overlap lock while panning).

Next iteration candidates:

• Prioritize currently visible road segments inside the active viewport before off-center segments.
• Add neighbor prefetch ring for nearby tiles after jump-to-city actions.
• Add adaptive dot cap by frame time (coverage first, density second).
• Promote sync chip from loading indicator to true multi-phase progress.

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CCTV panel can appear "missing"

Status: Open (workaround available)

Context:

• The rails lay their panels out themselves. No panel is dragged into place at startup and no stored position is read, so a panel that looks missing is collapsed or its layer is off rather than parked off-screen. The CCTV panel starts collapsed and stays that way until you open it or a camera activates.

Workaround:

• Check that the CCTV layer is enabled in the Layers panel, then open the panel from its header control; it also opens on its own when a camera activates.
• To force it open on an ordinary load, store the expanded state and reload. In the browser console:
  • localStorage.setItem('godsEyeView.v6.panelCollapsed.cctv-panel', '0');
  • location.reload();
• Removing that key instead returns the panel to its default, which is collapsed:
  • localStorage.removeItem('godsEyeView.v6.panelCollapsed.cctv-panel');
  • location.reload();
• Neither console line changes anything when the page was opened from a share link: a shared view is laid out from the link, not from what this browser has stored, so open the panel from its header control instead.

Related keys (current versions):

• Panel collapsed state: godsEyeView.v6.panelCollapsed.<panel-id> — '0' open, '1' closed, absent means the panel's own default. A view opened from a share link ignores the stored value entirely.
• Panel positions: godsEyeView.v8.panelPos.<panel-id> — written only for a floating portable panel (CCTV, Street Level). Deleting it, or double-clicking the panel header, docks the panel again.
• CCTV calibration: godsEyeView.cctv.calibration.v2

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Height-datum residuals (branch feat/height-datum, pending merge)

Status: Open (owner-accepted 2026-07-08, documented)

• Cold-start floor latency: at a freshly-visited airport, grounded/low aircraft float low for ~1–2 poll cycles (30–60 s) and rise as terrain floors resolve; a few stragglers take one more poll.
• Born-grounded first poll: a contact first seen on the ground with no altitude data renders at the geoid for ≤1 poll until its floor cell warms.
• Full context, improvement ideas, and the verification oracle (scripts/qa-floor-verify.mjs): docs/superpowers/reports/2026-07-08-height-datum-handover.md.

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Weather layers: coverage and meaning

Status: Open (source limits, by design)

• Rain radar covers the contiguous United States only. It shows MRMS reflectivity in dBZ, not rainfall rate or a forecast; a gap in coverage does not mean no precipitation.
• Lightning density is a ground-network grid, not GLM flashes. It is NOAA's 15-minute density product derived from Vaisala NLDN/GLD360 on an approximately 8 km grid, for the Americas and Pacific only (110°E across the dateline to 0°, 25°S–80°N). It is not a live strike counter or an all-clear.
• Cyclone advisories cover NOAA's basins only: the Atlantic and the eastern/central North Pacific (NHC and CPHC). Storms elsewhere do not appear. The cone is forecast-center uncertainty, not storm size.
• Satellite clouds: global infrared is hourly with typically 2–3 hours of source latency. Clouds only is a brightness filter, not a cloud mask.
• Wind is a forecast. The animation flows through one forecast on an approximately 1° grid and does not advance forecast time or follow the observed-history timeline.
• History is not shared. Share links carry the weather layers and their settings but open at Latest.
• 3D Tiles detail window during history playback: when a frame's detail image is slow to arrive, the window may fall back to the coarser full-extent image until it does.
• Native hardware GPU behavior of the wind and weather renderers is not yet verified.

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Satellite passes and analyst answers

Status: Open (by design)

• Pass predictions search the next 24 hours for satellites in the loaded catalog. Visibility is a geometric estimate (satellite sunlit, observer's Sun at or below −6°); it ignores weather, satellite brightness and orbital-element age.
• Analyst counts and ranks cover a bounded set of loaded records (by default 2,000 per layer for satellites, datacenters and dams), so omitted records can change a nearest or count answer. Satellite distance is ground distance.

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Live camera video (HLS)

Status: Open (limits)

• At most two live-video sessions run at once. RTMP-only sources and encrypted, fMP4 or byte-range playlists are not supported.
• When live video fails, the camera falls back to its labeled still, Street View or placeholder frame, which is not live video.

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Closed / Intentional (for clarity)

Proxy SSRF and error-surface hardening gaps

Status: Closed as fixed on main

Context:

• Proxy middleware previously allowed broader error/internal surface area and looser upstream handling.
• Current main includes hardened proxy behavior in vite.config.js:
  • CCTV upstream URL no longer accepted from client query params.
  • Error payloads are sanitized.
  • OpenSky cache stores successful responses only.
  • OpenSky token refresh is coalesced.
  • GBFS/CCTV memory growth is bounded.

Validation target:

• vite.config.js

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NVG vignette edge color bleed

Status: Closed as fixed in current shader composite

Context:

• Earlier builds leaked original scene colors near the NVG tube edge.
• Current composite now masks NVG output with tube falloff before final blend, removing the color edge bleed.

Validation target:

• src/styles/surveillance.js

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Wildfires layer unavailable / static bundled snapshot

Status: Closed — live FIRMS integration shipped (2026-07-16)

Context:

• Wildfires (NASA FIRMS) were removed from runtime in v0.5.3, returned June 2026 as a bundled-snapshot layer (local-firms, 2026-05-25 data, ~58 MB in-repo), and were converted to live NASA FIRMS data on 2026-07-16: the /api/firms proxy merges three VIIRS NRT sources (trailing 24 h, 30 min cache, serve-stale-on-failure) and the bundled snapshot was deleted. Requires a free server-side FIRMS_MAP_KEY; without it the layer row reads "Needs FIRMS_MAP_KEY — add it in Provider Settings".

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Weather radar held out of the open-source release

Status: Closed — observed rain radar shipped (September 2026)

Context:

• Rain radar, Satellite clouds, Lightning density, Wind and Cyclone advisories are in the Weather group of Data Layers. Their current limits are listed under "Weather layers: coverage and meaning" above.