The National Park Service frames its own map symbols (the icons already
vendored in for POI categories) in a rounded square, not a pin — pairing a
pin shape with NPS-style pictograms looked like two mismatched icon
conventions. Switched the marker to a rounded square to match.
This also simplifies the placement code: a pin has to anchor at its tip, so
the category glyph on top needed an offset computed from the pin/glyph
geometry to land in the pin's head. A square has no tip — both the badge and
the glyph layer just center directly on the coordinate with no offset math
at all.
Colored circles for waypoints looked too similar to a base map style's own
small circular POI icons, so uploaded POI data blended into the map instead
of standing out. Switched the marker shape to a pin/teardrop (reusing the
existing WAYPOINT_ICON path, filled instead of stroked) — no base map style
uses that shape for its own points, so it reads immediately as "your data".
Anchored at its tip, the standard map-pin convention, rather than centered
on the coordinate.
Also swapped the hand-drawn category glyphs for the National Park Service's
own map symbols (github.com/nationalparkservice/symbol-library, BSD
licensed, forked from Mapbox's Maki) for the six categories it covers —
professional, purpose-built pictograms beat ad-hoc "fuel pump"/"picnic
table" line art. `forest` has no NPS equivalent and stays hand-drawn.
The glyph now sits in the pin's head rather than centered on a flat dot,
which needed real geometry (both layers anchor to the same point, so the
offset is the gap between where the pin's head-center ends up and where the
glyph's own visual center already sits) rather than the old anchor="center"
zero-offset placement.
A park4night/OsmAnd POI export (e.g. a p4n2gpx area export) tags every
waypoint with a category and a per-category color/icon in its <extensions>
block, all of which was previously thrown away — every waypoint rendered as
the same plain red dot, unreadable once a file has a few thousand of them.
Maptool::Gpx now captures category/color/icon (waypoint_style), matched by
namespace URI rather than local element name: a p4n2gpx file carries both
<osmand:icon> and <locus:icon> side by side, and REXML strips prefixes from
Element#name, so both report as just "icon" — matching on that alone was
silently picking the (useless) Locus drawable path instead of the OsmAnd
category key. Regression test added for this.
On the map: waypoints are colored by category (falling back to the plain
track color for anything uncategorized), a small hand-drawn icon set
(public/js/icons.js's POI_ICONS, rasterized to SDF sprites at runtime) draws
a glyph on top for the categories it covers, the points source is clustered
so a dense export collapses into count bubbles instead of a solid blob, and
a legend in the side panel lists whichever categories are currently visible.
Splitting each file's GeoJSON into a lines source and a points source
(rather than one mixed source with a geometry-type filter per layer) was
needed for clustering, since MapLibre's cluster support only understands a
source made entirely of points.
GPX tracks were silently failing to render for large real-world files:
point_extensions used REXML's "extensions//*" XPath, and the // descendant
axis costs low-single-digit milliseconds per call regardless of subtree
size. Run once per point, that's negligible on small files but ~30s on a
real 8000-point track — long enough to hit a proxy timeout in production,
so the file just never appeared with no error. Replaced with plain
recursive child traversal (~40x faster on the same file, confirmed
29.9s -> 3.16s); test_parsing_many_points_with_extensions_stays_fast
guards against reintroducing it.
Also adds support for <rte> routes (not just <trk> tracks and <wpt>
waypoints), sharing the track/route conversion logic via a new
line_feature helper. Routes get their own "route" kind and a dashed
ROUTE_ICON in the file tree so the type is visible at a glance.
A Gmail-watching Apps Script (documented in docs/deployment.adoc) posts
the session ID from each LiveTrack email to a new webhook, which stores
it in data/livetrack.json; a new sidebar panel lists what's been
received.
Each tree entry now shows a small waypoint/track icon based on a
cheap substring check for <wpt>/<trk> (Maptool::Gpx.kinds) rather than
a full REXML parse, since re-parsing a several-thousand-waypoint file
on every tree fetch would make the panel noticeably slower to open.
Also fix a real drop-target bug: .gpx-tree had no flex:1, so a
short/empty tree left blank panel space below it that wasn't part of
the drag & drop target — dropping a file there silently did nothing.
Restructure the map controls from MapLibre corner buttons into a left
sidebar of icons with flyouts/panels (radar, GPX, GNSS), matching
OsmAnd's layout more closely:
- Base map and GPX selection are now full-height side panels docked
next to the sidebar (not small dropdown flyouts or a right-docked
panel), opening/closing exclusively via a small shared event bus
(panels.js) so only one is ever open at a time.
- The GPX panel's upload/new-folder controls are now icon buttons in
the header instead of an always-visible dropzone and form; dragging
a GPX file onto the tree, a specific folder, or straight onto the
map itself all upload it.
- New: Maptool::GpsdClient (lib/maptool/gpsd_client.rb) streams live
GNSS fixes from a local gpsd daemon over Server-Sent Events
(/api/gnss/stream) to a marker on the map (public/js/gnss.js) — one
background gpsd connection shared by every browser tab.
- The online map style (public/js/osmand-style.js) is now styled to
resemble OsmAnd's own rendering, applied to both the online and
offline (PMTiles) styles.
Also adds a GeolocateControl (browser geolocation) next to the zoom
controls.
randy