Emoji flags are font glyphs, not shapes — no way to resize, border, or
tone them down to fit this app's controlled, hand-drawn-icon look
(same reasoning the topbar readout already settled earlier this
session). Vendored flag-icons' pre-cropped square SVGs (MIT) instead,
framed in a small rounded-square badge — the same convention
icons.js's MAP_MARKER_ICON already uses for framing a glyph, not a new
visual language.
Mapterhorn (mapterhorn.com, Protomaps-affiliated) publishes pre-built
Terrarium-encoded terrain as PMTiles: a global planet.pmtiles (z0-12)
plus ~450 regional chunks (z13+). Same pmtiles extract --bbox=...
mechanism offline.pmtiles already uses, just against their files —
confirmed live against their real manifest and the documented
Interlaken example. Replaces fetching every individual tile ourselves
(even after this session's earlier concurrency fix, still tens of
minutes for a real region) with 1-3 extract calls plus a merge when
the bbox spans more than one chunk: seconds, not minutes.
Removes CONCURRENT_TILE_FETCHES, write_terrarium_mbtiles, tile_range,
lng/lat_to_tile_x/y, fetch_terrarium_tile, and the sqlite3 gem
entirely — none of it is needed once the tiles arrive pre-packaged.
dem.js's point-elevation lookup (shadow.js's terrain-shadow overlay)
hardcoded a 256px PNG tile assumption that Mapterhorn's 512px WebP
tiles would have silently broken — now reads the actually-decoded
tile's own size and mime type instead of assuming either.
The "Regenerate for current view" build was failing in production with
"could not run 'pmtiles'" — go-pmtiles was never actually installed
anywhere, just documented as something a developer runs by hand
locally (docs/development.adoc). Installs the static Linux binary from
go-pmtiles' own GitHub releases, architecture-matched via dpkg rather
than hardcoded amd64.
Verified the exact download/extract/exec sequence end-to-end outside
Docker (no daemon available in this sandbox to run a real build).
5th Overlays item, generated client-side from the same online Terrarium
DEM tiles Terrain shading already fetches (no offline fallback — the
plugin's DemSource has no public hook to route through the pmtiles://
protocol the offline basemap uses, so this quietly renders nothing
without a network, same as Radar/the Wikipedia layer).
A plain vector source/layer under MapLibre's own tile lifecycle, no
manual refetch-on-move code needed. Thresholds are the plugin's own
generic starting point, not yet tuned against real terrain. Labels
skipped for now (font-name matching across the online/offline styles'
own glyph sets adds real risk for a nice-to-have, not the actual ask).
Self-hosted Bold woff2 only (the one weight .topbar__brand renders at)
under public/vendor/national-park-typeface/ — a router-carved-signage
display face for the "MAPTOOL" heading, matching the uppercase/
letter-spaced treatment it already had. Everything else stays on the
system font stack; this is a wordmark swap, not a body-text one.
docs/nps-resources.adoc/third-party-notices.adoc updated to record it.
Home now fitBounds()s a country-wide bbox instead of resetting to
CENTER/ZOOM's Bratislava point, since Home resetting into the same
city you'd already be looking at wasn't useful.
The overview map is NPS's own overview plugin (npmap5-plugins, still
on an unmerged branch), vendored and converted from its UMD dist
build to a plain ES module. Patched one MapLibre API break found while
verifying it: the plugin reads map.transform (public in the MapLibre
~2.4 it targets) to relax the inset's polar pan limit; MapLibre 6 (this
app's vendored version) no longer exposes .transform at all, so it
threw on load. Guarded to skip that cosmetic adjustment when absent
instead.
Two things pulled in from github.com/nationalparkservice/npmap5-plugins:
- A "Home" button (public/vendor/npmap-home-button/, NPS's own MapLibre
control) pinned to the app's CENTER/ZOOM, sitting top-left on the map. Now
that the URL hash permalink can open the map at any view, "current view"
and "the default view" aren't the same thing anymore, so a quick way back
to the default is worth having.
- npmap5-plugins bundles a newer, actively-maintained version of the same
NPS symbol-library already used for POI_ICONS (confirmed by its
maintainer to be the designated replacement for the older standalone
repo: nationalparkservice/npmap5-plugins#4), with a much larger icon
vocabulary and a simpler CC0 (public domain) license. All 25 icons
already in use came back byte-identical from the new source, so this
just repoints their attribution — but it also has icons the old repo
didn't: `forest` (POI_ICONS) is now the official "wilderness" pictogram
instead of hand-drawn, and three of the five previously icon-less
Services/Activities tags (wifi, mobile data coverage, winter/snow
camping) now have real icons too. Only bakery and vehicle wash still
have no NPS equivalent.
Remove osmand-style.js (the per-layer color-patching approach) and its
docs entirely — back to the plain OpenFreeMap "liberty" style online,
and protomaps-themes-base's stock theme offline as the base.
Offline maps previously had no text labels at all: the
protomaps-themes-base layers() call never passed a lang option, which
is required to include its label layers. Fixed, backed by vendored
Noto Sans Regular/Italic/Medium glyph PBFs (ranges 0-255 and 256-511
only — Basic Latin + Latin-1 Supplement + Latin Extended-A, enough for
accented Central European place names; other scripts won't render
offline). Verified against the actual offline.pmtiles vector layer
schema that the name/name:en/script fields this expects are present.
Also nudge a handful of OFFLINE_THEME color roles (background, water,
wood, buildings, the two road-importance tiers) towards the online
style's actual palette (sampled from its style JSON) so switching
Online/Offline doesn't look like two different apps — deliberately
partial, not the removed full recolor.
Replace Leaflet/raster tiles with MapLibre GL JS: an online OpenFreeMap
style and an offline style built from a local PMTiles archive via
pmtiles.js and protomaps-themes-base (no glyphs/labels offline by
design, see docs/architecture.adoc). Frontend libraries are vendored
locally rather than loaded from a CDN so the app keeps working with no
internet access.
Also add an animated RainViewer precipitation radar overlay (toggle,
play/pause, scrub slider), matching the default time window of the
weather-radar-card Home Assistant integration.
randy