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* Add worldwide Terminal colour and font options with crisp network overlays * Resolve Terminal entry and CSS from the build manifest * Apply Terminal-specific defaults and preserve other view preferences * Keep smooth traffic on its canvas and diagnose hidden-route repaint * Synchronize route visibility and finish the still-frame handoff * Recover Terminal terrain graphics and retain clear scope and geography * Hold style writes during graphics recovery and rebuild retained overlays * Initialize map indexes before load consumers * Compare Terminal terrain pixels before and after context recovery * Release terrain resources before graphics context replacement * Map road paint to its independent Terminal colour * Keep terrain stacks cached across route visibility changes * Normalize bundled font licence whitespace
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CartoLite delivery roadmap
Updated 18 October 2026. Current audit: end-to-end UI/UX review. The older roadmap is preserved as a dated record; its Planned labels and build-size caps are not current instructions.
Previously verified release baseline
Canada 0.17.4, Worldwide 0.8.5, Canada Android 1.1.2. Already shipped: shared appearance and six route presets; cinematic effects and quality/motion controls; optional Map and Netgraph 3D; buildings/topography; scoped ten-second Follow; region layout/dragging/filtering and live-only routes; compact phone navigation; Terminal with improved geographic detail and bright packet glyphs; Canada Labs and native Android navigation/recovery. Worldwide has key-free maps, AMD64/ARM64 images and version-matched installer files. Hard build-size caps are removed; runtime/performance/privacy/security gates remain.
The separate unfinished reliability work is not part of this shipped baseline. It must be reviewed against current main before integration, preserving the new UI.
Phases
| Phase | Status | Deliverable | Exit condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Everyday navigation and recovery | Delivered | UI01–UI06/UI15: live search refresh, dialog Back/Escape, quiet dismissible map notices, actionable empty Netgraph, reachable Follow actions, stable Labs feedback and this reconciled roadmap. Released in Canada 0.17.3 / Worldwide 0.8.4. | Baseline reproduction; focused tests pass without weakening assertions; full Actions gates; reviewed paired PRs; exact images, qualified Canada deployment and Worldwide installs. |
| 2. Controls, discovery and explanations | Delivered; delivery status | UI07/UI08: relevant per-view controls (including a true High-quality override in Labs), consistent visible help, clearer active filters and route/live/observer-only explanations. Silent voice browsing and reliable immediate mute. | Keyboard/Back/focus, 320px/short landscape, enlarged text, sound opt-in and no duplicate feed/layout reset. |
| 3. Animation and visual clarity | Active: Terminal customization | UI09/UI10: semantic Terminal network ink, dense-label priority, purposeful live emphasis, consistent ground/perspective behavior and measured sustained quality. Review each Labs scene independently. | Fixed-time synthetic GPU/Canvas/audio comparisons; all themes/presets; terrain/buildings/date-line/context loss; unchanged 4k-node/7k-route and responsiveness gates. |
| 4. Recovery and release hardening | Planned integration | UI11/UI12: reconcile the separate retained/freshness/clock/region-loading work; clear development-tool advisories through existing dependency PRs; extend browser/accessibility coverage. | Conservative topology/privacy; real reconnect/failure scenarios; exact native images and checkpoint-preserving anonymous installs. No unrelated branch resets or local builds. |
| 5. Optional additions | Planned | UI13/UI14: named local views, public-only share links, bounded role/recent/in-view Find filters, EN/FR Canada chrome and worldwide locale/units. Approved extra tile providers remain a separate configuration decision. | Demonstrate a useful task, reversible saved settings and explicit data/coverage limitations before broadening the UI. |
Scope and validation
- Both editions: Map, Netgraph, Terminal; layers, themes/presets, Find, inspectors, Follow, sound, status/error/empty states, keyboard/touch, suspension and recovery.
- Canada only: region registry, Packet Pond, Firefly Meadow, Mesh Loom, Little Mesh Villages and Android. Do not import these product features into Worldwide.
- First package changes hosted UI only; the existing signed Android app receives it without a new APK. Keep original identity/certificate for any future native release. Physical-device testing remains optional by owner instruction, and must never be claimed from emulator evidence.
- All builds/tests/browser artifacts run in Actions with synthetic fixtures. Keep the scratch, non-root, read-only container and public API v2 unchanged.
- Runtime performance and privacy are release gates. Artifact sizes are reports. Historical links remain still; actual live packets retain timing and meaning.
Status rules and delivery
Planned means not implemented. Active means work underway. Implemented means source and tests exist; it is not deployment proof. Delivered requires reviewed merged code, exact passing main artifacts, release checks and the applicable runtime/installation evidence. Record the paired PRs and release manifests for each phase; private operational records hold target/backup/restore observations.
Phase 1 review: Canada PR 102 and Worldwide PR 33. The initial commit is a deliberate failing baseline before fixes, not a release candidate.
Phase 1 was delivered on 17 October 2026: Canada 0.17.3 and Worldwide 0.8.4. Canada's exact-main CI passed 224 frontend and 321 browser cases; its 161 deployed browser checks passed without retries. Three live observations over 369.4 seconds confirmed advancing traffic/checkpoints and zero drops/restarts after an encrypted backup and isolated restore. That exact tested image was deployed and qualified.
Worldwide's exact-main CI passed 198 frontend and 273 browser cases, including native anonymous AMD64/ARM64 installs and checkpoint-preserving upgrades. One existing basemap startup wait retried; all 64 new UI cases passed without retries. Published checksums, provenance and screenshot hashes were verified for both editions. Product pages were updated and checked live. The existing Android 1.1.2 APK is unchanged; physical-device acceptance is not claimed. Phase 2 implementation follows below; phases 3-5 remain planned.
Phase 2 implementation
Canada 0.17.4 / Worldwide 0.8.5 add relevant per-view Display controls, reachable Help, visible Netgraph filter scope with a scoped clear action, silent previous/next voice browsing and immediate keyboard mute. Canada Labs restores explicit High quality after automatic economy. Pending browser audio resumes cannot undo mute. The new Find filters remain an optional addition; existing Find recovery is retained.
The linked release record carries final validation and delivery status. This versioned roadmap records the source implementation; publication alone is not proof of a healthy deployment. The release notes distinguish these stages.
Next package: Terminal customization
Target Canada 0.18.0 / Worldwide 0.9.0. Add a compact Terminal options editor inside Display with BBS, Amber, Green, CGA, EGA and Cel-shaded presets. Provide separate semantic colours for geography, traffic, nodes, labels and interface, colour-picker/hex/HSL sliders, independent map brightness, live glow and typography. Keep a readable reset/editor surface even for low-contrast custom palettes.
Convert geography before drawing the existing network layers. Preserve solid route cores, source topology, hit geometry and packet/audio timing. Offer Braille, ASCII, pixel blocks or flat cel-shaded geography, and character or smooth packets. Keep bounded sampling, quality/reduced-motion behavior, fallback and context recovery. Fonts are bundled locally with their licences and only loaded by Terminal.
Migrate legacy phosphor/glyph/grid preferences; save the new profile separately and synchronize Terminal tabs. Existing Map/Netgraph styles, layers and sound remain. Actions must cover all presets, arbitrary colour separation, mobile bounds, font loading, keyboard input, migration/reset, cross-tab behavior, unchanged live timing, context recovery and the existing scale/privacy/installation gates. Exact-image release and Canada qualification follow passing paired reviews. The remaining phase 3 Labs/dense-label/terrain audit and phases 4-5 remain planned.
Owner-selected Terminal defaults (18 October): routes/live/heatmap/labels/roads/ buildings on; clusters/regions/Topo/3D off; 15-minute routes, 15% Topo shading; BBS/ANSI fine Braille, Spectacle, Complete, High, system motion, standard text and Neon routes. Terminal layer/display settings now use separate storage from Map/Netgraph, while existing Terminal custom profiles and sound choices persist.
Supplemental visual audit
The owner-supplied 15-page visual audit adds A01–A15, separate from this audit's UI identifiers. The follow-up prioritizes a measured selected-node/inspector layout and complete duration labels after the Terminal package, then scope handoff, overview/selection clarity and control copy. These findings remain planned until reproduced and verified on current code.