Each profile sample now carries the tallest building height within 80m
of the path point. The candidate-detail SVG renders these as a red
polygon stacked on top of the terrain so blockage from buildings is
visible alongside ridges. max_obstacle_m now reflects building tops too,
so the clearance label downgrades when buildings sit on the link.
Adds a per-cell building-clutter penalty so the algorithm down-ranks
spots in built environments where buildings on multiple sides
scatter/block signal regardless of which station you're aiming at.
Penalty = max_height_within_75m / 5 dB, capped at 6 dB. Path-clearance
already accounts for buildings ON the link path; this is the
"surrounded by stuff" signal.
Phase 2/3/5 of the building-blockage support:
* Parser streams csv.gz tiles into compact records (centroid, radius,
height) — keeps RAM ~32 B per polygon, drops -1.0-height entries.
* Index buckets records into 0.01° (~1 km) grid cells in a public ETS
table for concurrent reads; max_height_near/3 and records_near/3
scan only the 9 nearest buckets.
* Loader lazily parses any cached quadkey before a Calculate so the
scorer is terrain-only when tiles aren't on disk yet.
* Rover.PathTerrain now treats each path-sample obstacle as
terrain_elev + max_local_building_height, so blocked LOS through
recent construction actually reduces clearance.
* Selecting a candidate pushes a candidate_buildings event with the
buildings near each rover→station path; the hook renders them as
height-coloured circles (yellow <10 m, orange 10-30 m, red >=30 m)
with a tooltip showing height in meters.
Mix tasks don't run in production, so the orchestration lives in
Microwaveprop.Buildings.BulkFetch — callable from an attached iex on
the prod pod via:
iex> Microwaveprop.Buildings.BulkFetch.run(32.8, -97.0, 500)
Default 500 mi radius around DFW yields ~440 candidate quadkeys at
zoom 9; only those present in the MS dataset index (typically a few
hundred over CONUS) get downloaded. Concurrency 4, per-task timeout
3 min, results logged with downloaded/cached/failed/missing counts.
The mix.task is kept as a dev-only thin wrapper.
Phase 1 of building-blockage support: implements quadkey math (Bing/MS
tile encoding), looks up the MS dataset-links index for UnitedStates,
and downloads csv.gz quadkey tiles to /data/buildings (overridable via
:buildings_cache_dir). Index is cached 24h; tiles are written once and
reused. No path-analysis wiring yet — that's the next slice.
Prod logs showed road_proximity took 186 s on a single Calculate.
Req's receive_timeout only catches TCP idle, not slow streaming, so a
trickling Overpass response could not be cancelled. Wrap the call in a
Task.yield/shutdown deadline and cache successful results by 0.05°-rounded
bbox so adjacent Calculates skip Overpass entirely.
- Detail panel now reads as an aiming card: "Aim 220° (SW) · clearance +12 ft"
with the precise bearing in degrees, plus rover/obstacle elev on a second line
- Elevation profile labels swapped from min/max-of-profile to start (rover) and
end (station) elevations, since their positions in the chart now match
- Map draws a dashed indigo polyline from the candidate to each selected
station when a candidate is opened; cleared when the panel closes
Calculate occasionally hung in production for ~30s. Adds per-phase
timing logs to Compute.run so the slow step is visible in pod logs,
and trims the Overpass road-proximity request to a 10s server-side
timeout / 12s receive timeout (no Req retries) so a slow road API
fails soft to no road penalty instead of stalling Calculate.
- Local prominence: each cell's elevation vs. its 8-neighbor ring
(~1.3 km radius) feeds a small additive bonus so broad hilltops
rank above isolated SRTM voxels
- Road proximity: one Overpass call per Calculate fetches drivable
ways inside the bbox; cells beyond ~0.5 km of any road get a
light dB penalty, gated off in tests
For each (rover cell, fixed station) pair, sample SRTM along the
great-circle path and add a per-link dB bonus proportional to the
rover's elevation above the highest intermediate terrain. Rover spots
on hilltops with clear sight to multiple stations now rise to the top.
Also vendor Leaflet's layers control PNGs and copy them under
priv/static/assets/css/images/ on build so /rover stops 404'ing on
layers-2x.png.
