Add /api/v2/suggest and wire the location picker's search box to it as a
debounced type-ahead: top-5 place suggestions that tolerate a single-letter
typo (substituted, missing, or extra letter, or two adjacent letters swapped)
anywhere in the query, including the first character.
- backend/places.py: local place index built from a GeoNames cities dump
(downloaded once into data/geonames/, loaded in a background thread; the
app boots and serves without it). Exact-prefix matches rank first by
population, then names one edit away; a token vocabulary respells one
mistyped word against known place-name tokens ("pest seattle" ->
"west seattle") for retry against the upstream geocoder, which covers
neighbourhood-level places the dump lacks. THERMOGRAPH_CITIES picks the
dump (default cities1000).
- /suggest blends local and upstream results by population with an exactness
boost, so "Seatle" (a Cumbrian hamlet) can't outrank Seattle when the
query is one edit from the city, while "munchen" still surfaces Munich via
upstream (the index only knows English names). Upstream lookups are
memoized and skipped entirely when the index answers convincingly.
- mappicker.js: debounced (250ms) live suggestions with abort + sequence
guards against stale responses, arrow-key navigation, Enter-picks-highlight,
Escape dismissing the list before closing the overlay. Submit goes through
the same typo-tolerant endpoint.
- climate.geocode results now carry population (used for ranking).
Remove the US+Canada bounding box so every endpoint accepts any lat/lon.
The grading pipeline was already global-ready (ERA5 archive, timezone=auto,
day-of-year climatology), so opening it up is mostly deleting the guard —
plus the edge cases that only exist once the whole globe is in play:
- grid.py: snap() wraps longitude into [-180, 180) and clamps latitude, and
cell centers are normalized so the polar row and the cells straddling the
antimeridian always report valid coordinates to the weather/geocoding APIs.
snap() and from_id() now share one _cell() builder, making id round-trips
exact by construction (verified with a 300k-point global sweep).
- nav.js: neighbor-cell prefetch skips rows past the poles and wraps
longitudes across the dateline instead of sending out-of-range queries.
- Nominatim reverse geocoding requests accept-language=en so place labels
render in one script worldwide (matching the forward geocoder).
- mappicker: search suggestions are no longer filtered to US/CA, the
placeholder and default map view are worldwide.
- calendar: season filter labels flip for southern-hemisphere locations
(Dec-Feb shows as Summer); the underlying month groups are unchanged, so
saved filter selections keep meaning the same months.
Verified end-to-end on a scratch server: Tokyo and Sydney grade with real
labels, a Fiji cell on the antimeridian's east edge builds and serves warm
hits from the derived store, and prefetch=1 on a cold cell still answers
204 without spending weather-API quota.
* Picker map: smaller city labels, darker/bolder roads (split tile layers)
Split the CARTO Voyager basemap into two raster layers so label size and road
weight are independent: a labels-free base upscaled via tileSize 512 + zoomOffset
-1 (bold, prominent roads) plus a labels-only layer at natural size on top (small,
crisp city names). The darken/saturate filter now targets the base layer only
(.mp-base: brightness .92, contrast 1.12), deepening the roads while leaving label
text at full contrast.
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* Location label: show coordinates immediately, then resolve to place name
On selecting a location, write the raw coordinates to the location label right
away, so the user sees the picked spot instantly instead of a stale/blank label.
The existing post-fetch render already overwrites it with the reverse-geocoded
"neighborhood, city, region" string (data.place), so the label now reads
coords → place name live.
- app.js / calendar.js / day.js: set coords in the selection handler before the
fetch; the render/initOnce overwrite is unchanged.
- compare.js: show coordinates through the pending + loading states (instead of
"Locating…") so each chip's coords are replaced live by the place name once
scored.
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Follow-up to the picker restyle: use the colorful CARTO "Voyager" basemap in
both themes (the monochrome dark-matter tiles read as "no color"), render tiles
one zoom lower at 512px (tileSize 512 + zoomOffset -1, @2x for crispness) so
roads and city labels are noticeably larger, and add a saturate/contrast filter
on the tile pane to push the colors further.
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Replace the plain gray OpenStreetMap raster in the location picker with a
theme-aware CARTO basemap (no API key): sleek "dark matter" tiles under the
dark theme, colorful "voyager" tiles under the light theme, so the map
matches whichever is active. Swap Leaflet's default blue marker for an
accent-colored teardrop pin (the same glyph the Find button uses), and theme
the zoom controls + attribution to sit in the app's surfaces.
- mappicker.js: theme-aware CARTO tileLayer (retina, CARTO attribution);
L.divIcon "mp-pin" used for the marker
- style.css: .mp-pin styling, themed .leaflet-bar / attribution, map shadow
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