Ledger #5 pull-forward. Nothing here touches a golden until A absorbs in R22; F tags v4.0-beta with
or without it. selfcheck ALL GREEN 154141/154141, synthetic 0x3fa36874 unmoved, all 22 byte-identical
on re-run.
- Curated 18 candidates on secondhand density first (heroes are the game), a walkable 2-3.4km centre,
and a national spread; 17 survived -> 22 towns, 1192 shops, 298 heroes, all 8 states/territories.
fitzroy is the mecca (40 heroes/160 shops, 2x katoomba); thin tail toowoomba/darwin (3 heroes) left
in as honest data -- A/Fable may drop them in R22.
- FINDING: the 3x-hero cap is a CURATION FILTER, not just a density knob. Wollongong had ~62 real
shops but 1 hero -> capped to 4 -> dropped by the >=6 floor. A town without a secondhand strip
cannot inflate into a retail strip; John's SUBTLE directive does quality control for free.
- Newcastle: my centre was wrong, not the town (CBD held 2 heroes; the strip is Hamilton/Beaumont St).
Re-centred: 2 -> 9 heroes, 8 -> 36 shops.
- BUG (mine, shipped R18, caught here): fetch_roads_raw had no query-comparison while fetch_raw did,
so re-centring refetched shops but silently reused the OLD CBD roads -> Hamilton shops seated against
a graph 2.5km away -> the town marched out with ZERO shops (surfacing as 32 bogus 'open-late
invariant' failures; ten other no-video towns passing is what proved it wasn't the open-late rule).
Fixed: the roads path now compares its query too -- the bbox lives in the query, so a re-centre must
invalidate BOTH snapshots. Newcastle rebuilt: 34 shops seated, openLate=1.
- Discipline: bounded bboxes, raw snapshots committed (shops+roads), C's §6 mapping, SUBTLE guardrails
(heroes never subsampled, texture 3x, 2392 drops counted), ODbL. Overpass rate-limits hard at pack
scale (batch 1 died on a fatal 504 after 25 retries) -- courtesy sleep 4s, two polite batches.
-> Lane A (R22): 34 goldens to pin (17 new towns x base+gig); sizes 12->160 shops load-test your
capacity/overflow fences. -> Lane B: index.json now lists 22 towns (your selector already reads it).
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Ledger #2 (E's half), built to C's LANE_C_PUB §6 table under John's SUBTLE directive.
- Widened fetch: C's tasteful staple list (shop=* + amenity=cafe per C's dagger note), mapped through
C's copy-paste table onto EXISTING registry types (no new archetypes). Guardrails honoured: no
vehicle/fuel/funeral/storage/industrial, no pure services. New raw snapshot per town (the fetcher
auto-refetches when the class list changes -- query recorded in each snapshot), committed like the first.
- SUBTLE by construction: secondhand HEROES never subsampled; texture capped at 3x heroes (top of C's
~2-3x band), over-cap towns seed-subsampled deterministically (sha256(townKey:osmId)) with every drop
counted in counts.textureDropped. Result 3.0x in all five: katoomba 20+60 (-4), newtown 18+54 (-156),
fremantle 20+60 (-81), bendigo 9+27 (-81), castlemaine 6+18 (-43). Density 6-21 -> 24-80 shops (3-4x).
- web/assets/towns/index.json (new, E-owned): {schema, generated, license, attribution, towns[{key, town,
state, shops, roads}]} -- B's selector can drop the REAL_TOWNS hardcode (hud.js:11).
- Deterministic (byte-identical re-run, 0 re-fetch). ODbL: SOURCES.md + per-cache license/attribution.
-> Lane A (absorb pass): (1) 10 expected golden re-pins -- the widening moves every real town's base+gig
golden (designed E->A handoff); synthetic 0x3fa36874 UNMOVED, fixtures frozen. (2) SEAM: index.json
trips selfcheck's town glob (selfcheck.js:467 takes every top-level towns/*.json as a cache) -- one-line
fix in your file: .filter(f => f.endsWith('.json') && f !== 'index.json'). Didn't touch selfcheck.js
(yours, you're mid-round in it); Fable spec'd the index at this path so the path stays.
-> Lane C: kept video_games -> video (absent from your §6 table; was already shipping as video pre-widening,
so the fallback would have regressed it to opshop). Same family, same target -- flagging for your table.
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Extend build_towns.py: bounded way[highway](bbox) out geom per town -> raw cached in-repo -> roads[]
in A's v2 contract ({id,kind,pts:[[lat,lon]]}, kind=raw OSM highway class). katoomba_real is now
schema v2 with 484 real streets (Bathurst Rd, Cliff Drive, ...). Fidelity cut (charter risk #4, flagged
to A): fetch every ROAD_KIND tier -> raw; EMIT the town street tier only, excluding service/track/
footway/path/steps/cycleway (1461 of 2506 Katoomba ways = bushwalking tracks/sidewalks/stairs/driveways).
A's lift builds a real town from it (verified): 484 streets -> 872 nodes/799 edges (main 232 side 531
arcade 36) -> 12 blocks, 20 lots, 3 venues (pub/band_room/rsl), 12 gigs. pickVenues lands venues on the
real graph (ledger #2 met).
FINDING for A (alpha failure-list, charter risk #3): on the real graph, spine posters overhang crossing
carriageways -- selfcheck kerb-clearance fails on 4 seeds (-1.6 to -2.5m; e.g. seed 20261990 poster 50 vs
edge 58 = -2.42m). Same class as A's R15/R16 corner-poster fix, now on real cross-street geometry. Owner:
A (pickVenues/POSTER_CLEAR on the real graph, the 'A again' harden step) -- my roads data is VALID (cache
validates; failures are plan-level poster placement). Golden settles after A's fix (pre-fix 0x6014a8e6).
ODbL: raw roads committed, SOURCES.md updated.
-> Lane A: katoomba roads live; harden the lift + resolve the poster finding + re-pin the golden.
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Ledger #4 (warm-up): publish.py --verify no longer false-flags non-procity_ published assets
(sit.glb, vintage-cash-register). It compares the _published.json name record against the depot's
full file list (fetch_depot_files) instead of a procity_ prefix filter; only OUR namespace flags as
unrecorded. --verify now: all 39 recorded assets live.
Ledger #6 (the scout): new pipeline/build_towns.py ports thriftgod build_city()'s Overpass route to
per-town caches in A's procity-town-cache/1 contract. 5 real compact AU towns under web/assets/towns/
(katoomba/newtown/fremantle/bendigo/castlemaine, 6-21 shops, spans <2.4km): bounded Overpass query ->
raw cached in-repo (re-runs never re-fetch) -> dedupe/suburb-fill/parody (trademarked chains only;
indie shops keep real OSM names)/type-map. Deterministic (byte-identical re-run, no RNG). ODbL:
SOURCES.md licence table + license/attribution on every cache. All 5 boot through the full
structural+gig suites (selfcheck 16596/16596 green; synthetic golden 0x3fa36874 unmoved). Overpass
fetch John-authorized (Standing #2).
-> Lane A: caches live under web/assets/towns/; pin the per-town goldens selfcheck printed (katoomba
0x61760542 newtown 0x95978b45 fremantle 0xee9fd09a bendigo 0x5e3e76a6 castlemaine 0xf1a628a1) +
feed through plan_osm. E->A handshake.
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