PROCITY/web/assets/towns/README.md
m3ultra 6fffd19043 Lane A round 17: v3.2 the town-cache contract (published first) + plan_osm hardened for real data
The real-map scout (ledger #6), A's half. Scope fence held: NO new plan features, NO golden moved
(classic 0x3fa36874, gig 0xb1d48ea1, all three osm fixtures frozen). The scout proves the EXISTING
?plansrc=osm contract eats real geography.

- The town-cache contract (published FIRST — E builds build_towns.py to it). plan_osm.js gains
  validateTownCache() (authoritative {ok,errors,warnings}), registerTownCache(), a generatePlanOSM(..,
  {cache}) seam, and TOWN_CACHE_SCHEMA/MIN_TOWN_SHOPS(6)/MAX_TOWN_SPAN_M(5km). Shape: {schema,key,town,
  source,license,attribution,center{lat,lon},shops[{id,name,type,lat,lon,suburb?}]}. Home declared:
  web/assets/towns/<key>.json (+ README.md full spec). Documented in CITY_SPEC v3.2 + LANE_A_NOTES R17.
- plan_osm hardened: blank name -> registry label; the validator gates finite center/coords + a >=6-shop
  floor and warns on unknown-type(->opshop)/dup-id/span>5km. Proven vs thriftgod's real 2,828-shop
  city_source.json: boots a valid plan, 0 bad coords, 0 'undefined' names.
- selfcheck: a committed synthetic-adversarial contract suite (valid-messy caches boot + pass structural/
  gig; invalid reject; wide-spread warns; registry seam) + an auto-loader for web/assets/towns/*.json
  (validate -> suites -> pin per-town golden), empty and green until E lands caches. ALL GREEN 15277/15277.
- v4 charter risk list (LANE_A_NOTES R17): the MEGA-STRIP (unbounded bbox -> 11.6 km strip; town selection
  is E's real lever, warned >5km); sparse compact towns (2 km inner-Canberra held 6 shops); osm facades
  clear (rows 54 m apart) so R16's bias is a no-op on real towns.

E->A handshake: E drops a cache in web/assets/towns/, the selfcheck prints its golden, I pin it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 14:32:14 +10:00

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Real town caches — the home (web/assets/towns/)

Lane A owns the contract; Lane E fills this directory (ROUND17 ledger #6, the real-map scout).

Each real Australian town is one file, <key>.json, in the town-cache contract shape — the processed output of pipeline/build_towns.py (Overpass → dedupe/suburb/parody-name/seeded-hours). plan_osm.js marches it exactly like the checked-in fixtures in web/js/citygen/osm_fixture.js; the scout proves the existing CityPlan contract eats real data — no new plan fields, no new geometry.

The contract (authoritative: validateTownCache() in web/js/citygen/plan_osm.js)

{
  "schema": "procity-town-cache/1",
  "key": "katoomba_real",                    // matches the filename; distinct from the hand-made fixture key
  "town": "Katoomba",                        // display name
  "source": "osm",
  "license": "ODbL 1.0",                     // REQUIRED — OSM is ODbL
  "attribution": "© OpenStreetMap contributors",
  "generator": "pipeline/build_towns.py",    // optional provenance
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-16",                 // optional
  "center": { "lat": -33.71, "lon": 150.31 },// REQUIRED — the equirectangular projection origin
  "bbox": { "minLat": …, "minLon": …, "maxLat": …, "maxLon": … },  // optional metadata
  "counts": { "raw": 512, "shops": 96 },     // optional metadata
  "shops": [
    { "id": 318855426, "name": "Canty's Bookshop", "type": "book", "lat": -35.32, "lon": 149.18, "suburb": "Fyshwick" }
    // …
  ]
}

Hard requirements (else the cache is rejected and does not boot):

  • center.{lat,lon} finite numbers.
  • shops an array of MIN_TOWN_SHOPS (6) entries (up to 4 venues + the one openLate landmark + a spare).
  • every shop has finite lat/lon.

Absorbed as warnings (still boots): a blank name defaults to the type label; an unknown type remaps to opshop; duplicate ids; and — importantly — a cache spanning > 5 km warns "likely more than one town". A cache MUST be ONE compact town: an over-broad Overpass bbox marches into an unusable multi-km strip (the R17 mega-strip risk — a whole region of 2,918 shops became an 11.6 km avenue). Bound the query.

type should be a registry SHOP_TYPE (record/opshop/toy/book/video/pawn/milkbar/dept/stall); build_towns.py maps OSM shop=* tags to these (unknowns land on opshop).

Provenance (Lane E)

OSM data is ODbL. Ship attribution with the data: this README, a SOURCES.md (E's licence table), and the license/attribution fields on every cache. Cache the raw Overpass responses too so re-runs never re-fetch.

Wiring

  • plan_osm.generatePlanOSM(seed, key, { cache }) marches a cache directly; registerTownCache(key, cache) adds it to the runtime registry so osmTownKeys() and generatePlanFor(seed, 'osm', { town: key }) see it.
  • web/js/citygen/selfcheck.js auto-loads every *.json here: validates it, runs the full structural + gig suites across the hero seeds, and pins a per-town golden (unpinned → prints the value to paste).