The schemas had no spec of their own. The two things worth pinning are the
ones the feature rests on: the anchor is a position and never an id, so a
fraction or a negative is not a leg of anything; and the batch route's
track has three states, because absent and null mean different things to a
day that already follows a line.
The vias already made the day follow the road; nothing said which road. After a
reload the badge could only say "shaped by hand", and re-fitting after the stops
changed meant finding the track again by eye.
One row per day, written in the same transaction as the chain it describes: a
day claiming to follow a road whose vias never landed would be worse than a day
claiming nothing. Three states rather than two, which is why the field is an
object and not an id — absent leaves whatever the day followed alone, null says
it follows nothing, an object records the road it now takes. A bare nullable id
could not tell "do not touch this" apart from "forget it", and a hand-dragged
via on the same day must not wipe the label.
The foreign key is the point: delete the imported track and the label cascades
with it, so no day is left claiming to follow a line nobody can see. The vias
stay, because they are the drive.
Both write paths check that the place is a track of this trip before it becomes
a label — permission alone would let another trip's place id, or an ordinary
place, become a name that can never be drawn.
Also clears three reliability findings the scanner raised on this branch: two
default sorts given an explicit comparator, and a trailing-slash regex the
scanner is right to call backtracking, walked instead.
The single-via route is right for a detour dragged by hand and wrong for
anything that derives its anchors from a line. Pinning a day onto a recorded
track or a signed scenic road means a couple of dozen points, and one request
each re-routes the entire trip once per point, spaced by the routing host's own
rate limit — twenty anchors would spend half a minute drawing routes nobody
asked to see.
replace_legs names the legs to clear rather than taking a flag for the day, and
that is the whole difference: a traveller who bent two legs by hand and then
adopts a scenic road for a third has not asked to lose the two.
The tools follow in the same change, as parity requires. Undoing a detour picks
this up too, where the vias of one leg were deleted one request at a time.
The road-trip addon's second half: the parts that let a planned drive be
argued with rather than only read.
Reshaping. A via records which stop it follows by position, and that position
is resolved fresh every time the day is routed — so inserting, reordering or
removing a stop moved the ground under every via after it, and the drive
silently snapped back to the road it had been steered away from while the
handle still sat on the map where it was left. The correction is computed
against the day as it stands and written with the same change, in one
transaction: a half-applied re-anchoring mixes two numbering schemes in one
day. The one judgement that needs geometry — which half of a split leg a via
belongs to when a stop lands in the middle of it — is measured on the road
actually driven, so a fuel stop added to a bent leg keeps the bend on the side
it belongs to.
Alternatives. OSRM answers most long legs with exactly one route, which read as
"there is no other way" when a perfectly good slower road existed. When it
offers nothing, the same drive is asked for again without the motorway, and
failing that without the tolls — one question at a time, stopping as soon as
one lands. The offer says what it is rather than how much slower.
Stops along the way. Everything the corridor search can find is a pause, not a
destination: fuel, charging, rest areas, campsites, food and sights all sit
inside the leg they were found on, carry their own colour and icon, and are
left out of every stop count. That colour is defined once and read by the rail,
the corridor list, the map pin and the picker — and it replaced the chains'
logos, which turned a corridor full of petrol stations into a row of
advertisements and left the brands with no logo on file looking like something
else entirely.
How long a stop takes was readable in the rail and writable nowhere; new places
were given an invented hour that nobody had entered. It is now set from the
rail, cleared as a zero because the update statement folds a null into "leave
it alone", and new places start with nothing.
Both columns are rebuilt on one type scale, anchored to the day plan's own
sizes so switching tabs does not change the size of the text beside it. The
rail reads as trip totals, day cards and a chain of stops with the drives
between them; the corridor column as what to look for, how the search is
getting on, and what it found. Six category pills over three lines became one
dropdown, which is the space the results wanted.
Also: the offered routes are framed on the map when the picker opens (`fitKey`
carries no coordinates and each renderer reads it as "the selected day"), road
trip mode does not cluster at all so the whole drive stays readable zoomed out,
and the drive-time labels finally render in the app's own typeface instead of
Leaflet's Helvetica. All of it in both renderers.
Maurice