future directions (v0.3 and beyond)

[abc8747]

#42 will be focused on bug fixes and stabilisation

v0.2.1 (first automated release)

• tangram_airports fail to load properly #46, tangram_core cannot install with Python 3.14 #47, tangram_core cannot be released to crates.io #48, npm release: @open-aviation/tangram-core #49, Missing description in some readme.md files #50
• Vendor channel #57
• docs(install): how to install corepack npm install -g corepack
• fix(channel): use proper tracing spans
• tangram release strategy #45 (awaiting Trusted Publishers setup on xo side)
• fix(jet1090): when /sensors return 502, silently ignore instead of crashing
• perf(core)!: do not query plugin.json individually, amalgamate on the python side
• docs: which events can be listened to
• configurable plugin position order in sidebar and topbar
• map: add controls to reset pitch and bearing
• map: allow_bearing, allow_pitch, min_zoom, max_zoom, max_pitch
• collapsible sections for different plugins
• [breaking change] multi-selection
• fix: clicking on aircraft sometimes deletes the entire layer, possibly due to icon cache and deckgl diffing
• experimental Tangram globe plugin #65 by @amorfinv

v0.3

• make it easier to initialise heavy resources (databases) at startup in the core, and access it in the plugins
• python 3.14 support (blocked on Built releases for Python 3.14 ecmwf/eccodes-python#142)
• render aircraft in 3d (pass z coordinate and set billboard: false with curtain, on by default, configurable)
• coloured trajectories with oklch (off by default, can be switched to different variables, e.g. altitude, tas, vertical_rate etc.)
• unified search bar (across airports, jet1090, ship162...)
• programmatic tangram launch so one can access redis_client easily
• spawn arbitrary data sources (see Plugin for exploring historical data #70)
• fix windows support (fix: issues on windows + bdist wheels missing dist-frontend #99)
• switch ship162 to f64 and milliseconds

v0.4

• fix: chart x axis doesn't show timestamp properly
• fix(jet1090): chart twitches on update -> disable chart animation, replace with blinking svg?
• fix(trajectory): great circle ghost point does not move, and static line does not move with aircraft updates (weird reactivity issue)
• dark mode (off by default)
• allow full customisation of the basemap (allow specifying to the path of style.json in tangram.toml)
• settings menu + reactive settings
• perf: eliminate frontend loading blocking
• purge tangram_history periodically (ideally more granular - a frontend plugin, REST API or CLI command to invoke the DELETE .. WHERE date < '...')

v0.5

• timeline widget + playback
• inter-plugin: communication on the frontend with javascript CustomEvents (e.g. when the user clicks on an aircraft, how can another plugin retrieve the trajectory from tangram_history, or alternatively through tangramApi.registerCommand? see Plugin for exploring historical data #70 (comment))
• microfuel for fuel estimation (out-of-tree)
• inter-plugin: how can one plugin render might a component WITHIN a component of another plugin?
• inter-plugin: how to amalgamate aircraft data from different data sources? (e.g. adsb.lol + jet1090 + ...)
• stabilise out-of-tree plugin support (see https://github.com/xoolive/traffic/tree/master/tangram)
• enhancement(jet1090,ship162): table of all entities
• stats (Include metrics in decoding xoolive/jet1090#478 with backward compatibility if no stats emitted)
• enhancement: vatsim
• enhancement: msg/sec (wait until @xoolive done with some refactoring)

v0.6 onwards

• slash commands in search bar (wait until air traffic simulator is ready @junzis, might have to figure out multiplayer support and proper authentication)
• feat(weather): variables temperature, geopotential, wave height etc.
• feat(weather): show wind speed and direction on hover over map
• fix(weather): do not hardcode maximum wind speed
• fastmeteo for historical playback (out-of-tree)
• move tangram_jet1090 and tangram_ship162 into respective repositories
• perf: unify arrow ipc in the frontend instead of json
• proper containerisation (podman networks, apt proxy)
• consolidate repeated history_... configuration across tangram_{jet1090|ship162}

  tangram/packages/tangram_history/rust/src/lib.rs

  Lines 65 to 80 in 0799e56

  	// NOTE: right now we do a super convoluted way to get plugins to control
  	// history. for each plugin, they:
  	// 1. define *flattened* `history_*` in dataclasses AND rust structs
  	// 2. which are then parsed by Pydantic TypeAdapter on the python side
  	// 3. before manually constructing this struct in rust.
  	//
  	// one solution would be to directly expose this struct with `pyo3(signature)`,
  	// but:
  	// - it is unclear how to make pyo3-exposed objects compatible with pydantic
  	// TypeAdapter: https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic/discussions/8854
  	// - for some reason pyo3-stubgen has linking issues when generating the .pyi:
  	// https://github.com/Jij-Inc/pyo3-stub-gen/issues/161 (not exact the same
  	// but similar)
  	//
  	// so for sadly we have to accept manually duplicating `history_*` in all plugin
  	// configs.

• fix(globe): bounding box messages are not updated when on map dragging: icons can be rendered through the globe with cullMode: 'none'
• fix(globe): icons are flipped 180° (maybe something with billboard?)

[xoolive]

Will merge v0.2 for now, here are the remaining unticked items:

• fix: /websockets sometimes not being initialised at all, maybe something weird in channel (unable to reproduce) xo: I found that sometimes empty messages are sent and then fail to deserialize here | abc: should be fixed in a series of commits https://github.com/open-aviation/channel/compare/35f05d12c1518665d8eea273b8cc6feed69a1a81..2841c55d067238db1eba931a80db4891ebaa5332
• fix: when sending bbox along with the selected entities, only the entity id itself is insufficient.

[abc8747]

• remove https://github.com/open-aviation/tangram/tree/main/packages/_jet1090_legacy (we may want to keep Timeline.vue for future reference)
• to truly support out-of-tree plugins, use peerDependencies instead of the current hack:

  tangram/tsconfig.json

  Lines 19 to 31 in c5cff83

  	// HACK: for some reason specifying `peerDepedencies` in each package
  	// doesn't work so we just override it for now
  	"paths": {
  	"vue": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/vue"],
  	"maplibre": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/maplibre"],
  	"@deck.gl/core": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/@deck.gl/core"],
  	"@deck.gl/layers": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/@deck.gl/layers"],
  	"@deck.gl/mapbox": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/@deck.gl/mapbox"],
  	"@deck.gl/extensions": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/@deck.gl/extensions"],
  	"@deck.gl/geo-layers": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/@deck.gl/geo-layers"],
  	"lit-html": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/lit-html"],
  	"rs1090-wasm": ["./packages/tangram_core/node_modules/rs1090-wasm"],
  	}

  see npm release: @open-aviation/tangram-core #49

[amorfinv]

Hi, I played around made a tangram_globe plugin to change the projection from mercator to globe. I saw that it is in the nice-to-have list, so thought you would be interested.

Unfortunately, there is a known issue with deck.gl + mapbox where icons and text do not render correctly. Someone made a nice illustration of the issue here. I will keep an eye out to see if that gets fixed.

-Andres

[abc8747]

@amorfinv Nice! I played around with the reproducer repository and changed it so billboard: false (since we need it for the aircraft icons in 3D to render correctly), but there seems to be another odd bug where the text is flipped:

And indeed when dragging the globe, the text disappears, but it does seem to reappear on the backside:

I will keep an eye on the issue as well and maybe take a stab at it next Tue/Wed