GEOPULSE — Changelog | Development History

V10.5 MAJOR Historical Expansion & Global Intelligence APR 2026

✦ New tour category: ▸ HISTORY with dedicated sidebar section
✦ Tour: 🪖 World War I (1914–1918) — 8 stops from Sarajevo to Versailles
✦ Tour: ⚔️ World War II (1939–1945) — 9 stops from Gdańsk to Hiroshima
✦ Both tours open with full overview: duration, cause, belligerents, and casualties
✦ Wikipedia thumbnail images on 15 key tour stops via Wikimedia REST API
✦ Images across 7 tours: WW1, WW2, F1, FIFA, Ring of Fire, Nuclear, Cold War
✦ Country Borders toggle — Natural Earth 110m boundaries via jsDelivr CDN
✦ 121 country name labels with zoom-dependent visibility (zoom 3–8)
✦ Global visitor counter — CounterAPI.dev replaces localStorage (offset: 1247)
● Flights layer: demo aircraft fallback when OpenSky API is rate-limited
◆ AUDIO button label added to tour narrate button for discoverability
◆ Tour image container with fade-in animation and caption styling
⚡ CSP updated: Wikimedia img-src, CounterAPI connect-src, jsDelivr CDN
⚡ TopoJSON client library for efficient border geometry conversion
● Total tours: 14 across 4 categories (Geopolitics, History, Science, Sports)

V10.4 MINOR User Feedback Widget APR 2026

✦ Floating feedback widget (💬 bottom-right corner)
✦ Interactive 5-star rating with hover effects
✦ Feature preference selector, wish input, and comment box
✦ Submit opens pre-filled Google Form — no login required
◆ GitHub Issues bug report link with pre-filled template
⚡ Config-driven: form URL and field IDs set in config.js

V10.3 MAJOR Tour Expansion & Audio Narration APR 2026

✦ 5 new guided tours: Chokepoints, Battery Race, Climate Frontlines, Water Wars, Formula 1
✦ Total: 11 interactive cinematic tours with 85+ educational stops
✦ Audio narration via Web Speech API — 🔊 toggle on briefing panel
◆ Categorized tour menu: Geopolitics / Science & Nature / Sports & Culture
◆ Color-coded category headers in sidebar
⚡ Zero-dependency narration — browser-native, no API keys, no backend

V10.2 MINOR Trump World Tour APR 2026

✦ New Guided Tour: "Trump World Tour — Power, Deals & Disruption (2025–2026)"
✦ 9 interactive stops: Washington → Canada → Greenland → Panama → Cuba → Venezuela → EU → Iran → Global Summary
✦ Fact-based geopolitical analysis of U.S. foreign policy shifts and global consequences
◆ Each stop auto-activates relevant layers (Regimes, Alliances, Conflicts, Cables)
◆ Distinctive orange-red (#ff6633) accent for tour button

V10.1 MINOR Webcam Overhaul & Intelligence Cleanup APR 2026

✦ Live Webcam system rebuilt — 18 real cameras worldwide
✦ 9 foto-webcam.eu snapshot cameras (Alps, Zugspitze, Feldberg/Wiesbaden, Innsbruck, Vienna, Salzburg)
✦ 9 YouTube channel embeds (Matterhorn, Kyiv, NYC, Tokyo, Paris, London, Beijing, Yosemite)
✦ Camera catalog data model with source type, provider, and tags
✦ Auto-refresh snapshots every 60 seconds
✦ Graceful offline fallback UI ("SIGNAL LOST" / "STREAM OFFLINE")
◆ Green markers for reliable snapshots, amber for YouTube streams
◆ CSP updated — foto-webcam.eu img-src + YouTube/foto-webcam frame-src
⚡ Removed defunct Intelligence panel (HTML, JS, CSS — ~200 lines dead code)
⚡ Removed fake SVG skyline webcam placeholders
● Updated manual, about page, and config to reflect current features

V10.0 MAJOR Educational Platform APR 2026

✦ Guided Tour Engine — 5 interactive cinematic tours with map flyTo animations
✦ Tour: 🌋 Ring of Fire — 6 stops covering Pacific seismic activity
✦ Tour: ☢️ Nuclear Legacy — 5 stops from Chernobyl to Bikini Atoll
✦ Tour: 🌐 Digital Silk Road — 5 stops following undersea cables
✦ Tour: 🛤️ Belt & Road Initiative — 6 stops mapping China's global infrastructure
✦ Tour: 🧱 Cold War to Reunification — 6 stops from Berlin Wall to NATO expansion
✦ First-Visit Welcome Overlay with tour launcher
✦ Wikipedia "Learn More" links on all volcano and radiation popups
✦ Open Graph + Twitter Card meta tags for social media sharing
✦ Social media advert assets (TikTok 9:16 story images)
◆ Tour briefing panel with cinematic reveal-after-flight UX
◆ Interactive "Click markers for details" hint with pulsing animation
● Fixed about.html blank page (CSP blocking inline scripts)
● Removed duplicate </footer> tag corrupting DOM
✦ This changelog page

V9.0 MAJOR Stability & Mobile Overhaul APR 2026

● Fixed critical JavaScript character escaping exceptions breaking map init
● Resolved git-mangled syntax holes in main.js
● Fixed critical map click syntax error causing dark screen
✦ Restored ISS tracking and AIS ship configuration
◆ Mobile navigation stability — fixed CSS pointer-event conflicts
◆ Sidebar restructured into 3 curated educational tiers
⚡ Removed legacy unreliable telemetry code

V8.8 MINOR Global Scenarios & About Page APR 2026

✦ Global Threat Scenarios preset system
◆ Updated About page to reflect V8.8 feature set
✦ AI Infrastructure Atlas concept (data centers + energy + cables)

V8.7 MINOR Artemis II Physics Engine APR 2026

✦ Artemis II high-fidelity orbital physics engine
◆ Unified version ID system across all pages
◆ Updated documentation and about page

V8.5 MINOR Mobile 9:16 & Artemis HUD APR 2026

◆ Mobile 9:16 portrait UI optimizations
✦ Artemis HUD with real-time physics and dynamic telemetry
● Footer text cleared from global ticker overlap
● Branding z-index and HUD collision fixes

V8.4 MINOR Artemis Telemetry & Geo-Hotspots APR 2026

✦ Live Artemis telemetry integration
✦ Realistic global geo-hotspot data

V8.3 MINOR Tsunami, Ships & Artemis HUD APR 2026

✦ Artemis HUD display
✦ 100 ships AIS tracking
✦ Tsunami alerts (USGS real-time condition parameter)
● Footer positioning fixes

V8.2 MINOR Tactical UI & Intel Popups MAR 2026

◆ Tactical UI overhaul
✦ Interactive intelligence popups on all markers
✦ Video feed restoration

V7.0 – 7.4 MAJOR Premium UI, Mobile Nav & News MAR 2026

✦ Unified mobile navigation system
✦ Live news ticker with RSS feeds
✦ Power outage monitoring layer
✦ Intelligence alert cards with severity color-coding (removed V10.1)
✦ Ocean SST map replacing night lights
✦ Solar storm index in Hazards menu
◆ Midnight Slate glassmorphism design system
◆ Hardware toggle switches
◆ Share Tech Mono typography
◆ Amber ticker color with adjusted speed
● Flight tracker persistence fix
● Cable popup with capacity, year, length, and owner data

V6.0 – 6.1 MAJOR Global Command Center MAR 2026

✦ Complete rebranding as "Global Command Center"
✦ Political regime maps (Freedom House)
✦ Undersea cable network visualization
✦ Data center layer (hyperscale locations)
✦ Nuclear power plant layer
✦ Iran-Israel/USA conflict zones
✦ Black Marble night lights
✦ Clickable city popups
✦ Intelligence anomaly scanner (removed V10.1)
◆ Menu redesign with collapsible categories
● Myanmar lat/lon fix that was blocking all layer inits

V5.0 – 5.6 STABILITY Mobile & Toggle Fixes FEB 2026

● MapLibre initial DOM mount lifecycle fix
● Mobile menu click-outside hook
● Touch event conflict between overlay and map canvas
● Asynchronous debounce locking for mobile toggle
● Duplicate DOM toggle listener eradication
● Critical JavaScript crash from unclosed try-catch
● Earthquake DOM toggle missing element fix
⚡ Cache busting and toggle default improvements

V4.0 – 4.8 MAJOR Mobile UI & Live Feeds FEB 2026

✦ Full mobile UI with responsive layout
✦ Solar terminator (day/night line)
✦ NASA FIRMS wildfire data integration
✦ Top 40 global city labels (dynamic zoom scaling)
✦ Webcam feeds (global CCTV streams)
✦ Local Python batch server for data aggregation
✦ Esri satellite overzoom interpolation
✦ Simulated global airspace (Lufthansa)
✦ USGS earthquake feed
◆ Master switch override for all toggles
● Webcam image source fixes
● Weather radar enhancements

V3.0 INITIAL Satellite Globe Edition JAN 2026

✦ Initial release — MapLibre GL satellite globe
✦ Weather radar overlay
✦ AIS ship tracking
✦ ISS real-time position
✦ Basic layer toggle system
◆ Dark tactical command center aesthetic