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Closes #1341.

  1. Docs match the constant. VehicleCoordinateUpdate header (and related comments) now describe snapBeyondMeters as 500 m / city-traffic (~50 km/h). Freeway buses near 60 km/h usually snap — that is intentional, not a motorway-speed promise.
  2. apply(from:to:on:) tests for .snap, .unchanged, and .animate (waits past the 0.8 s duration).
  3. Legacy TripViewController no longer teleports: same restore-then-apply pattern as TripFocusMapLayer / StopVehicleAnnotation.
  4. Short doc: docs/vehicle-coordinate-interpolation.md.

Test plan

  • VehicleCoordinateUpdateTests (8) green, including apply cases
  • Trip page: watch a city bus hop smoothly between polls
  • Large jump (or first fix) still snaps

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved vehicle marker movement between location updates. Short-distance movements now animate smoothly instead of teleporting, while larger jumps continue to snap to the latest location.
    • Prevented vehicle annotations from jumping unexpectedly when trip information is refreshed.
    • Removed stale vehicle markers when location data is unavailable, preventing pins from appearing at an incorrect default location.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance explaining interpolation, noise suppression, the 500-meter snapping threshold, and behavior when vehicle coordinates are missing.

…Away#1341).

Docs and tests now describe city-traffic tuning (~50 km/h), not motorway
speed. Add apply() coverage and route the legacy TripViewController through
the same restore-then-apply path as TripFocusMapLayer.
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The change documents the 500-meter snapping threshold, adds coverage for coordinate application outcomes, and updates TripViewController to preserve coordinates, remove annotations without locations, and avoid null-island pins.

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Vehicle interpolation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Coordinate threshold and apply coverage
OBAKit/Mapping/VehicleCoordinateUpdate.swift, OBAKitTests/Mapping/VehicleCoordinateUpdateTests.swift, docs/vehicle-coordinate-interpolation.md
The documentation defines the 500-meter snapping threshold and coordinate update branches. Tests cover snap, unchanged, and animated application outcomes.
Trip-screen coordinate restoration and missing-location handling
OBAKit/Trip/TripViewController.swift, OBAKit/Mapping/Layers/StopRouteFocus/StopVehicleAnnotation.swift, docs/vehicle-coordinate-interpolation.md
TripViewController restores the prior coordinate before applying a new location. It removes existing annotations without locations and skips new null-island annotations. Comments and documentation describe the behavior.

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Vehicle updates now remove unavailable locations and apply restored-coordinate updates, preventing stale or null-island pins. The remaining bounded risk is that animation timing and visible interpolation are not directly covered by the new test.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TripViewController
  participant VehicleAnnotation
  participant VehicleCoordinateUpdate
  TripViewController->>VehicleAnnotation: Save current coordinate
  TripViewController->>VehicleAnnotation: Assign tripStatus
  TripViewController->>VehicleAnnotation: Restore saved coordinate
  TripViewController->>VehicleCoordinateUpdate: Apply latest location
  VehicleCoordinateUpdate->>VehicleAnnotation: Animate or snap coordinate
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In `@OBAKitTests/Mapping/VehicleCoordinateUpdateTests.swift`:
- Around line 85-89: Update the vehicle coordinate update test around
VehicleCoordinateUpdate.apply to verify decision(from:to:) returns
.animate(duration: 0.8), and add an observable animation-state assertion while
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Comment on lines +85 to +89
// Linear 0.8s animation; wait past it before asserting.
try? await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(900))

#expect(abs(annotation.coordinate.latitude - nearby.latitude) < 0.00001)
#expect(abs(annotation.coordinate.longitude - nearby.longitude) < 0.00001)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Verify the animation contract, not only the final coordinate.

The test waits 900 ms and then checks the destination. It also passes if VehicleCoordinateUpdate.apply assigns the destination synchronously, so it does not verify animation or the 0.8-second duration. Assert that decision(from:to:) returns .animate(duration: 0.8) and use an observable animation state or test seam to verify the in-progress behavior.

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In `@OBAKitTests/Mapping/VehicleCoordinateUpdateTests.swift` around lines 85 - 89,
Update the vehicle coordinate update test around VehicleCoordinateUpdate.apply
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The core of this is good — I verified snapBeyondMeters is defined once as 500 and that "hops longer than 500 m snap" matches if meters > snapBeyondMeters, so the number and the condition are both right. The three new apply(from:to:on:) tests are worth having.

Two things to sort out first.

1. There's a behavior change in here that the PR presents as documentation.

In TripViewController, the old code let tripStatus's didSet write lastKnownLocation?.coordinate ?? (0,0) and land on the coordinate. The new code restores from unconditionally and only calls apply when to is non-nil. So when lastKnownLocation is nil the pin now keeps its previous real coordinate instead of going to null island — which means annotationsToShow.removeAll(where: { $0.coordinate.isNullIsland }) at line 525 no longer filters it, and the stale pin both stays visible and drags the showAnnotations zoom fit.

That may well be an improvement — a stale pin does beat a teleport to the Gulf of Guinea — but it's a user-visible change in a PR titled "align docs", it isn't mentioned in the body, and TripFocusMapLayer handles the same case differently by calling removeVehicle(). I'd like it either handled consistently with the layer, or called out explicitly and justified.

2. The diff deletes the rationale it simultaneously declares mandatory.

StopVehicleAnnotation.swift loses "Restore from before VehicleCoordinateUpdate.apply so a city-block hop interpolates instead of that didSet teleporting the pin", leaving a bare A kilometre-scale jump still snaps above a let from / self.coordinate = from pair with nothing explaining why they exist. Meanwhile the new docs/vehicle-coordinate-interpolation.md says callers "must restore the previous coordinate before VehicleCoordinateUpdate.apply" and lists that exact call site.

So the three sites are less consistent after a PR whose purpose is doc alignment. Please keep the rationale at the call site.

Smaller notes, no need to act unless you agree:

The doc says a 30 s poll at 60 km/h "is exactly 500 m, so freeway/express buses usually snap" — at exactly 500 m the comparison is >, so it animates. It's hedged enough to be defensible, and it's close to my own wording in #1341, so I'm not fussed.

#1341 is cited for the snap behavior in a couple of places, but that came from #1109/#1323.

The 900 ms sleep in the animate test doesn't buy anything — UIView.animate's closure runs synchronously and MKPointAnnotation.coordinate has no presentation-layer interpolation, so the assertion holds at t=0. The test still usefully proves the .animate branch writes at all; just drop the sleep.

The md file describes interpolate-vs-snap but never mentions ignoreBelowMeters, which is one of the three branches.

Drop the legacy trip pin when lastKnownLocation is missing instead of
keeping a stale coordinate, restore the apply-path rationale comment, and
document ignoreBelowMeters (OneBusAway#1387).
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Addressed the review:

  1. Behavior called out and aligned: when lastKnownLocation is nil, TripViewController now removes the vehicle annotation — same policy as TripFocusMapLayer.removeVehicle() — instead of keeping a stale real coordinate that skipped the null-island filter and dragged showAnnotations.
  2. Restored the “restore from before apply” rationale on StopVehicleAnnotation.
  3. Doc now covers all three branches (including ignoreBelowMeters); dropped the useless 900 ms sleep in the animate test.

This is still primarily a docs/threshold PR; the nil-location change is the intentional consistency fix for the behavior the previous revision introduced without naming it.

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