# Roadmap

What's being worked on, what's queued, and what isn't happening. "Later" is a
real list, not a graveyard — most of it is restocked from the `ponytail:`
comments in the source, each of which names a deliberate simplification and the
upgrade path out of it (`grep -rn "ponytail:" crates/`).

## Now

- **Web build (WASM)** — the viewer in a browser: radar, basemap, alerts and
  forecasts. Feeds that block cross-origin requests degrade rather than break,
  and native-only subsystems (audio, GPS, plugins, camera video) are compiled
  out.
- **HTTP server mode (`--serve`)** and a **Docker image**, so a machine on the
  shelf can answer questions about the weather without a display attached.
- **Home Assistant integration** — a custom component polling the server, with
  per-location sensors, an alert binary sensor and a radar camera.

## Next

- Publish the Docker image to a registry rather than asking people to build it.
- Persist settings in the browser build (`localStorage`), and audio, speech and
  live polling on the web where the platform allows it.
- GPU-side wind particle advection. The current layer rebuilds a CPU mesh each
  frame because that also works on WebGL2 — the note in `wind_draw.rs` marks the
  ceiling and says explicitly that the upgrade is *not* a compute shader.
- A radar snapshot as a desktop widget / conky-style output, reusing the same
  off-screen render the server's `/snapshot.png` uses.
- Register the `hookecho://` URL scheme on desktop, so shared links open the app
  the way they already do on Android.
- Paging for the WFIGS wildfire feed — today the request is capped, and the
  largest fires simply come first.
- Placefile `Image:` support: it is parsed and skipped today, waiting on a real
  file in the wild to use as a fixture.

## Later

- A nearest-N station picker for surface conditions instead of the single
  closest station, for when the closest one is stale.
- Per-marker point-scoped alert queries, so an advisory at the edge of a wide
  zone resolves for every saved location rather than for the radar site.
- True lunar ephemeris (Meeus) in place of the mean synodic phase, which is
  currently good to about half a day.
- A disk cache for alerts that survives restarts.
- Full effective-layer severe composite parameters, matching SPC mesoanalysis
  rather than the fixed-layer forms used now.
- Real per-device inset queries on Android instead of the conservative floors.
- Android settings import through the Storage Access Framework.

## Not planned

- **iOS.** No Apple hardware, no signing story, no honest way to test it.
- **Machine-learning nowcasting.** There is already a radar-advection nowcast
  layer; a trained model is a research project, not a feature.
- **Blitzortung lightning.** Their terms forbid application use. See
  [docs/DATA.md](docs/DATA.md).
- **A velocity mosaic.** Stitching velocity from separate radars is physically
  meaningless — each radar measures motion along its own beam.
- **A hosted service, accounts, or telemetry.** The app talks to public feeds
  from your machine; sync goes through your own Google Drive folder, and
  position sharing through your own relay if you set one.

Already shipped, and sometimes mistaken for gaps: animated HRRR wind particles,
the multi-day forecast, thirteen themes including Light, interactive vector
basemaps, offline chase packs, future radar, archive back to 1991, placefiles
with a layer manager, and settings sync.