trails/openspec/changes/elevation-profile-hardening/tasks.md
Ullrich Schäfer 990bbaa99e
feat(gpx): elevation cleaning primitives (despike + hysteresis totals)
Task group 1 of elevation-profile-hardening. New pure module
elevation-clean.ts (not yet wired — group 2 does that):

- despike(points): interpolates out isolated peak/pit spikes (opposite-sign
  slope outliers both exceeding MAX_SLOPE_PERCENT=100); steep monotonic
  terrain (same-sign) is never touched; per-segment, no cross-gap interp.
- filteredTotals(points): hysteresis ascent/descent (NOISE_THRESHOLD_M=5)
  that suppresses sub-threshold jitter, returning {gain,loss,gainRaw,lossRaw}.
- cumulativeFilteredTotals(points): running filtered arrays for per-day
  splits (day total = cumulative[end] − cumulative[start]).

DESIGN NOTE for review: the spec's task 1.2 says the zero-filtered
fallback should "report raw", but the raw sum-of-deltas re-inflates the
very jitter we remove (a ±2 m wobble sums to several metres) — directly
contradicting task 1.4's "±2 m jitter → 0 totals". Resolved toward the
stated goal: fall back to NET change (end−start), so flat wobble reads ~0
while a genuine small net climb still surfaces. gainRaw/lossRaw still
expose the raw sums.

Verified: gpx typecheck+lint clean, 108/108; full pnpm test 11/11.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-14 00:46:13 +02:00

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1. Cleaning primitives

  • 1.1 Create packages/gpx/src/elevation-clean.ts with despike(points, opts?) — opposite-sign slope-outlier detection (default MAX_SLOPE_PERCENT = 100) with linear interpolation, operating per segment on { distance, elevation } sequences
  • 1.2 Add filteredTotals(points, opts?) to the same module — hysteresis accumulator (default NOISE_THRESHOLD_M = 5) returning { gain, loss, gainRaw, lossRaw } with the raw-fallback rule (filtered zero + raw non-zero → report raw)
  • 1.3 Add cumulativeFilteredTotals(points, opts?) returning per-point running filtered ascent/descent arrays (for per-day splits)
  • 1.4 Write elevation-clean.test.ts: isolated spike interpolated; steep monotonic climb untouched; no cross-segment interpolation; ±2 m jitter → 0 totals; multi-leg climb counted fully; near-flat raw fallback; cumulative arrays sum to totals

2. Wire into existing computations

  • 2.1 Update computeElevation in packages/gpx/src/parse.ts to despike per segment, then use filteredTotals; keep gain/loss/profile shape and expose gainRaw/lossRaw as additional fields (profile built from despiked data)
  • 2.2 Update elevationSeries in packages/gpx/src/elevation-series.ts to build from despiked points (despike per segment before flattening)
  • 2.3 Update compute-days.ts to build its cumulative ascent/descent arrays via cumulativeFilteredTotals over the despiked track
  • 2.4 Update/extend existing tests (parse.test.ts, elevation-series.test.ts, compute-days.test.ts) with a shared noisy-track fixture; assert chart series, totals, and day sums agree

3. Verification

  • 3.1 Confirm no consumer changes needed: typecheck journal + planner; spot-check gpx-save.server.ts, detail loaders, and planner computeDays usage compile and behave
  • 3.2 Manual sanity check: parse a real noisy activity GPX (e.g. an existing import fixture) and compare gain before/after — filtered value should drop noticeably and match the chart
  • 3.3 Run pnpm typecheck && pnpm lint && pnpm test and the journal/planner e2e suites