trails/openspec/changes/planner-route-interactions/proposal.md
Ullrich Schäfer b080a15fb1
Add route interactions: click-to-split, drag-to-reshape, colored route rendering
- Enrich BRouter response with per-point 3D coordinates and segment boundary
  tracking (EnrichedRoute interface)
- ColoredRoute component: plain, elevation gradient (green→yellow→red), and
  surface color modes with invisible wide polyline for click targeting
- Click-to-split: click on route polyline inserts waypoint at nearest point,
  mapped to correct segment via boundary indices
- MidpointHandles: draggable CircleMarkers at route segment midpoints for
  reshaping, hidden below zoom 12, opaque on hover
- Color mode toggle (select) synced via Yjs routeData
- i18n keys for color mode labels (en + de)
- Unit tests for segment boundary tracking (13 tests)
- E2E tests for enriched route response and color mode toggle

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-26 21:15:55 +01:00

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## Why
The Planner's route editing is click-only: users place waypoints and the route
auto-computes between them. But refining a route is tedious — you can't insert
a waypoint on the route itself, drag a route segment to reshape it, or see what
kind of terrain you're heading into. These are table-stakes features in modern
route planners (bikerouter.de, komoot, Ride with GPS) and the most common
feedback from early testers.
## What Changes
- **Route splitting**: Click on the route polyline to insert a new waypoint at
that position, splitting the segment. The waypoint snaps to the closest point
on the existing route.
- **Drag-to-reshape**: Invisible midpoint handles appear between waypoints on
the route. Dragging a midpoint inserts a new waypoint and triggers route
recomputation — the natural way to push a route onto a different path.
- **Colored route rendering**: Replace the single-color route polyline with
segments colored by elevation gradient or surface type (from BRouter's
per-point data). Users can toggle between plain, elevation, and surface
color modes.
## Capabilities
### New Capabilities
- `route-splitting`: Insert waypoints by clicking on the route polyline, with
snapping to the nearest route point
- `route-drag-reshape`: Drag midpoint handles on route segments to reshape the
route interactively
- `route-coloring`: Color-code the route polyline by elevation gradient or
surface type using BRouter track data
### Modified Capabilities
- `map-display`: Route visualization changes from a single-color polyline to
a segmented, interactive polyline with color modes and click/drag interactions
- `brouter-integration`: BRouter response data (elevation per point, surface
tags) must be preserved and exposed to the rendering layer
## Impact
- **PlannerMap.tsx**: Major changes — route polyline becomes interactive with
click-to-split and drag midpoint handles
- **brouter.ts**: Expose per-point elevation and surface data from GeoJSON
properties (currently only track-level stats are extracted)
- **use-routing.ts**: Support waypoint insertion at specific indices (not just
append)
- **use-yjs.ts**: Waypoint insertion at arbitrary positions (already supported
by Y.Array.insert)
- **New components**: ColoredRoute (segmented polyline renderer),
MidpointHandles (draggable reshape markers)
- **ElevationChart**: Add hover-to-highlight sync with colored route
- **Dependencies**: May need `leaflet-hotline` for smooth gradient rendering,
or custom canvas renderer
- **i18n**: New keys for color mode labels (en + de)