Week 053 — Geotagging Ships (Sort Of)

The data saves. The display doesn't load it. Two different problems.

Week of November 24, 2025

Progress

Geotagging lost items was completed through the full stack: DTO, Service, Repository, UI address field, radius field, and save logic. Saving worked by Monday.

Loading the saved data back into the UI did not. When returning to an item that had been saved with a lost location, the lost location fields came up blank. That was Monday's end state.

By Sunday the load display was fixed. But during that fix, something else came into view: displaying raw coordinates to the user is not useful. The decision was made to show a map instead — a circle drawn around the reported location using the radius value. That adds meaningful scope to what was "just a display fix."

A data type issue surfaced: the saved coordinates were coming back as integers rather than floats. That was identified and noted for the next work session.

Decision Made

Raw (x, y) coordinates won't be shown to users. A map with a radius circle is the interface. It says more and requires less interpretation from the user.

Next Week

Implement the lost location map.