Changelog

Weather radar overlay — an opt-in RainViewer layer sits under the incident pins and refreshes on a ~10-minute frame cadence. Toggle lives next to the basemap control; the choice persists.

Home & environmental safety card on US city pages — ZIP-level EPA water violations, lead/copper sampling, radon zone and a composite Home Safety Score (ZipCheckup civic dataset, CC BY 4.0). Missing evidence renders as 'no data', never as 'clean'.

Region tagging now uses real administrative boundaries (geoBoundaries, CC BY 4.0) instead of bounding boxes — border towns, Great Lakes waters and island territories (Easter Island, the Aleutians, Ellesmere) attribute correctly.

Media backstops for Cleveland, Peel, New Orleans and Stockholm — when official feeds respond but stop publishing (or lag ~30h by design), local newsrooms keep the region live with source-attributed, approximately-located items.

Business plan — $299/yr (or $29/mo) adds a commercial license, 25 webhook/Slack/Discord delivery endpoints, 50 pinned cities and higher API limits. Consumer Pro stays $29/yr.

Use-case pages for newsrooms, realtors, insurers, logistics, property managers and security teams — each with honest limits and a named plan. /alternatives gained PulsePoint, Ring Neighbors and Broadcastify comparisons.

Event-loop and SQLite stall instrumentation plus an external watchdog — heartbeat monitoring detects a frozen event loop and restarts the process.

Trending threshold lowered — quiet regions now surface real activity instead of reading 'nothing is trending'.

Cluster webhooks — Business endpoints can now fire on incident-density thresholds inside a geo-fenced bounding box, re-firing as a cluster grows.

Netherlands NDW DATEX II road incidents, a UK media wave (BBC regional feeds fix monthly-batch staleness), and an East-Asia wave covering Korea, Japan, Taiwan plus Pakistan/Russia/China expansions.

Resolver DNS cache — upstream DNS flaps accounted for ~18% of feed failures; transient errors now serve last-good while nonexistent names still fail authoritatively.

Localized stats subpages for es/pt/de/cs city pages.

GA-parity self-hosted analytics — sessions, channels, conversions, dwell and a coverage-vs-traffic detector that flags regions visitors read but feeds can't serve.

Columbus media — the first US metro media scrape, the pattern later reused for the Cleveland/Peel/NOLA/Stockholm backstops.

One-click alert subscribe for signed-in visitors; demand-watch and coverage-watch now email daily digests of stale or unserved regions.

MCP server published to the official registry and Smithery; endpoint aliased at /.well-known/mcp for directory validators. Tools now emit structuredContent with typed output schemas.

OpenAPI 3.1 spec served at /.well-known/openapi.json; ChatGPT app submission package with a self-contained incident-summary widget.

Cold-render latency cut — SQLite pragmas, hot-path indexes and cached aggregates; city pages stopped stalling on cold boots.

Country and state/province pages — /countries/<slug> and /countries/<country>/<state> roll incidents up to national and subdivision level.

World-stories hero on /news — cross-outlet clustering ranks the day's most-covered global stories, now with thumbnails on every list.

Wildcard CORS on the MCP endpoint so browser-based agents can call it cross-origin.

Trending regions — spike detection highlights areas with unusual activity on the map and a trending strip above the feed.

Global police-wire coverage — official feeds across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa; every Canadian province now has an RCMP newsroom; US pilot adds FlashAlert PNW plus seven state-police feeds.

Light/dark/system basemap picker; incident fetches retry through deploy gaps so the map survives a redeploy without a reload.

/news index grouped by region with an Atom feed; city pages got the hero restyle and live incident counts on the index.

WCAG AA contrast pass across the map legend, city cards, footer and incident modals.

Cloudflare edge in front of the origin — zone hardening, deploy-gap retries and IP-vs-timezone geo sanity checks.

IndexNow pushes changed sitemap URLs to Bing hourly.

es/pt localized city landing pages — first wave of localized city SEO.

Real-visitor uptime heartbeat — an alarm fires when human pageviews stall, catching silent feed or render failures before users report them.