@packet-net/pdn-aprs 0.2.0 → 0.3.0

package/dist/encode/position.js

@@ -1,27 +1,59 @@
 // Encoding positions, objects, items and Mic-E reports, with their data extensions, weather and
-// comment elements, in the canonical order: extension, altitude, frequency, comment, base-91
-// telemetry, !DAO! (and for Mic-E, the device suffix last).
+// comment elements, in the canonical order: extension, frequency, signpost or corridor braces,
+// altitude, comment, base-91 telemetry, !DAO! (vectors README, "Encoding"). Mic-E status text
+// keeps its own order: extension, altitude, frequency, comment, telemetry, !DAO!, device suffix.
 import { AREA_COLORS, AREA_SHAPES, KNOTS_TO_MPH, METRES_PER_FOOT, MICROWAVE_BASE } from '../decode/positioned.js';
-import { base91, checkSymbol, freeText, isValidTimestamp, pad, refuse, timestamp7, whole } from './common.js';
+import { base91, checkSymbol, freeText, isValidTimestamp, nearest, pad, refuse, timestamp7, whole } from './common.js';
 const EPS = 1e-9;
+const CUT_TOLERANCE = 1e-6;
 /** Negative, or negative zero: a zero coordinate keeps its hemisphere as the sign of zero. */
 export function isNegative(v) {
     return v < 0 || Object.is(v, -0);
 }
-/** Degrees and hundredths of a minute; truncated when a !DAO! or ambiguity follows, else rounded. */
-function digitsOf(value, truncate) {
+/** Degrees and hundredths of a minute, and the `!DAO!` digit below them. */
+function digitsOf(value, mode, ambiguity = 0) {
     const abs = Math.abs(value);
-    let degrees = Math.floor(abs + EPS);
-    let minutes = (abs - degrees) * 60;
-    if (minutes < 0)
-        minutes = 0;
-    let hundredths = truncate ? Math.floor(minutes * 100 + EPS) : Math.round(minutes * 100);
+    // The ambiguity cut takes F2's tolerance: a value within 1e-6 of the box edge above it, in the
+    // box's units, is on that edge (vectors rulings, G2).
+    let degrees = Math.floor(abs + (mode === 'truncate' && ambiguity >= 4 ? CUT_TOLERANCE : EPS));
+    const minutes = Math.max(0, (abs - degrees) * 60);
+    let hundredths;
+    let extra = 0;
+    switch (mode) {
+        case 'round':
+            hundredths = nearest(minutes * 100);
+            break;
+        case 'truncate': {
+            // Hundredths of a minute in each box: a tenth, a minute, ten minutes, or a whole degree.
+            const box = ambiguity >= 4 ? 6000 : ambiguity === 3 ? 1000 : ambiguity === 2 ? 100 : ambiguity === 1 ? 10 : 1;
+            hundredths = ambiguity >= 4 ? 0 : Math.floor((minutes * 100) / box + (ambiguity > 0 ? CUT_TOLERANCE : EPS)) * box;
+            break;
+        }
+        case 'thousandths': {
+            const steps = nearest(minutes * 1000);
+            hundredths = Math.floor(steps / 10);
+            extra = steps % 10;
+            break;
+        }
+        case 'base91': {
+            const steps = nearest(minutes * 9100);
+            hundredths = Math.floor(steps / 91);
+            extra = steps % 91;
+            break;
+        }
+    }
     if (hundredths >= 6000) {
         degrees += 1;
         hundredths -= 6000;
     }
-    const remainder = Math.max(0, minutes - hundredths / 100);
-    return { degrees, hundredths, remainder };
+    return { degrees, hundredths, extra };
+}
+/** How a position's digits are found, given its ambiguity and `!DAO!`. */
+function digitsMode(f) {
+    if ((f.ambiguity ?? 0) > 0)
+        return 'truncate';
+    const precision = f.dao?.precision;
+    return precision === 'thousandths' || precision === 'base91' ? precision : 'round';
 }
 function blank(text, positions, ambiguity) {
     const chars = text.split('');
@@ -29,8 +61,8 @@ function blank(text, positions, ambiguity) {
         chars[positions[positions.length - 1 - k]] = ' ';
     return chars.join('');
 }
-/** `ddmm.hhN/dddmm.hhW$`, with the DAO remainders. */
-function uncompressedPosition(f, truncate) {
+/** `ddmm.hhN/dddmm.hhW$`, with the `!DAO!` digits. */
+function uncompressedPosition(f) {
     if (!(f.latitude >= -90 && f.latitude <= 90))
         refuse(`latitude ${f.latitude} is out of range`);
     if (!(f.longitude >= -180 && f.longitude <= 180))
@@ -39,8 +71,9 @@ function uncompressedPosition(f, truncate) {
     if (!Number.isInteger(ambiguity) || ambiguity < 0 || ambiguity > 4)
         refuse('ambiguity is 0-4 digits');
     checkSymbol(f.symbol);
-    const lat = digitsOf(f.latitude, truncate || ambiguity > 0);
-    const lon = digitsOf(f.longitude, truncate || ambiguity > 0);
+    const mode = digitsMode(f);
+    const lat = digitsOf(f.latitude, mode, ambiguity);
+    const lon = digitsOf(f.longitude, mode, ambiguity);
     if (lat.degrees > 90 || (lat.degrees === 90 && lat.hundredths > 0))
         refuse('latitude is out of range');
     if (lon.degrees > 180 || (lon.degrees === 180 && lon.hundredths > 0))
@@ -51,8 +84,8 @@ function uncompressedPosition(f, truncate) {
     const lonText = blank(pad(lon.degrees, 3) + lonMin, [3, 4, 6, 7], ambiguity) + (isNegative(f.longitude) ? 'W' : 'E');
     return {
         text: latText + f.symbol.table + lonText + f.symbol.code,
-        latRemainder: lat.remainder,
-        lonRemainder: lon.remainder,
+        latExtra: lat.extra,
+        lonExtra: lon.extra,
     };
 }
 const SOURCES = ['other', 'gll', 'gga', 'rmc'];
@@ -65,7 +98,11 @@ function typeByte(c) {
         refuse('the compression type is not one APRS defines');
     return String.fromCharCode(((c.fix === 'current' ? 1 : 0) << 5) + (source << 3) + origin + 33);
 }
-/** The compressed position; `cs` is the two cs bytes or `undefined` for none. */
+/**
+ * The compressed position; `cs` is the two cs bytes or `undefined` for none. Also gives the
+ * `!DAO!` digits for it: a decoder does not apply them, so they are the ones a `!DAO!` of that
+ * precision gives the position the bytes report, written uncompressed (vectors rulings, E2).
+ */
 function compressedPosition(f, cs, compression) {
     if (!(f.latitude >= -90 && f.latitude <= 90))
         refuse(`latitude ${f.latitude} is out of range`);
@@ -78,10 +115,15 @@ function compressedPosition(f, cs, compression) {
     if (table >= '0' && table <= '9')
         table = String.fromCharCode(table.charCodeAt(0) + 49); // 0-9 -> a-j
     const max = 91 ** 4 - 1;
-    const y = Math.min(max, Math.max(0, Math.round(380926 * (90 - f.latitude))));
-    const x = Math.min(max, Math.max(0, Math.round(190463 * (180 + f.longitude))));
+    const y = Math.min(max, Math.max(0, nearest(380926 * (90 - f.latitude))));
+    const x = Math.min(max, Math.max(0, nearest(190463 * (180 + f.longitude))));
     const tail = cs === undefined ? ' sT' : cs + typeByte(compression ?? DEFAULT_COMPRESSION);
-    return table + base91(y, 4) + base91(x, 4) + f.symbol.code + tail;
+    const mode = digitsMode(f);
+    return {
+        text: table + base91(y, 4) + base91(x, 4) + f.symbol.code + tail,
+        latExtra: digitsOf(90 - y / 380926, mode).extra,
+        lonExtra: digitsOf(x / 190463 - 180, mode).extra,
+    };
 }
 /**
  * A GGA altitude in the cs bytes: 1.002^cs feet, so the nearest value they hold (1 foot for 0 feet
@@ -90,12 +132,48 @@ function compressedPosition(f, cs, compression) {
 function ggaAltitude(feet) {
     if (!Number.isFinite(feet))
         refuse('altitude is not a number');
-    const v = feet <= 1 ? 0 : Math.round(Math.log(feet) / Math.log(1.002));
+    const v = feet <= 1 ? 0 : nearest(Math.log(feet) / Math.log(1.002));
     if (v > 91 * 91 - 1)
         refuse('altitude is too high for the compressed format');
     const cs = String.fromCharCode(Math.floor(v / 91) + 33) + String.fromCharCode((v % 91) + 33);
     return { cs, exact: Math.abs(Math.pow(1.002, v) - feet) <= 1e-9 * Math.abs(feet) };
 }
+/**
+ * A course or wind direction in the cs bytes: 4 degree steps, rounded to the nearest (halves away
+ * from zero), and one that rounds to 360 is c = 0, north (vectors rulings, E9).
+ */
+function compressedDirection(degrees) {
+    return String.fromCharCode((nearest(degrees / 4) % 90) + 33);
+}
+/**
+ * A speed in knots in the cs bytes: 1.08^s - 1, the nearest s for any whole s, refused when that
+ * s is outside the byte (0-90; 90 is `{`), so -0.03 knots is 0 and -0.3 is refused (vectors
+ * rulings, G3).
+ */
+function compressedSpeed(knots, what) {
+    if (!(knots > -1))
+        refuse(`${what} has no compressed form`);
+    const s = nearest(Math.log(knots + 1) / Math.log(1.08));
+    if (s < 0)
+        refuse(`${what} is negative`);
+    if (s > 90)
+        refuse(`${what} is too high for the compressed format`);
+    return String.fromCharCode(s + 33);
+}
+/**
+ * A range in the cs bytes: `{` and 2 x 1.08^s miles, the nearest s for any whole s, refused when
+ * that s is below 0, so 1.95 miles is 2 and 1.9 is refused (vectors rulings, G3).
+ */
+function compressedRange(miles) {
+    if (!(miles > 0))
+        refuse('a compressed range is at least 2 miles');
+    const s = nearest(Math.log(miles / 2) / Math.log(1.08));
+    if (s < 0)
+        refuse('a compressed range is at least 2 miles');
+    if (s > 90)
+        refuse('range is out of range for the compressed format');
+    return '{' + String.fromCharCode(s + 33);
+}
 // ---- data extensions and comment elements
 function courseSpeed(course, speed, what = 'course') {
     const c = course === undefined ? '...' : pad(whole(course, 0, 360, what), 3);
@@ -109,9 +187,11 @@ function rateChar(r) {
     const v = whole(r, 1, 35, 'beacons per hour');
     return v <= 9 ? String(v) : String.fromCharCode(55 + v);
 }
-function altitudeText(feet) {
-    if (!Number.isInteger(feet))
-        refuse('an /A= altitude is whole feet');
+function altitudeText(given) {
+    if (!Number.isFinite(given))
+        refuse('altitude is not a number');
+    // Whole feet, the nearest (vectors rulings, F2).
+    const feet = nearest(given);
     if (feet < 0) {
         if (feet < -99999)
             refuse('altitude is out of range');
@@ -128,7 +208,7 @@ export function frequencyText(f) {
     let whole3;
     let fraction;
     const resolution = f.tenKhzResolution ? 100 : 1000;
-    const scaled = Math.round(mhz * resolution);
+    const scaled = nearest(mhz * resolution);
     const intPart = Math.floor(scaled / resolution);
     const fracPart = scaled % resolution;
     fraction = pad(fracPart, f.tenKhzResolution ? 2 : 3);
@@ -190,7 +270,11 @@ export function telemetryText(t) {
         out += base91(whole(t.digital, 0, 255, 'telemetry bits'), 2);
     return out + '|';
 }
-function daoText(f, latRemainder, lonRemainder, applied) {
+/**
+ * The `!DAO!`: its datum, and digits `latExtra` and `lonExtra` (from `digitsOf`), or zeros when
+ * `applied` is false (an ambiguous position, whose digits say nothing finer).
+ */
+function daoText(f, latExtra, lonExtra, applied) {
     const dao = f.dao;
     const datum = dao.datum;
     if (/^[0-9]$/.test(datum)) {
@@ -204,20 +288,14 @@ function daoText(f, latRemainder, lonRemainder, applied) {
     switch (dao.precision) {
         case 'none':
             return `!${datum.toUpperCase()}  !`;
-        case 'thousandths': {
+        case 'thousandths':
             if (!applied)
                 return `!${datum.toUpperCase()}00!`;
-            const a = Math.min(9, Math.round(latRemainder * 1000));
-            const o = Math.min(9, Math.round(lonRemainder * 1000));
-            return `!${datum.toUpperCase()}${a}${o}!`;
-        }
-        case 'base91': {
+            return `!${datum.toUpperCase()}${latExtra}${lonExtra}!`;
+        case 'base91':
             if (!applied)
                 return `!${datum.toLowerCase()}!!!`;
-            const a = Math.min(90, Math.round(latRemainder * 100 * 91));
-            const o = Math.min(90, Math.round(lonRemainder * 100 * 91));
-            return `!${datum.toLowerCase()}${String.fromCharCode(a + 33)}${String.fromCharCode(o + 33)}!`;
-        }
+            return `!${datum.toLowerCase()}${String.fromCharCode(latExtra + 33)}${String.fromCharCode(lonExtra + 33)}!`;
     }
 }
 // ---- weather
@@ -230,23 +308,23 @@ function weatherValue(v, width, min, max, what) {
     return pad(n, width);
 }
 /**
- * Snowfall written exactly in its three characters, with a decimal point where it needs one
- * (0.32 as `.32`), and refused when they cannot hold it.
+ * Snowfall in its three characters (vectors rulings, F3): rounded to hundredths if that leaves it
+ * under 1, else to tenths if that leaves it under 10, else to a whole number; then a whole number
+ * is three digits (`002`, 0.995 as `001`), one under 1 is `.` and two digits (`.50`), any other a
+ * digit, `.` and a digit (`2.5`). One that rounds past 999 is refused.
  */
 function snowfallText(inches) {
-    if (!Number.isFinite(inches) || inches < 0)
+    if (!Number.isFinite(inches))
         refuse('snowfall is not a number of inches');
-    let text;
-    if (Number.isInteger(inches))
-        text = pad(whole(inches, 0, 999, 'snowfall'), 3);
-    else if (String(inches).length === 3)
-        text = String(inches);
-    else
-        text = inches < 1 ? '.' + pad(Math.round(inches * 100), 2) : '';
-    if (!/^[0-9.]{3}$/.test(text) || /\..*\./.test(text) || Math.abs(Number(text) - inches) > 1e-9) {
-        refuse(`snowfall ${inches} does not fit in 3 characters`);
-    }
-    return text;
+    const hundredths = nearest(inches * 100);
+    if (hundredths < 0)
+        refuse('snowfall is negative');
+    if (hundredths < 100)
+        return hundredths % 100 === 0 ? '000' : '.' + pad(hundredths, 2);
+    const tenths = nearest(inches * 10);
+    if (tenths < 100)
+        return tenths % 10 === 0 ? pad(tenths / 10, 3) : `${Math.floor(tenths / 10)}.${tenths % 10}`;
+    return pad(whole(inches, 0, 999, 'snowfall'), 3);
 }
 /** Weather fields after the wind: gust, temperature, rain, humidity, pressure, and on. */
 function weatherFields(w, mandatory) {
@@ -326,7 +404,8 @@ function positionedBody(f, mode) {
     if (isWeather)
         return weatherBody(f);
     const exts = hasExtension(f);
-    const hasCourse = f.courseDegrees !== undefined || f.speedKnots !== undefined;
+    // DF and storm data extend a course/speed, so they count as that extension (vectors rulings, F7).
+    const hasCourse = f.courseDegrees !== undefined || f.speedKnots !== undefined || (!f.compressed && (f.dfBearing !== undefined || f.storm !== undefined));
     if (exts.length + (hasCourse ? 1 : 0) > 1)
         refuse(`only one data extension can follow the symbol (${[hasCourse ? 'course/speed' : '', ...exts].filter(Boolean).join(', ')})`);
     if (f.dfBearing && !(f.symbol.table === '/' && f.symbol.code === '\\'))
@@ -340,8 +419,8 @@ function positionedBody(f, mode) {
     let out = '';
     let compression;
     let altitudeInCs = false;
-    let latRem = 0;
-    let lonRem = 0;
+    let latExtra = 0;
+    let lonExtra = 0;
     let daoApplied = false;
     if (f.compressed) {
         if (f.phg || f.dfs || f.area || f.dfBearing || f.storm)
@@ -349,29 +428,22 @@ function positionedBody(f, mode) {
         let cs;
         compression = f.compression;
         if (hasCourse) {
+            // The cs bytes hold both, so one alone would add a value the data does not have; a course of
+            // 0 (after rounding) would read back as 360 (vectors rulings, F1, F5).
             if (f.courseDegrees === undefined)
                 refuse('a compressed course/speed needs a course');
+            if (f.speedKnots === undefined)
+                refuse('a compressed course/speed needs a speed');
             if (compression?.source === 'gga')
                 refuse('a GGA compression type means the cs bytes hold altitude');
-            const c = whole(f.courseDegrees, 1, 360, 'course') % 360;
-            if (c % 4 !== 0 && Math.abs(Math.round(c / 4) * 4 - f.courseDegrees) > 2)
-                refuse('course is out of range');
-            const speed = f.speedKnots ?? 0;
-            if (speed < 0)
-                refuse('speed is negative');
-            const s = Math.round(Math.log(speed + 1) / Math.log(1.08));
-            if (s > 90)
-                refuse('speed is too high for the compressed format');
-            cs = String.fromCharCode(Math.round(c / 4) % 90 + 33) + String.fromCharCode(s + 33);
+            whole(f.courseDegrees, 1, 360, 'course');
+            cs = compressedDirection(f.courseDegrees) + compressedSpeed(f.speedKnots, 'speed');
             compression = compression ?? DEFAULT_COMPRESSION;
         }
         else if (f.rangeMiles !== undefined) {
             if (compression?.source === 'gga')
                 refuse('a GGA compression type means the cs bytes hold altitude');
-            const s = Math.round(Math.log(f.rangeMiles / 2) / Math.log(1.08));
-            if (!(s >= 0 && s <= 90))
-                refuse('range is out of range for the compressed format');
-            cs = '{' + String.fromCharCode(s + 33);
+            cs = compressedRange(f.rangeMiles);
             compression = compression ?? DEFAULT_COMPRESSION;
         }
         else if (f.altitudeFeet !== undefined && compression?.source === 'gga') {
@@ -382,17 +454,23 @@ function positionedBody(f, mode) {
         else if (compression !== undefined) {
             refuse('a compression type needs cs data (course/speed, range or altitude)');
         }
-        out += compressedPosition(f, cs, compression);
+        const pos = compressedPosition(f, cs, compression);
+        out += pos.text;
+        latExtra = pos.latExtra;
+        lonExtra = pos.lonExtra;
+        daoApplied = true;
     }
     else {
         if (f.compression)
             refuse('an uncompressed position has no compression type');
-        const pos = uncompressedPosition(f, f.dao !== undefined);
+        const pos = uncompressedPosition(f);
         out += pos.text;
-        latRem = pos.latRemainder;
-        lonRem = pos.lonRemainder;
+        latExtra = pos.latExtra;
+        lonExtra = pos.lonExtra;
         daoApplied = (f.ambiguity ?? 0) === 0;
         if (hasCourse) {
+            // DF or storm data with no course and speed follows `.../...`, which reads back as unknown
+            // (vectors rulings, F8).
             out += courseSpeed(f.courseDegrees, f.speedKnots);
             if (f.dfBearing) {
                 const b = f.dfBearing;
@@ -401,9 +479,6 @@ function positionedBody(f, mode) {
             if (f.storm)
                 out += stormText(f.storm);
         }
-        else if (f.dfBearing || f.storm) {
-            refuse('DF and storm data follow a course/speed extension');
-        }
         else if (f.phg) {
             const p = f.phg;
             out += `PHG${whole(p.power, 0, 9, 'power code')}${heightChar(p.height)}${whole(p.gain, 0, 9, 'gain code')}${whole(p.directivity, 0, 9, 'directivity code')}`;
@@ -427,14 +502,15 @@ function positionedBody(f, mode) {
             out += `${shape}${pad(whole(a.latOffset, 0, 99, 'area offset'), 2)}${c}${pad(whole(a.lonOffset, 0, 99, 'area offset'), 2)}`;
         }
     }
-    // Altitude, unless the compressed cs bytes carry it exactly.
-    if (f.altitudeFeet !== undefined && !altitudeInCs)
-        out += altitudeText(f.altitudeFeet);
-    const extensionEnded = !f.compressed && (hasCourse || exts.length > 0) && f.altitudeFeet === undefined;
+    // After the data extension: the frequency with its fields, first, where radios read it (APRS12c
+    // ch. 18); the signpost or corridor braces; the altitude, unless the compressed cs bytes carry it
+    // exactly; the free text; base-91 telemetry; the !DAO! (vectors rulings, E3).
     let text = '';
-    // A frequency straight after a 7-byte extension is separated from it by / (a PHGR already ends in one).
+    // A frequency straight after a 7-byte extension follows a / (a PHGR already ends in one); after a
+    // compressed position, or a position with no extension, it follows straight on.
+    const extended = !f.compressed && (hasCourse || exts.length > 0);
     if (f.frequency)
-        text += (extensionEnded && !out.endsWith('/') ? '/' : '') + frequencyText(f.frequency);
+        text += (extended && !out.endsWith('/') ? '/' : '') + frequencyText(f.frequency);
     let braces = '';
     if (f.signpost !== undefined) {
         // Printable ASCII, a space included, other than the braces around it.
@@ -447,17 +523,21 @@ function positionedBody(f, mode) {
             refuse('only a line has a corridor');
         braces = `{${whole(f.area.corridorWidthMiles, 0, 999, 'corridor width')}}`;
     }
+    text += braces;
+    if (f.altitudeFeet !== undefined && !altitudeInCs)
+        text += altitudeText(f.altitudeFeet);
     const comment = f.comment ?? '';
     if (comment.length > 0 || mode === 'delimited') {
-        if (text.length > 0 && mode !== 'joined')
+        // After a frequency (and anything after it) the free text follows a space, unless that would
+        // make it read as one of the frequency's fields.
+        if ((f.frequency && mode !== 'joined') || mode === 'spaced')
             text += ' ';
         text += (mode === 'delimited' ? '/' : '') + freeText(comment, 'the comment');
     }
-    text = mode === 'braces-first' ? braces + text : text + braces;
     if (f.telemetry)
         text += telemetryText(f.telemetry);
     if (f.dao)
-        text += daoText(f, latRem, lonRem, daoApplied);
+        text += daoText(f, latExtra, lonExtra, daoApplied);
     const body = { text: out + text };
     if (compression)
         body.compression = compression;
@@ -465,7 +545,8 @@ function positionedBody(f, mode) {
 }
 function stormText(s) {
     const type = s.type === 'tropical-storm' ? 'TS' : s.type === 'hurricane' ? 'HC' : s.type === 'tropical-depression' ? 'TD' : refuse('unknown storm type');
-    const v = (n, width, what) => (n === undefined ? ' '.repeat(width) : pad(whole(n, 0, 10 ** width - 1, what), width));
+    // Each field is digits: one with no value has no form (vectors README, storm data).
+    const v = (n, width, what) => n === undefined ? refuse(`storm data needs its ${what}`) : pad(whole(n, 0, 10 ** width - 1, what), width);
     let out = `/${type}/${v(s.sustainedWindKnots, 3, 'sustained wind')}^${v(s.gustKnots, 3, 'gust')}/${v(s.centralPressureMbar, 4, 'pressure')}>${v(s.hurricaneRadiusNm, 3, 'radius')}&${v(s.tropicalStormRadiusNm, 3, 'radius')}`;
     if (s.wholeGaleRadiusNm !== undefined)
         out += `%${v(s.wholeGaleRadiusNm, 3, 'radius')}`;
@@ -485,8 +566,8 @@ function weatherBody(f) {
         refuse('comment telemetry goes in a comment, which a weather report does not have');
     let out = '';
     let compression;
-    let latRem = 0;
-    let lonRem = 0;
+    let latExtra = 0;
+    let lonExtra = 0;
     let daoApplied = false;
     let altitudeInCs = false;
     if (f.compressed) {
@@ -495,34 +576,31 @@ function weatherBody(f) {
         if (w.windDirectionDegrees !== undefined || w.windSpeedMph !== undefined) {
             if (w.windDirectionDegrees === undefined || w.windSpeedMph === undefined)
                 refuse('compressed wind needs both direction and speed');
-            const dir = whole(w.windDirectionDegrees, 0, 360, 'wind direction');
-            const knots = w.windSpeedMph / KNOTS_TO_MPH;
-            const s = Math.round(Math.log(knots + 1) / Math.log(1.08));
-            if (s < 0 || s > 90)
-                refuse('wind speed is out of range for the compressed format');
-            cs = String.fromCharCode((Math.round(dir / 4) % 90) + 33) + String.fromCharCode(s + 33);
+            whole(w.windDirectionDegrees, 0, 360, 'wind direction');
+            cs = compressedDirection(w.windDirectionDegrees) + compressedSpeed(w.windSpeedMph / KNOTS_TO_MPH, 'wind speed');
             compression = compression ?? DEFAULT_COMPRESSION;
             if (compression.source === 'gga')
                 refuse('a GGA compression type means the cs bytes hold altitude');
         }
         else if (f.altitudeFeet !== undefined && compression?.source === 'gga') {
-            const alt = ggaAltitude(f.altitudeFeet);
-            cs = alt.cs;
-            altitudeInCs = alt.exact;
+            // With no comment to hold a /A=, the nearest value the cs bytes hold (vectors rulings, F14).
+            cs = ggaAltitude(f.altitudeFeet).cs;
+            altitudeInCs = true;
         }
         else if (f.rangeMiles !== undefined) {
             if (compression?.source === 'gga')
                 refuse('a GGA compression type means the cs bytes hold altitude');
-            const s = Math.round(Math.log(f.rangeMiles / 2) / Math.log(1.08));
-            if (!(s >= 0 && s <= 90))
-                refuse('range is out of range for the compressed format');
-            cs = '{' + String.fromCharCode(s + 33);
+            cs = compressedRange(f.rangeMiles);
             compression = compression ?? DEFAULT_COMPRESSION;
         }
         else if (compression !== undefined) {
             refuse('a compression type needs cs data');
         }
-        out += compressedPosition(f, cs, compression);
+        const pos = compressedPosition(f, cs, compression);
+        out += pos.text;
+        latExtra = pos.latExtra;
+        lonExtra = pos.lonExtra;
+        daoApplied = true;
         if (f.altitudeFeet !== undefined && !altitudeInCs)
             refuse('a weather report has no altitude in its comment');
         out += weatherFields(w, true);
@@ -532,10 +610,10 @@ function weatherBody(f) {
             refuse('an uncompressed position has no compression type');
         if (f.altitudeFeet !== undefined)
             refuse('a weather report has no altitude in its comment');
-        const pos = uncompressedPosition(f, f.dao !== undefined);
+        const pos = uncompressedPosition(f);
         out += pos.text;
-        latRem = pos.latRemainder;
-        lonRem = pos.lonRemainder;
+        latExtra = pos.latExtra;
+        lonExtra = pos.lonExtra;
         daoApplied = (f.ambiguity ?? 0) === 0;
         out += courseSpeed(w.windDirectionDegrees, w.windSpeedMph, 'wind direction');
         out += weatherFields(w, true);
@@ -543,7 +621,7 @@ function weatherBody(f) {
     if (f.telemetry)
         out += telemetryText(f.telemetry);
     if (f.dao)
-        out += daoText(f, latRem, lonRem, daoApplied);
+        out += daoText(f, latExtra, lonExtra, daoApplied);
     const body = { text: out };
     if (compression)
         body.compression = compression;
@@ -633,8 +711,13 @@ function micEDestination(d, lat, lonDegrees) {
     }
     return out;
 }
+/**
+ * Mic-E reports whose altitude was given in feet by a program, so it goes in a `/A=` and not the
+ * Mic-E altitude bytes, whose unit is the metre (vectors rulings, B2).
+ */
+export const ALTITUDE_GIVEN_IN_FEET = new WeakSet();
 export function micEAltitude(feet) {
-    const metres = Math.round(feet * METRES_PER_FOOT);
+    const metres = nearest(feet * METRES_PER_FOOT);
     if (Math.abs(metres / METRES_PER_FOOT - feet) > 1e-6)
         return undefined;
     const v = metres + 10000;
@@ -658,9 +741,9 @@ export function encodeMicE(d, mode) {
     const ambiguity = d.ambiguity ?? 0;
     if (!Number.isInteger(ambiguity) || ambiguity < 0 || ambiguity > 4)
         refuse('ambiguity is 0-4 digits');
-    const truncate = d.dao !== undefined || ambiguity > 0;
-    const lat = digitsOf(d.latitude, truncate);
-    const lon = digitsOf(d.longitude, truncate);
+    const digits = digitsMode(d);
+    const lat = digitsOf(d.latitude, digits, ambiguity);
+    const lon = digitsOf(d.longitude, digits, ambiguity);
     if (lat.degrees > 90 || (lat.degrees === 90 && lat.hundredths > 0))
         refuse('latitude is out of range');
     if (lon.degrees > 179)
@@ -677,16 +760,28 @@ export function encodeMicE(d, mode) {
         dByte = deg + 8;
     else
         dByte = deg - 100 + 28;
-    // With ambiguity the digits a decoder ignores are written as the centre it reports.
-    const mValue = Math.floor(lon.hundredths / 100);
-    const hundredths = lon.hundredths % 100;
+    // With ambiguity the digits a decoder ignores are written as the centre it reports (vectors
+    // README, Mic-E): 03.5x is 03.55, 03.xx 03.50, 0x.xx 05.00, xx.xx 30.00.
+    let lonHundredths = lon.hundredths;
+    if (ambiguity === 1)
+        lonHundredths = Math.floor(lonHundredths / 10) * 10 + 5;
+    else if (ambiguity === 2)
+        lonHundredths = Math.floor(lonHundredths / 100) * 100 + 50;
+    else if (ambiguity === 3)
+        lonHundredths = Math.floor(lonHundredths / 1000) * 1000 + 500;
+    else if (ambiguity === 4)
+        lonHundredths = 3000;
+    const mValue = Math.floor(lonHundredths / 100);
+    const hundredths = lonHundredths % 100;
     const mByte = mValue < 10 ? mValue + 88 : mValue + 28;
     const hByte = hundredths + 28;
-    // Speed and course: speed tens + 80 (so values under 200 knots are printable), course + 400.
+    // Speed and course in their printable forms (APRS12c ch. 10): speed tens + 80 below 190 knots,
+    // and as they are from 190 on (190-199 is /, not DEL: vectors rulings, E5); course + 400.
     const speed = d.speedKnots === undefined ? 0 : whole(d.speedKnots, 0, 799, 'speed');
-    const course = d.courseDegrees === undefined ? 0 : whole(d.courseDegrees, 0, 360, 'course');
+    // A course of 0 (after rounding) reads back as no course, so it is refused (vectors rulings, F1).
+    const course = d.courseDegrees === undefined ? 0 : whole(d.courseDegrees, 1, 360, 'course');
     const tens = Math.floor(speed / 10);
-    const spByte = tens < 20 ? tens + 80 + 28 : tens + 28;
+    const spByte = tens < 19 ? tens + 80 + 28 : tens + 28;
     const dcByte = (speed % 10) * 10 + Math.floor(course / 100) + 4 + 28;
     const seByte = (course % 100) + 28;
     const dti = d.oldData ? "'" : '`';
@@ -707,7 +802,7 @@ export function encodeMicE(d, mode) {
     }
     let altitudeInComment;
     if (d.altitudeFeet !== undefined) {
-        const alt = micEAltitude(d.altitudeFeet);
+        const alt = ALTITUDE_GIVEN_IN_FEET.has(d) ? undefined : micEAltitude(d.altitudeFeet);
         if (alt !== undefined)
             text += alt;
         else
@@ -737,15 +832,18 @@ export function encodeMicE(d, mode) {
         rest += (exts > 0 && altitudeInComment === undefined && !after.endsWith('/') ? '/' : '') + frequencyText(d.frequency);
     const comment = d.comment ?? '';
     if (comment.length > 0 || mode === 'delimited') {
-        if (rest.length > 0 && mode !== 'joined')
+        if ((rest.length > 0 && mode !== 'joined') || mode === 'spaced')
             rest += ' ';
         rest += (mode === 'delimited' ? '/' : '') + freeText(comment, 'the comment');
     }
     after += rest;
+    // Telemetry and the !DAO! are lifted before a locator is read, so they follow it straight on
+    // (vectors rulings, F16).
+    let lifted = '';
     if (d.telemetry)
-        after += telemetryText(d.telemetry);
+        lifted += telemetryText(d.telemetry);
     if (d.dao)
-        after += daoText(d, lat.remainder, lon.remainder, ambiguity === 0);
+        lifted += daoText(d, lat.extra, lon.extra, ambiguity === 0);
     if (d.locator !== undefined) {
         if (!/^[A-R]{2}[0-9]{2}(?:[A-X]{2})?$/.test(d.locator))
             refuse('the locator is 4 or 6 characters, upper case');
@@ -753,7 +851,7 @@ export function encodeMicE(d, mode) {
         if (after.length > 0)
             text += ' ';
     }
-    text += after;
+    text += after + lifted;
     if (d.deviceSuffix !== undefined) {
         if (d.typeCode === undefined)
             refuse('a Mic-E device suffix needs a type code');