Stop the map shifting when a zoom settles

[ryanbarlow97]

What

About 140 ms after each wheel tick (when the zoom settles) the whole map moved up and left by up to a pixel or so, each tile by its own amount. This is the "janky shift" in today's recording.

Why

Three things differed between the live zoom and the rested view:

• Since Stop the map's tiles showing dark lines while zooming #113, opaque tiles reached 2 px under their neighbours mid-zoom but 1 px at rest, so every tile's far side moved back a pixel on settle. This was the bulk of it, always up and to the left.
• Tile edges were re-snapped to the pixel grid of the new zoom, so each tile moved by its own fraction of a pixel.
• The live translate wasn't rounded to device pixels; the rested one was.

Fix

• Opaque tiles overlap 2 px at rest and mid-zoom alike (a single .map-tile rule; data-scaling is gone). 1 px everywhere was not enough: a seam showed mid-zoom-out at dpr 1.
• Opaque tiles keep their exact positions. Only see-through rasters (seeThrough, the province modes) still snap, since they can't overlap.
• The live wheel/pinch/drag transform rounds its translate the same way the rested view does, and so does the commit render before zoom catches up. Mid-zoom tiles now land exactly where they will rest.

Checked

Local next dev of this branch against live Main data, compared with tfminecraft.net, headless Chromium, 1200×520. A one-tick wheel zoom is screenshotted mid-gesture and after it settles, then the motion is measured per 96 px block by phase correlation:

CSS px moved at settle	main	this PR
zoom in, mean / max	0.50 / 1.28	0.18 / 0.44
zoom out, mean / max	0.28 / 1.00	0.13 / 0.29

What remains is resampling noise from the re-raster at the new scale.

Seams (solid-black tiles on white, worst line darkness; #113's probe): mid-zoom is at or below main at dpr 1, 1.25, 1.5 and 2, and main's peaks of 0.139 (dpr 1.5) and 0.102 (dpr 2) drop to 0.042 and 0.063. At rest the values match main exactly; the high ones there are map edges on both.

All 1,975 frontend tests pass and tsc is clean. New tests: opaque tiles stay in place while see-through ones snap; a wheel zoom's live transform sits on whole device pixels and keeps its position when it settles (fails on main).

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved map tile alignment at different zoom levels, reducing visible gaps and keeping opaque tiles in their intended positions.
  • See-through tiles now align to screen pixels when appropriate, while map movement and live zoom remain more precisely aligned across display scales.

Walkthrough

The map viewport aligns live zoom translations to device pixels. Tile rendering applies conditional pixel snapping and a 2-pixel overlap. CSS scales tile overlap using the live map scale.

Changes

Map zoom and tile alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Viewport zoom alignment frontend/app/hooks/useMapViewport.ts, frontend/app/hooks/useMapViewport.test.ts	The viewport aligns translations when resting zoom is enabled, including during live scaling. It updates the live-scale property and calculates overlap scale during transitions. The test checks device-pixel alignment during wheel zoom and after the scale returns to 1.
Tile placement and overlap frontend/app/components/map/TileLayer.tsx, frontend/app/components/map/TileLayer.test.tsx, frontend/app/internal/globals.css	Opaque tiles use a 2-pixel overlap and keep unsnapped positions. See-through tiles snap to screen pixels when the scale ratio is positive and finite. CSS scales overlap by the live map scale. Tests check opaque and see-through tile placement at display scale 0.7.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: carolinebondhus

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Map picking may differ from the displayed pixel near a boundary. The impact appears narrow, but the coordinate mismatch should be checked before merge.

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🟡 Minor · Use the rendered translation for map picking. · useMapViewport.ts:308-309

frontend/app/hooks/useMapViewport.ts:308-309
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the rendered translation for map picking.

When restingZoom is enabled, these lines snap the translation shown on screen. onLiveTransform and screenToMapFromClient still use the unsnapped translation. A pointer near a map-pixel boundary can therefore select a different pixel from the one displayed. Pass the snapped translation to picking and use the same coordinates in screenToMapFromClient.

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Review comment at @frontend/app/hooks/useMapViewport.ts around lines 308 - 309:
Update the translation handling in useMapViewport so map picking uses the same
pixel-aligned translation rendered when restingZoom is enabled. Pass the snapped
X and Y coordinates through onLiveTransform and use those same coordinates in
screenToMapFromClient; preserve unsnapped translations when pixel alignment is
disabled.

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Review comments at @frontend/app/hooks/useMapViewport.ts:
- Around line 308-309: Update the translation handling in useMapViewport so map
picking uses the same pixel-aligned translation rendered when restingZoom is
enabled. Pass the snapped X and Y coordinates through onLiveTransform and use
those same coordinates in screenToMapFromClient; preserve unsnapped translations
when pixel alignment is disabled.

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• frontend/app/components/map/TileLayer.test.tsx
• frontend/app/components/map/TileLayer.tsx
• frontend/app/hooks/useMapViewport.test.ts
• frontend/app/hooks/useMapViewport.ts
• frontend/app/internal/globals.css

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