Ref T773, use "on ground" cached elevations for situations in simulator and airspace monitor

src/blackcore/airspacemonitor.cpp

@@ -1358,8 +1358,9 @@ namespace BlackCore
         if (callsign.isEmpty()) { return situation; }
 
         CAircraftSituation correctedSituation(allowTestOffset ? this->addTestAltitudeOffsetToSituation(situation) : situation);
-        bool haveRequestedElevation = false;
+        bool canLikelySkipNearGround = correctedSituation.canLikelySkipNearGroundInterpolation();
-        const bool canLikelySkipNearGround = correctedSituation.canLikelySkipNearGroundInterpolation();
+        bool needToRequestElevation  = false;
+
         if (!correctedSituation.hasGroundElevation())
         {
             // set a defined state
@@ -1368,20 +1369,35 @@ namespace BlackCore
             if (!canLikelySkipNearGround)
             {
                 // fetch from cache or request
-                const CAircraftSituationList situations   = this->remoteAircraftSituations(callsign);
+                const CAircraftSituationChange changesBeforeStoring = this->remoteAircraftSituationChanges(callsign).frontOrDefault();
-                const CAircraftSituation situationWithElv = situations.findCLosestElevationWithinRange(correctedSituation, correctedSituation.getDistancePerTime(100, CElevationPlane::singlePointRadius()));
+
-                if (!situationWithElv.getGroundElevation().isNull())
+                // Check if we can bail out and ignore all elevation handling
+                //
+                // rational:
+                // a) elevation handling is expensive, and might even requests elevation from sim.
+                // b) elevations not needed pollute the cache with "useless" values
+                //
+                if (!changesBeforeStoring.isNull())
                 {
-                    // from nearby situations of own aircraft
+                    canLikelySkipNearGround = changesBeforeStoring.isConstAscending();
-                    correctedSituation.transferGroundElevation(situationWithElv);
+                }
+
+                if (!canLikelySkipNearGround)
+                {
+                    const CAircraftSituationList situationsBeforeStoring    = this->remoteAircraftSituations(callsign);
+                    const CAircraftSituation situationWithElvBeforeStoring  = situationsBeforeStoring.findClosestElevationWithinRange(correctedSituation, correctedSituation.getDistancePerTime(100, CElevationPlane::singlePointRadius()));
+                    if (!situationWithElvBeforeStoring.getGroundElevation().isNull())
+                    {
+                        // from nearby situations of own aircraft, data was transferred above
+                        // we use transfer first as it is slightly faster as cache
                     }
                     else
                     {
                         // from cache
                         const CLength distance(correctedSituation.getDistancePerTime250ms(CElevationPlane::singlePointRadius())); // distance per ms
-                    const CElevationPlane ep = this->findClosestElevationWithinRangeOrRequest(correctedSituation, distance, callsign);
+                        const CElevationPlane ep = this->findClosestElevationWithinRange(correctedSituation, distance);
-                    haveRequestedElevation   = ep.isNull();  // NULL means we requested
+                        needToRequestElevation   = ep.isNull();
-                    Q_ASSERT_X(haveRequestedElevation || !ep.getRadius().isNull(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "null radius");
+                        Q_ASSERT_X(needToRequestElevation || !ep.getRadius().isNull(), Q_FUNC_INFO, "null radius");
 
                         // also can handle NULL elevations
                         correctedSituation.setGroundElevation(ep, CAircraftSituation::FromCache);
@@ -1389,14 +1405,28 @@ namespace BlackCore
 
                     // we have a new situation, so we try to get the elevation
                     // so far we have requested it, but we set it upfront either by
-                // a) average value from other planes in the vicinity or
+                    //
+                    // a) average value from other planes in the vicinity (cache, not moving) or
                     // b) by extrapolating
                     //
                     // if we would NOT preset it, we could end up with oscillation
                     //
                     if (!correctedSituation.hasGroundElevation())
                     {
-                    const CElevationPlane averagePlane = this->averageElevationOfNonMovingAircraft(situation, CElevationPlane::majorAirportRadius(), 2);
+                        // average elevation
+                        // 1) from cache
+                        // 2) from planes on ground not moving
+                        bool fromNonMoving = false;
+                        bool triedExtrapolation  = false;
+                        bool couldNotExtrapolate = false;
+
+                        CElevationPlane averagePlane = this->averageElevationOfOnGroundAircraft(situation, CElevationPlane::majorAirportRadius(), 2, 3);
+                        if (averagePlane.isNull())
+                        {
+                            averagePlane = this->averageElevationOfNonMovingAircraft(situation, CElevationPlane::majorAirportRadius(), 2);
+                        }
+
+                        // do we have a elevation yet?
                         if (!averagePlane.isNull())
                         {
                             correctedSituation.setGroundElevation(averagePlane, CAircraftSituation::Average);
@@ -1404,18 +1434,30 @@ namespace BlackCore
                         else
                         {
                             // values before updating (i.e. "storing") so the new situation is not yet considered
-                        const CAircraftSituationList    oldSituations = this->remoteAircraftSituations(callsign);
+                            if (situationsBeforeStoring.size() > 1)
-                        const CAircraftSituationChangeList oldChanges = this->remoteAircraftSituationChanges(callsign);
-                        if (oldSituations.size() > 1)
                             {
-                            const bool extrapolated = correctedSituation.extrapolateElevation(oldSituations[0], oldSituations[1], oldChanges.frontOrDefault());
+                                const bool extrapolated = correctedSituation.extrapolateElevation(situationsBeforeStoring[0], situationsBeforeStoring[1], changesBeforeStoring);
-                            Q_UNUSED(extrapolated)
+                                triedExtrapolation  = true;
-
+                                couldNotExtrapolate = !extrapolated;
-                            // extrapolation only works if there is a provider and already data
-                            // BLACK_AUDIT_X(extrapolated, Q_FUNC_INFO, "Cannot extrapolate");
                             }
                         }
+
+                        // still no elevation
+                        if (!correctedSituation.hasGroundElevation())
+                        {
+                            if (CBuildConfig::isLocalDeveloperDebugBuild())
+                            {
+                                // experimental, could become ASSERT
+                                BLACK_VERIFY_X(needToRequestElevation, Q_FUNC_INFO, "Request should already be set");
+                            }
+                            needToRequestElevation = true; // should be the true already
+
+                            Q_UNUSED(triedExtrapolation)
+                            Q_UNUSED(couldNotExtrapolate)
+                        }
                     } // gnd. elevation
+
+                } // can skip?
             } // can skip?
         } // have already elevation?
 
@@ -1442,18 +1484,18 @@ namespace BlackCore
         // store corrected situation
         correctedSituation = CRemoteAircraftProvider::storeAircraftSituation(correctedSituation, false); // we already added offset if any
 
-        // check if we STILL want to request
+        // check if we need want to request
-        if (!haveRequestedElevation && !canLikelySkipNearGround)
+        if (needToRequestElevation && !canLikelySkipNearGround)
         {
             // we have not requested so far, but we are NEAR ground
             // we expect at least not transferred cache or we are moving and have no provider elevation yet
             if (correctedSituation.isOtherElevationInfoBetter(CAircraftSituation::FromCache, false) || (correctedSituation.isMoving() && correctedSituation.isOtherElevationInfoBetter(CAircraftSituation::FromProvider, false)))
             {
-                haveRequestedElevation = this->requestElevation(correctedSituation);
+                needToRequestElevation = this->requestElevation(correctedSituation);
             }
         }
 
-        Q_UNUSED(haveRequestedElevation)
+        Q_UNUSED(needToRequestElevation)
         return correctedSituation;
     }
 

src/blackcore/simulator.cpp

@@ -365,12 +365,13 @@ namespace BlackCore
         if (this->isShuttingDown()) { return; }
         if (plane.isNull()) { return; }
 
-        // update in simulator
+        // Update in remote aircraft for given callsign
-        ISimulationEnvironmentProvider::rememberGroundElevation(callsign, plane); // in simulator
+        bool updatedForOnGroundPosition = false;
+        const int updated = CRemoteAircraftAware::updateAircraftGroundElevation(callsign, plane, CAircraftSituation::FromProvider, &updatedForOnGroundPosition);
 
-        // and in remote aircraft for given callsign
+        // update in simulator
-        const int updated = CRemoteAircraftAware::updateAircraftGroundElevation(callsign, plane, CAircraftSituation::FromProvider);
+        const bool likelyOnGroundElevation = updated > 0 && updatedForOnGroundPosition;
-        Q_UNUSED(updated)
+        ISimulationEnvironmentProvider::rememberGroundElevation(callsign, likelyOnGroundElevation, plane); // in simulator
 
         // signal we have received the elevation
         // used by log display
@@ -877,7 +878,7 @@ namespace BlackCore
         {
             const int aircraftCount = this->getAircraftInRangeCount();
             this->setMaxElevationsRemembered(aircraftCount * 3); // at least 3 elevations per aircraft, even better as not all are requesting elevations
-            this->rememberGroundElevation(callsign, elevation);
+            this->rememberGroundElevation(callsign, false, elevation);
         }
 
         const QString modelString = model.getModelString();
@@ -1192,7 +1193,7 @@ namespace BlackCore
                     const CCallsign cs = situation.hasCallsign() ? situation.getCallsign() : ownAircraft.getCallsign();
                     const CLength radius = settings.getRecordedGndRadius().isNull() ? CElevationPlane::singlePointRadius() : settings.getRecordedGndRadius();
                     const CElevationPlane ep(situation, radius);
-                    const bool remembered = this->rememberGroundElevation(cs, ep, radius);
+                    const bool remembered = this->rememberGroundElevation(cs, situation.isOnGround(), ep, radius);
                     Q_UNUSED(remembered) // false means it was already in that cache, or something else is wrong
                 }
             }