The world map was the only one that remembered anything. Panning and
zooming a map is the operator saying which part of the world they work,
and on the FT decodes map and the grid-square map that was thrown away on
every tab switch. Both now keep centre and zoom, through one shared
helper (lib/mapView) that the world map uses too, and the keys are
portable so a copied data folder brings the views with it.
The world map also waits for the station's square before it paints. It
drew the world at 0 degrees and then moved to the operator's longitude —
a screenful of Esri tiles fetched and discarded on every first run. It is
now built once, knowing where it is looking; a profile with no locator
gets the default view after two seconds rather than a blank panel.