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Document buildings and levels where the old single-map model was still taught
The 0.11.0 release changed what a map position means and six documents still
described the model it replaced. Each of these could have caused a real mistake
rather than being merely out of date:

- IMPORT-API mapped legacy mapleft/maptop to mapx/mapy with no mention of the
  level, so a scripted import - including the classic-ASP one still to run
  against production - would have produced markers the map shows as "level
  unknown". It now maps levelid too and says how to resolve the default level.
- API-REFERENCE enumerates the unauthenticated surface in full, because that is
  what a deploy reviewer reads, and the three public /api/maplevels reads were
  missing from it. Also records why the write split is asymmetric: repositioning
  needs assets.edit, creating a level needs admin, since a level's dimensions are
  the coordinate space every marker on it is expressed in.
- CONFIG still presented the four map_* settings as live, telling the reader to
  re-upload a blueprint in a settings page that no longer drives the map. They
  are marked superseded and kept for downgrade.
- UPGRADE gained a 0.11.0 section: nothing moves on screen, and replacing a
  blueprint with one of different dimensions moves every marker on that level, so
  recalibrate from landmarks rather than editing width and height.
- PLUGIN-HOOKS now states that a map overlay keys on assetid and must not return
  coordinates or a level - a second copy of a position is one that can disagree.

Adds FLOOR-MAP.md, the operator's page: loading a plan, placing markers, and
what to do when the plan changes, with the reasoning left in ADR-017. START-HERE
routes to it from the new-site path, and specifically as the page to read BEFORE
a floor plan changes.
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# Start here
ShopDB is a per-site asset platform: one instance per plant, plugins for what
each site tracks. These pages document the server, the plugin contract, and the
tools that run on shop-floor PCs.
Find yourself below. Each row is the shortest correct path, not everything that
exists.
## I am standing up ShopDB at a new site
1. [INSTALL-WINDOWS](INSTALL-WINDOWS.md) - one offline installer, start to finish.
2. [OPERATE-WINDOWS](OPERATE-WINDOWS.md) - restart, logs, backups, upgrades.
3. [CSV-IMPORT](CSV-IMPORT.md) if the site's data is in spreadsheets, or
[IMPORT-API](IMPORT-API.md) if there is a source database to script against.
4. [FLOOR-MAP](FLOOR-MAP.md) - load the site's floor plans and place markers.
Also the page to read BEFORE a plan changes: it covers moving every marker
onto a redrawn plan without doing it one at a time.
**Do not** follow [INSTALL-WINDOWS-IIS](INSTALL-WINDOWS-IIS.md) for a new site.
That is the manual procedure, kept for hand-built servers that predate the
installer, and following it produces a server the installer then refuses to
upgrade.
## I am deploying the shop-floor tools
Read [FLEET-ARCHITECTURE](FLEET-ARCHITECTURE.md) first - it is one page and it
is what makes the rest make sense.
Then [ADOPTING-AT-ANOTHER-SITE](ADOPTING-AT-ANOTHER-SITE.md), which has worked
examples for Intune, GE-Enforce and manual installation, and says where each
artifact comes from.
## I am writing a plugin
1. [PLUGIN-QUICKSTART](PLUGIN-QUICKSTART.md) - scaffold and first run.
2. [PLUGIN-HOOKS](PLUGIN-HOOKS.md) - the contract. Authoritative.
3. [PLUGIN-LAB-PRINTEDPARTS](PLUGIN-LAB-PRINTEDPARTS.md) - a real plugin built
end to end, to type along with.
4. [PLUGIN-EXTERNAL-REPO](PLUGIN-EXTERNAL-REPO.md) if it lives in its own
repository, and [CONTRACT-STABILITY](CONTRACT-STABILITY.md) before you choose
a version pin.
## I am integrating with the API
1. [LLM-GUIDE](LLM-GUIDE.md) (`docs/llms.txt` in the repo, also served at
`/api/docs/llms.txt`) - auth, the response envelope, common recipes.
Short, and the envelope section is the part people get wrong.
2. `GET /api/docs` on any running instance - the full spec, browsable.
3. [API-REFERENCE](API-REFERENCE.md) for prose, [COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION](COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md)
if you are feeding data in from a PC.
## I am trying to understand why something is built this way
[The ADRs](ADR-001-asset-as-platform-contract.md). They are the decision record,
they say what was rejected and why, and they are the fastest way to avoid
relitigating a settled question. [PROJECT-MAP](PROJECT-MAP.md) lists them all
with their status, along with the current versions and every migration head -
it is generated, so it is never stale.
## Something is broken
- Server: [OPERATE-WINDOWS](OPERATE-WINDOWS.md), then `shopdb-admin.ps1 check -Json`.
- A PC or a bay: the symptom table at the end of
[FLEET-ARCHITECTURE](FLEET-ARCHITECTURE.md) says which piece to open first.
- A deploy that half-worked: [UPGRADE](UPGRADE.md) and
[BACKUP-RESTORE](BACKUP-RESTORE.md).