Ground requests driven by placeholder rules ask for 14–16 ft of ground nobody can show, and the copy misdescribes the span #75

After upload, the server asks for 14–16 ft of ground in front of the wall, driven only by the placeholder pool and driveway distances. Nobody could show that much ground in any of the three runs, and the card misdescribes where the stretch is.

Seen in. Device field test of TestFlight build 4.1 (beta at 45017ba), iPhone 14 without LiDAR, iOS 26.6.2.

• Run 1 (indoor mock wall), video 5:43–6:05. Report: run 1, A41-1-08.
• Run 2 (the same wall), video 3:55–4:33. Report: run 2, A41-2015-07.
• Run 3 (a real house), video 1:42–1:45. Report: run 3, A41-2055-10.

What happens.

Tester in run 2: "About 16 feet from the wall. So where is that? … What exactly do you want me to try and see? … the place where you want me to be is in the wall, so I can't get there."

Problems:

• The depth comes from the pool (10 ft) and driveway (5 ft) distances plus error. Both are placeholder: true in rules.yaml, with no public source. A 14–16 ft clear view is a big ask in many yards, and here it is asked for on the strength of placeholder numbers.
• The card doesn't say why (to check for a pool or a driveway).
• "Around your meter" is shown for a whole-wall span, and "About 19 ft right" for a span that runs from 4 ft to 33 ft.

Cause.

• Server: _missing_json merges every check's missing views per band and asks for the deepest one (out_ft = max(depths)), with no regard to whether that check's rule is a placeholder (solver.py#L1274-L1296; rules at rules.yaml#L57-L58).
• App: the card's place is Distance.aroundFromMeter, which says "around your meter" whenever the span contains the meter and otherwise names the span's middle (Distance.swift#L69-L75, used by ScanCopy.swift#L251-L264).

Fix direction.

• Server: don't raise a band request driven only by placeholder rules, or cap its depth at what a homeowner can reasonably show; list those checks for the installer instead.
• Server: say which check a request is for, so the app can say "to check for a pool within 10 ft".
• App: describe the span as a range ("from 4 ft to 19 ft right of your meter"), clipped to the wall's ends.

Related. A41-1-08, A41-2015-07, A41-2055-10; #39 ("N more views to finish" with one shown); "Still needed" asks for wall past a limit end (wall to 26 ft 2 in; the wall ends at 19 ft 9 in).

Screen recordings are in the comment below.