Plan recent-photo tooling and reference-anchored generation

MEMORY.md

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 ## Decisions
 
+- **Recent-photo research, gitignored (2026-11-03):** Commons geosearch around the El Capitan block
+  found usable last-12-months imagery (Dolby billboards 2026-09-30 CC0 x6, Dolby street + fresh star
+  2026-07-17 CC0, El Capitan frontage with an impersonator 2026-02-25 CC BY-SA 4.0, Celia Cruz
+  marker and a star series 2025-09-28 CC0, Thunderbolts premiere 2025-04-28 CC BY-SA 2.0). Eight
+  candidates downloaded to `tmp/research/elcapitan-2026/` with `meta.json` — **never commit these**;
+  committed references still go through the sidecar licence gate. Finding: no recent photo frames
+  the El Capitan facade straight-on in daylight; the 2009 CC BY facade frame stays the geometry
+  reference. Geosearch (`generator=geosearch`, `ggscoord`, radius, `ggsnamespace=6`) is the reliable
+  "photos of this exact location" query; keyword search is not. Plan for reference-anchored
+  generation (`--reference`) is in TODO before any tool code is written.
 - **TV Studio shares the Hollywood location (2026-11-03, owner clarification):** the Late Night TV
   Studio venue is **the same** El Capitan Entertainment Centre block at 6840 Hollywood Blvd (the
   building houses *Jimmy Kimmel Live!*), restaged for a late-night arrival with a bulb canopy, black