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React card clicks don't move an imperative map by themselves. Three small bridges: a ref registry, a synthetic click, and flyTo.
TL;DR: Maplibre markers only toggle popups via clicks that bubble from their element to the map, so force-calling popup.addTo is unreliable. The fix bridges the gap with a ref-based registry that stashes focus requests until map load fires. A synthetic bubbling click plus flyTo moves the camera, and a seq counter lets repeat clicks on the same card retrigger.