A little update here.
First: we're two colleagues working on this, the dataprogrammer and me: the designer. My colleague is collecting a number of values from an weather API and porting them to mad mapper over OSC. All data is coming in and we're scaling them to fit the design. There is a number of issues that we haven't figured out yet and we're still a little confused.
Main problem is that the faults don't seem consistent.
Strings come in like you illustrate, but only when I manually change the text box.
Some value data come in every refresh (2000 milliseconds) in max (Y-position in output of MAD) If I move the surface around it pops back like its supposed to, but in some cases it don't.
Some data, formatted exactly the same way, only update if I change the input. First it pops back to the previous value for a tent of a second, then over to the new value. Very confusing.
Any Idea what might be a good place to search for a solution?
-my programmer is pretty confident the problem should sit somewhere in how MAD receives the values.