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Mad dogs are MD-80s.

> A side effect of the geometry simplication is that there are some very small gaps between states. Based on your use case, you'll need to handle the case of the point not being within any state borders. In these rare cases, you could fall back to a different method, such as distance checking centroid points, adding an episilon to all state borders, or simply asking the user. (The user may also be in another country or in the ocean...)

This is a common topic and easily dealt with by working with topology-informed geometries; most simplification algorithms support topology handling between different features. For instance, TopoJSON can be used.

it depends on what flavour of English you speak. British English for instance tends to use plural for collective nouns.

This sounds like marshrutki. These are very common in post-Soviet countries to fill the demand left unmet by public transportation service.

the TCAS data would have been displayed. but not on instruments or in any place that you typically pay attention to the most during final visual approach (ie., mostly outside).

TCAS RAs are inhibited at low altitude.

yeah, and then you need to get refreshed orbital elements for those satellites. not good if you are in an airtight environment.

celestial ephemerides don't change nearly as much.

your point being?

...which is obviously designed to be maximally visible from the public space.

it's useless thence I love it.

I lied, in fact I just used it to create a couple Slack emojis.

> Plausibly, there is no real monitoring of co-orbiting bodies in space

[capable] nations operating sensitive satellites and other space assets absolutely are monitoring foreign objects maneuvering in their orbital vicinity.

not at all, I love it too

it's also not the proper scale type for sequential data (red/green is diverging, but there is no central value defined in the linked map).