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+- Draw only the CCTV cameras in view, and thin them to one per ground cell when
+  zoomed out. Dragging the globe with the default 4,000-camera catalog no
+  longer stalls, and the camera picker lists the cameras in view with a count
+  of the ones outside it (samehkhamis, #1485).