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+- Cut the stutter while zooming and panning with Street Traffic on in dense
+  cities. Coarse roads are no longer clipped against every detail tile in one
+  task, roads already parsed in a load are not parsed again, and ground floors
+  are read once per cell (mazy1998, #1705).