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by bckygldstn 3628 days ago
It seems like it would be an excellent method if you could address the outlier issue though. One approach would be to relax the rectangles, so the outer one only has to circumscribe 95% of the country's area.

A similar approach is used in biology to define animal territories: A kernel density estimate is taken of historical animal positions and thresholded, rather than a minimum convex polygon.