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by riotnrrd 201 days ago
All cables? Everywhere in the entire country? Accurate to the centimeter level and updated on the hour?

Edit: This was flippant, but the real issues are: any map you get will be incomplete and obsolete almost immediately and cables move and sway in the breeze.

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It doesn’t need to be at the cm level. Giving them a 10m berth should be fine.
A 10m berth from wires would exclude a substantial proportion of houses in my city.
Then they shouldn’t be flying in your city.

As is apparently becoming obvious.

I can’t think of a major city I’ve been to on earth where 10M from a hung cable is realistic outside of some suburbs and rural areas.

    > I can’t think of a major city I’ve been to on earth
Does Manhattan count? I am pretty sure south of 96th street has no above ground utilities.