[ ] try defining box (aka slice) grid in a way that snail can quickly split gridfinder lines and GPPD powerplants to boxes
[ ] try raster reproject/mask operation to get population with targets; or snail slice target geoms - whether zonal-statistics or polygons-from-raster is slower?
Changes to output:
[ ] split transmission lines on country boundaries, record "interconnector" nodes in a way that it's possible to remove/disable those connections from the network
[ ] clip transmission lines to box/slice boundary, with artificial connection nodes on edge recorded in connector .json output
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steps for speed:snail
can quickly split gridfinder lines and GPPD powerplants to boxesChanges to output: