![Your mapping toolkit Tip #1 - reducing border complexity](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/04/mapping_toolkit1-702x336.png)
With the advent of things like car GPS & Google Maps, and a steady supply of nice maps from certain news sources (such as the New York Times), people have finally embraced the idea that mapping data can be very useful. And if you are into data visualization, you have