Automatic route detours around populated areas — problem statement is up

[Mission-analyzer]

Mission Analyzer can already flag mission legs that pass too close to a settlement. The next step is making it fix that automatically — reshape the route so it clears the safety threshold, without turning the mission into a mess of extra waypoints or accidentally creating a new violation while patching an old one.

Wrote up the approach before the code lands, so the reasoning is on record: what "optimal" actually means here (route length, not distance from settlements), why naive point-by-point patching doesn't work, and the method we're using instead — a tangent visibility graph around circular exclusion zones, solved with Dijkstra.

Full writeup with the multi-obstacle case, fuel budget handling (ICAO Annex 6), and the waypoint-count limit: 👉 route_optimization_community_post.md

Code in a few days.