D3 Examples - Orthographic Zoom III

Orthographic Zoom III
A third attempt at panning and zooming with Orthographic projection. This version shows country boundaries, renders at a lower resolution while panning and zooming, and renders at a higher resolution after stopping.
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <svg width="960" height="500"></svg>
  <script>
    const svg = d3.select('svg');
    const path = svg.append('path').attr('stroke', 'gray');
    const citiesG = svg.append('g');
    const projection = d3.geoOrthographic();
    const initialScale = projection.scale();
    const geoPath = d3.geoPath().projection(projection);
    let moving = false;
    d3.queue()
      .defer(d3.json, 'https://unpkg.com/world-atlas@1/world/110m.json')
      .defer(d3.json, 'https://unpkg.com/world-atlas@1/world/50m.json')
      .defer(d3.csv, 'geonames_cities100000.csv')
      .await((error, world110m, world50m, cities) => {
        const countries110m = topojson
          .feature(world110m, world110m.objects.countries);
        const countries50m = topojson
          .feature(world50m, world50m.objects.countries);
      
        const w = 960, h = 500;
        const center = [w/2, h/2];
​
        const render = () => {
          path.attr('d', geoPath(moving ? countries110m : countries50m));
          const circles = citiesG.selectAll('circle').data(cities);
          circles.enter().append('circle')
            .merge(circles)
              .attr('cx', d => projection([d.longitude, d.latitude])[0])
              .attr('cy', d => projection([d.longitude, d.latitude])[1])
              .attr('fill', d => {
                  const coordinate = [d.longitude, d.latitude];
                  gdistance = d3.geoDistance(coordinate, projection.invert(center));
                  return gdistance > 1.57 ? 'none' : 'steelblue';
              })
              .attr('fill-opacity', 0.5)
              .attr('r', 2);
        };
        render();
​
        let rotate0, coords0;
        const coords = () => projection.rotate(rotate0)
          .invert([d3.event.x, d3.event.y]);
​
        svg
          .call(d3.drag()
            .on('start', () => {
              rotate0 = projection.rotate();
              coords0 = coords();
              moving = true;
            })
            .on('drag', () => {
              const coords1 = coords();
              projection.rotate([
                rotate0[0] + coords1[0] - coords0[0],
                rotate0[1] + coords1[1] - coords0[1],
              ])
              render();
            })
            .on('end', () => {
              moving = false;
              render();
            })
            // Goal: let zoom handle pinch gestures (not working correctly).
            .filter(() => !(d3.event.touches && d3.event.touches.length === 2))
          )
          .call(d3.zoom()
            .on('zoom', () => {
              projection.scale(initialScale * d3.event.transform.k);
              render();
            })
            .on('start', () => {
              moving = true;
            })
            .on('end', () => {
              moving = false;
              render();
            })
          )
      });
  </script>
</body>
    