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Better big data support for `scattermapbox`

See original GitHub issue

We’re getting Dash apps through the roof that use scattermapbox. Would be nice <strike>to see how far we can push the # of points with a WebGL overlay instead of an SVG one</strike> to improve big data support for scattermapbox traces.

Maybe we could investigate: https://github.com/vicapow/react-map-gl-stack-gl-overlay-example

This plot of 🌳 s in Manhattan for example is starting to push the mapbox-gl limits:

https://plot.ly/~jackluo/444

/cc @jackwluo @dfcreative

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Created 6 years ago
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etpinardcommented, Jul 17, 2017

I think you mean the mapbox-gl limits? scattermapbox renders all things in using mapbox-gl which uses purely WebGL. No SVG whatsoever here. Editing ⤴️ accordingly.

I think we should investigate other pure mapbox-gl solutions before doing this:

find what are those pure mapbox-gl limits i.e. try to plot the as many as possible using only mapbox-gl (not via the plotly.js wrapper)
plotly.js uses mapbox-gl@0.22.1, which more than 10 minor versions behind the mapbox-gl latest, so we should test bleeding edge mapbox-gl to see if the rendering better
try mapbox-gl clustering.