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Re:What is your favourite tool to (geo) map thing? by jamil7 on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:38PM (#28992141)
If you need to render quite a lot of data look at one of the WebGL implementations, I switched from Leaflet to Maplibre GL for displaying around ~7k linestrings and saw huge performance gains.
Re:What is your favourite tool to (geo) map thing? by jstx1 on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:16AM (#28986472)
Leaflet.js (I've used it through the R and Python libraries)
Re:What is your favourite tool to (geo) map thing? by vgeek on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:21AM (#28987450)
Leaflet.js is your best bet. It is quick to start, has tons of plugins and can do a lot out of the box.

OpenLayers is probably a little more customizable, but has a steeper learning curve. If you're using PostGIS, you can probably handle much of the less common spatial manipulation there and use Leaflet to render, rather than the client side.

Re:What is your favourite tool to (geo) map thing? by sandyshankar on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @09:30AM (#29000156)
I recently came across Datasette. It lets you a build a map with a simple sqlite DB. Here is an example: https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plan...
Re:What is your favourite tool to (geo) map thing? by mapster on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:01PM (#29002062)
Mapbox since they create and host tilesets of my large data and I can spin up a map in minutes.