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supercluster
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mapbox / supercluster

supercluster

A very fast geospatial point clustering library for browsers and Node.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.4KGitHub stars
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A very fast geospatial point clustering library for browsers and Node.

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Observed mentions: 2020-12-08 18:37:44 UTC to 2025-08-26 17:07:16 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I'm building Concert Map [1], an interactive map of live music events all over the world. I was frustrated with how difficult it was to find concerts and festivals when travel plans are flexible. Questions like: - Is there any show I could catch on my next cross country road trip? - I want an excuse to visit Seattle this summer, is there a good weekend I could pick where I could see live music there or along the way? - I like to travel for one big music festival per year, is there a good match for me anywhere in the country, or abroad? The idea behind concert map is to show all events on a map, and highlight the "most relevant" events for any area, so you can skim through the map and find events that are worth the travel. The "relevant" events depend on the view context. If you import your top artists, then the most relevant events are on
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es with artists that you listen to most. Otherwise, it's based on global artist popularity. I'm currently working on integrating with more event providers, and working on loading performance. I've been using leaflet.js [2] which has worked great, but I'm experimenting with switching to supercluster [3]. [1] https://www.concert-map.com/ [2] https://leafletjs.com/ [3] https://github.com/mapbox/supercluster
In Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2025)?
Thank you! I'd also like to list some of the building blocks of GL JS that remain open source and are heavily used in other open source projects: - GeoJSON-VT (fast GeoJSON processing) https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-vt - Earcut (triangulating polygons) https://github.com/mapbox/earcut - Supercluster (point clustering) https://github.com/mapbox/supercluster - vt-pbf (converting GeoJSON tiles to VT) https://github.com/mapbox/vt-pbf - vector-tile (decoding vector tiles) https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-js - pbf (fast reading/writing of protobuf) https://github.com/mapbox/pbf - TinySDF (generating SDF from local CJK fonts) https://github.com/mapbox/tiny-sdf - Potpack (generating sprite layouts) https://github.com/mapbox/potpack - grid-index (spatial index for collisions/querying) https://github.com/mapbox/grid-index - Pixelmatch (imag
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e comparison in render tests) https://github.com/mapbox/pixelmatch - Polylabel (fitting labels into polygons) https://github.com/mapbox/polylabel
In Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license

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