Improved performance for your maps

Sam Matthews
Thu, 19 May 2016 10:00:00 -0400

Your maps are about to get faster thanks to some newly updated vector tiles and a soon-to-be-released version of Mapbox GL JS using Earcut.

Check out this side-by-side video of Mapbox GL JS 0.19-dev and 0.18 on an old laptop.

Custom dataset from Natural Earth bathymetry.

Stay tuned for an in-depth explanation of Earcut and these improvements.