alt Hacker NewsIf you have less than hundreds of thousands of points, you can probably get away with drawing individual dots on the map. Computer screens are high res.
If you have less than hundreds of thousands of points, you can probably get away with drawing individual dots on the map. Computer screens are high res.
It's technically feasible to just draw all the individual dots but it doesn't necessarily convey the information better.
When individual points are drawn close together, they're hard to discern without zooming right in. Even with additive opacity, they max out quite quickly once a couple of dots overlap.