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Using a WebWorker as a tile server for more compressed underlying data is a clever approach!

Are you doing anything special to compute the totals in real-time, or just summing over the entire selection each time the cursor moves?

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just summing the selection area around the cursor

Displaying so many points is something spatial people have struggled with for a long time. Would you consider writing a leaflet plugin that helps with your approach?

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