Uber’s engineering team open sourced deck.gl, a WebGL-powered framework specifically designed for exploring and visualizing data sets at scale. Uber can explore GPS traces for a given trip to get full context if there’s an accident on the road. Uber also can communicate plans to city authorities by visualizing pain points if there are pain points around pickup locations in a city. The engineering team developed deck.gl to meet the needs that the data should be web-based, real-time, and shareable.
deck.gl’s set of features adapts to a wide range of use cases, including mapping. It enhanced map-related visualizations in many different mapping environments. Here’s an example of mapping use case. deck.gl dealt with large data sets: 2M points and 36K taxi trips in NYC with live GPU interpolation.
If you are interested. you can check demo here. It’s amazing.
Reference: https://eng.uber.com/deck-gl-framework/