Faster, richer map charts — 3D pitch, smoother camera, big speed wins on dense data

Map charts in GeoSheet just got a major upgrade. We rebuilt the underlying renderer on top of WebGL — the same browser-level GPU technology that powers modern web maps — so the same chart types you've been using now feel substantially faster on rich spatial data, and pick up new tricks along the way.

3D pitch toggle

Every map chart now has a 2D/3D button in the bottom-right corner. Click it to tilt the camera 50° — handy for visualizing terrain, building density, or adding depth to a presentation. Click again to flatten.

Animated camera

Pan, zoom, and fit-to-bounds are now smooth animations instead of teleports. When Geovani zooms to a city, when you click a map series to focus it, or when a chart auto-fits after you add new data — the camera glides there in about half a second. Easier to follow visually, especially in screen recordings or live demos.

Smoother clustering and choropleth

• Clustering for point series uses the renderer's native engine. Clusters update fluidly as you zoom, with crisp circle bubbles showing abbreviated counts (10, 100, 1k).
• Choropleth fills (series that have a valueRange) now interpolate colors smoothly from light to your series color across the data range, making subtle differences easier to see at a glance.

Globe at world scale

At low zoom levels — when you're "looking at the whole world" — maps now render as a 3D globe and transition seamlessly to a flat projection as you zoom in. No setting required; it's the default.

Substantially faster on dense data

If you've ever loaded a doc with hundreds of polygons (a country boundaries dataset, a sales-territories file, a list of trade areas) and felt the spreadsheet itself slow down while the chart caught up, you'll feel the change immediately.

Internal profiling on a doc with 259 country polygons showed:

• Typing in any cell: ~3.2s of latency per keystroke → ~380ms (8.3× faster)
• Toggling a series's visibility: ~1.7s → ~500ms (3.3× faster)
• Editing chart properties: the chart's share of render time dropped from 99.8% to 29% per commit

The takeaway: map charts are no longer the dominant cost when you're working with rich spatial data. Spreadsheet interactions stay snappy even with hundreds of geometries on screen, and your hover/click responsiveness on the map itself improves in step.

No action needed on your end — the new renderer rolls out automatically to all GeoSheet documents. Existing map charts pick up the new look and performance the next time you open the doc.