[rmaps_engine_switcher]
Tiny dots, huge datasets, zero icon assets
When you need to plot tens of thousands of points without the cost of rendering shaped icons, switch the map's marker source to Just dots: pure SVG circles drawn straight on the canvas. Pick a colour and a radius, and the same map keeps clustering, searching and filtering — just at a fraction of the per-frame paint cost.
What's on this map
Pure dots, no icon assets
Markers ship as plain SVG circles drawn on the engine's native vector layer — no PNG sprites, no icon font, no per-marker DOM node. Set the radius in pixels and the fill colour once on the map; every listing inherits them.
Built for huge datasets
Dot mode is the marker source we hand the heaviest maps — 50k + listings render without the per-icon paint tax. The cluster layer paints first, then dots stream in batches; pan / zoom stays smooth all the way down.
One colour, one size
The marker source's Color and Size fields drive every dot on this map. Bump the radius for a heatmap-style splatter, dial it down for a pin-point cluster preview — changes apply live on the next render pass.
Clusters still apply
Dots fold into the same five-tier coloured clusters as icon markers — green → yellow → orange → red → purple as density climbs. Click a cluster to dive into it and break the cloud back into individual dots.
Search & filter unchanged
Radius search, keyword autocomplete, categories, locations and the custom-list filters all run against the dot layer exactly the same way they do against icon markers. Tick Open now or drag the radius and only matching dots survive.
Engine-agnostic
Dots are rendered through each engine's native primitive — Google's Circle, Mapbox / MapLibre's circle layer. Flip the engine via the switcher above the map; the dots come back at the same colour and size.
Try this
- Zoom out — watch the dots fold into colour-tiered clusters; zoom back in to scatter them.
- Flip the engine from Google to Mapbox or MapLibre with the switcher above the map — dot rendering survives the swap.
- Open the Edit map screen → Markers → Just dots, change the colour or size, save — the next page load picks up the new look.
- Run a radius search from the search panel — only matching dots stay on the map.
- Drag the map at maximum density — the dot layer keeps painting smoothly thanks to the batched stream.