toro - High-Performance Interactive Mapping

Interactive spatial visualisations are a cornerstone for exploring and communicating complexity, and are commonly embedded into reports or interactive dashboards. However, as the amount of data grows, so do the demands on functionality, especially for technical and scientific data. To bridge this gap and create a mapping package that is high performing, a modern approach is needed that draws from best software engineering practices. Toro provides bindings to 'MapLibre GL JS', an open-source 'JavaScript'/'TypeScript' library for rendering interactive maps in the browser, built from the ground up for responsiveness and scale, by the MapLibre Organization (2020) <https://github.com/MapLibre>. This connection allows users to create interactive maps that can easily be integrated into both 'Quarto' and the 'R Shiny' dashboard framework. Toro thereby enables spatial visualisation and exploration of data that might otherwise be too limited, too slow, or too hard to scale using more traditional interactive mapping tools such as 'leaflet'.