Efficient way of accessing large data sets to display on Leaflet

Question

I have a global database of objects (points on a map) that I would like to show on a Leaflet map. Instead of loading all the database (simply too big) at once and creating the objects on a Leaflet LayerGroup, is there a more efficient way to go about querying data, perhaps as each map tile loads, or am I looking at creating a custom solution for this?

Answer 1

You could watch the 'moveend' event on map with map.on('moveend',loadstuff), make an ajax call inside loadstuff() to grab markers inside the current map.getBounds(), and then add/remove markers(I would assume you have some sort of global identifier for each of them) whether they are inside or outside the current view.