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Main Authors: Bahadori, Tarlan, Eldawy, Ahmed
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10270
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author Bahadori, Tarlan
Eldawy, Ahmed
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Eldawy, Ahmed
contents Interactive visualization is a common tool for exploring large open-data repositories, where users quickly explore datasets across diverse domains. When it comes to large-scale spatial data, many existing tools rely on server-side rendering to produce small images that can be viewed at the client-side. However, most users prefer client-side rendering that allows quick styling of the data for better visualization experience. This paper presents HiFIVE, a data-management framework for scalable, high-fidelity client-side geospatial visualization. We formalize the visualization-aware tile reduction problem, which captures the trade-off between tile-size and visualization distortion, and prove its NP-hardness. HiFIVE introduces a two-stage solution combining triage and sparsification to selectively prune records, attributes, and values based on information-theoretic and spatial criteria. Experiments demonstrate substantial tile-size reductions while preserving visual fidelity and interactive performance at terabyte scale.
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spellingShingle HiFIVE: High-Fidelity Vector-Tile Reduction for Interactive Map Exploration
Bahadori, Tarlan
Eldawy, Ahmed
Databases
Interactive visualization is a common tool for exploring large open-data repositories, where users quickly explore datasets across diverse domains. When it comes to large-scale spatial data, many existing tools rely on server-side rendering to produce small images that can be viewed at the client-side. However, most users prefer client-side rendering that allows quick styling of the data for better visualization experience. This paper presents HiFIVE, a data-management framework for scalable, high-fidelity client-side geospatial visualization. We formalize the visualization-aware tile reduction problem, which captures the trade-off between tile-size and visualization distortion, and prove its NP-hardness. HiFIVE introduces a two-stage solution combining triage and sparsification to selectively prune records, attributes, and values based on information-theoretic and spatial criteria. Experiments demonstrate substantial tile-size reductions while preserving visual fidelity and interactive performance at terabyte scale.
title HiFIVE: High-Fidelity Vector-Tile Reduction for Interactive Map Exploration
topic Databases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10270