Support Polygon for tile_bounds !
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Description
## Motivation
When working with raster layers we often have parse data or not `square` source, resulting in really poor performance (because mapbox-gl-js is trying to load tiles that don't exist.)
I understand that support polygons (or even Multipolygons) will also impact the performance but I'd like to see if this could be an alternative.
## Design Alternatives
> "do nothing" an option
Sure this is not something that have to be implemented but will be a nice to have 🙉
## Design
Not sure if @mourner have a really light and performance `polygon` intersection algorithm we could use 😄
The best option will be to keep this as invisible as possible for the user, which will either pass a `[number, number, number, number]` or a geojson like polygon feature representing the bounds.
### Concepts
> Where do the concepts set new precedents?
Well this could set some precedents where user could ask for more feature type support (e.g multi-poylgon) or to support this kind a `bounds` in other api.
Thanks
👼 🙏
I'll be happy to start a sketch PR... but might not be the best person to do it
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Research direction
Start by tracing how tile_bounds is handled for raster layers and how mapbox-gl-js decides which tiles to load. The issue names no files, tests, or implementation entry points, and its proposed polygon input and intersection behavior are still open; done would require an agreed design plus implementation and coverage for polygon bounds.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100