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💡 What:
The optimization implements a bounding box early-exit strategy in the clusterAmenities function. It also optimizes the initial mapping phase by pre-processing amenity definitions and using a Set for lookups.

🎯 Why:
The previous implementation used a nested O(N^2) loop where every pair of amenities was compared using the expensive Haversine distance formula (calculateDistance). This led to noticeable performance degradation as the number of amenities increased.

📊 Measured Improvement:
Using a custom benchmark with 5,000 items in a 0.1-degree range:

  • Baseline: ~950ms
  • After Optimization: ~470ms
  • Improvement: ~50% reduction in execution time.
    For larger datasets (10,000 items), the duration dropped from ~2800ms to ~1400ms.

Correctness was verified with new tests in js/api/overpass_clustering.test.js and existing tests in npm test.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 17679647930944249427 started by @julaub

- Implement bounding box early exit in clusterAmenities loop to reduce O(N^2) Haversine calculations.
- Pre-process amenity definitions to avoid redundant string splitting in the main loop.
- Use Set for effectiveAmenities lookup.
- Fix bug where coordinates at (0,0) were treated as falsy.
- Performance improved by ~50% for typical datasets.

Co-authored-by: julaub <22884742+julaub@users.noreply.github.com>
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