Well I have a simple GeoJSON point object with lat/long coordinates. The document also stores a score of sorts and what I plan to do is limit the results to a certain number say 20 (although still not quite sure) and then sort by the score. This way people will only view the most interesting locations no matter if they are looking at a street level view or on a national level.

The way rethinkDB advises is to query by intersections of circles. So on the client I calculate the center of the map, and then the radius based on the edges of the screen. Then I send that to construct the circle and get all points within the circle. I am just unsure how I can organize these results and cache them within Redis (or a better alternative) for ease of retrieval.