Comment on D3, Conceptually - Lesson 2Comments−novalis13yOn a tangent to another one of these great lessons, I have to ask this. Does anyone have a correct D3 world json file with the missing countries and islands ?−oscilloscope13yBe sure to use the recently released TopoJSON world map, though it doesn't have comprehensive islands.http://bl.ocks.org/4180634TopoJSON is a variant of GeoJSON that supports shape simplification, map coloring, cartograms and other topology-related features.https://github.com/mbostock/topojsonFor small geographic features like tiny islands, try the new d3.geo.tile plugin with a high-resolution tileset.http://bl.ocks.org/4162068 https://github.com/d3/d3-plugins/tree/master/geo/tileTileMill can create tilesets from shapefiles and other formats. It can export GeoJSON for D3 too.http://mapbox.com/tilemill/More examples:http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock http://bl.ocks.org/jasondavies http://bl.ocks.org/tmcw−novalis13yThank you for the links oscilloscope, jit resources. Not having Malta in there was killing any european biz intel graph.
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On a tangent to another one of these great lessons, I have to ask this. Does anyone have a correct D3 world json file with the missing countries and islands ?
Be sure to use the recently released TopoJSON world map, though it doesn't have comprehensive islands.
http://bl.ocks.org/4180634
TopoJSON is a variant of GeoJSON that supports shape simplification, map coloring, cartograms and other topology-related features.
https://github.com/mbostock/topojson
For small geographic features like tiny islands, try the new d3.geo.tile plugin with a high-resolution tileset.
http://bl.ocks.org/4162068 https://github.com/d3/d3-plugins/tree/master/geo/tile
TileMill can create tilesets from shapefiles and other formats. It can export GeoJSON for D3 too.
http://mapbox.com/tilemill/
More examples:
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock http://bl.ocks.org/jasondavies http://bl.ocks.org/tmcw
Thank you for the links oscilloscope, jit resources. Not having Malta in there was killing any european biz intel graph.