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Published inOct 2013
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Nick Zhu
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Nick Zhu is a professional programmer and data engineer with more than a decade experience in software development, big data, and machine learning. Currently, he is one of the founders and CTO of Yroo.com - meta search engine for online shopping. He is also the creator of dc.js—a popular multidimensional charting library built on D3.
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Projecting the US map


In this recipe we are going to start with projecting the US map using D3 geo API, while also getting familiar with a few different JSON data formats for describing geographic data. Let's first take a look at how geographic data are typically presented and consumed in JavaScript.

GeoJSON

The first standard JavaScript geographic data format we are going to touch upon is called GeoJSON. GeoJSON format differs from other GIS standards in that it was written and is maintained by an Internet working group of developers.

GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic data structure. A GeoJSON object may represent geometry, a feature, or a collection of features. GeoJSON supports the following geometry types: Point, LineString, Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, MultiPolygon, and GeometryCollection. Features in GeoJSON contain a geometry object and additional properties, and a feature collection represents a list of features.

Source: http://www.geojson.org/

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Nick Zhu

Nick Zhu is a professional programmer and data engineer with more than a decade experience in software development, big data, and machine learning. Currently, he is one of the founders and CTO of Yroo.com - meta search engine for online shopping. He is also the creator of dc.js—a popular multidimensional charting library built on D3.
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