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Learning D3.js 5 Mapping - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787280175
Pages 298 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (3):
Thomas Newton Thomas Newton
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Oscar Villarreal Oscar Villarreal
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Lars Verspohl Lars Verspohl
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface Gathering Your Cartography Toolbox Creating Images from Simple Text Producing Graphics from Data - the Foundations of D3 Creating a Map Click-Click Boom! Applying Interactivity to Your Map Finding and Working with Geographic Data Testing Drawing with Canvas and D3 Mapping with Canvas and D3 Adding Interactivity to Your Canvas Map Shaping Maps with Data - Hexbin Maps Publishing Your Visualization with GitHub Pages

Experiment 1 – adjusting the bounding box

Now that we have our foundation, let's start with our first experiment. For this experiment, we will manually zoom into a state of Mexico using what we learned in the previous section. The code can be found in example-2.html (http://localhost:8080/chapter-4/example-2.html); however, feel free to edit example-1.html to learn as you go.

For this experiment, we will modify one line of code:

  var b = path.bounds(states.features[5]); 

Here, we are telling the calculation to create a boundary based on the sixth element of the features array instead of every state in the country of Mexico. The boundaries data will now run through the rest of the scaling and translation algorithms to adjust the map to the one shown in the following screenshot:

We have basically reduced the min/max of the boundary box to include the geographic coordinates...

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