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Merging States
license: gpl-3.0
.DS_Store
build
node_modules

Using topojson.merge to merge states & provinces into a single feature from the Natural Earth 1:10,000,000 Admin 1 dataset.

The orange arc is an artifact of the merge that might either be a bug in the merge algorithm or in the dataset (or both).

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
.graticule {
fill: none;
stroke: #777;
stroke-opacity: .5;
stroke-width: .5px;
pointer-events: none;
}
.land {
fill: #222;
stroke: orange;
}
.border {
fill: none;
stroke: #fff;
stroke-width: .5px;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="//d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
<script>
var width = 960,
height = 960;
var projection = d3.geo.mercator()
.scale(width / 2 / Math.PI)
.translate([width / 2, height / 2])
.precision(.1);
var path = d3.geo.path()
.projection(projection);
var graticule = d3.geo.graticule();
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
svg.append("path")
.datum(graticule)
.attr("class", "graticule")
.attr("d", path);
d3.json("world.json", function(error, world) {
if (error) throw error;
svg.insert("path", ".graticule")
.datum(topojson.merge(world, world.objects.states.geometries))
.attr("class", "land")
.attr("d", path);
svg.insert("path", ".graticule")
.datum(topojson.mesh(world, world.objects.states, function(a, b) { return a !== b; }))
.attr("class", "border")
.attr("d", path);
});
d3.select(self.frameElement).style("height", height + "px");
</script>
GENERATED_FILES = \
world.json
all: $(GENERATED_FILES)
clean:
rm -rf -- $(GENERATED_FILES)
.PHONY: all clean
build/ne_10m_%.zip:
mkdir -p $(dir $@)
curl -o $@ "http://www.nacis.org/naturalearth/10m/cultural/ne_10m_$*.zip"
build/ne_%_admin_1_states_provinces.shp: build/ne_%_admin_1_states_provinces_shp.zip
mkdir -p $(dir $@)
unzip -od $(dir $@) $<
for file in $(dir $@)/ne_$*_admin_1_states_provinces_shp.*; do mv $$file $(dir $@)/ne_$*_admin_1_states_provinces"$${file#*_shp}"; done
touch $@
world.json: build/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.shp
node_modules/.bin/topojson \
-o $@ \
-q 1e5 \
--simplify-proportion .1 \
-- states=$<
{
"name": "anonymous",
"version": "0.0.1",
"private": true,
"dependencies": {
"topojson": "1"
}
}
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