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Texas vs the North East

If my hometown in Montgomery, New York were to overlay my current location in Austin, Texas.

Experimenting with qGIS, ogr2ogr and TopoJSON.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<body>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
<script>
var width = 960,
height = 500;
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
d3.json("mystates.topo.json", function(error, map) {
var projection = d3.geo.albers().scale(2600).translate([width/2, 0])
var path = d3.geo.path().projection(projection);
var colors = d3.scale.category20b();
svg.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(0,-85)")
.attr("clip-path", "url(#texas)")
.selectAll('path')
.data(topojson.feature(map, map.objects.mystates).features)
.enter()
.append("path")
.attr("d", path)
.attr("id", function(d) {
return d.id;
})
.attr("fill", function(d, idx) {
if ( d.id === "TX" ) return 'none';
return colors(idx)
})
.style("stroke", "#666")
.style("stroke-width", function(d) {
if ( d.id === "TX" ) return 1.5;
return 0.5;
})
//apply mask
svg.append("defs")
.append("clipPath")
.attr("id", "texas")
.append("path")
.attr("d", function() {
return d3.select("#TX").attr("d");
});
var montgomery = {
lat: 41.523333,
lng: -74.236944,
id: "MON"
};
var austin = {
lat: 30.25,
lng: -97.75,
id: "AUS"
};
svg.select("g").selectAll("circle").data([montgomery,austin])
.enter()
.append("circle")
.attr("id", function(d) {
return d.id;
})
.attr("r", function(d) {
if ( d.id === "MON" ) return 3;
return 2000;
})
.attr("fill", "none")
.style("stroke", "#fa0fa0")
.attr("cx", function(d) {
return projection([d.lng, d.lat])[0]
})
.attr("cy", function(d) {
return projection([d.lng, d.lat])[1]
}).transition()
.delay(200)
.duration(2000)
.attr("r", 3)
//move other states in
svg.select("g").selectAll("path:not(#TX),circle:not(#AUS)")
.transition()
.delay(2000)
.duration(4000)
.attr("transform", "translate(-814,404)rotate(9)")
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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