Dynamic map using D3 and TopoJSON with data from Natural Earth. The goal is to implement a performant nonintrusive background map at 1:50 million scale.
Natural Earth data is processed from the command-line to convert shape file to GeoJSON to TopoJSON. The data is reduced, quantized, and projected to Mercator to reduce file size and remove client side projection calculation.
The map is rendered using dynamic simplification and viewport clipping. The zoom level is based on a map tile of 256 x 256 pixels. Map panning is constrained to the y-axis.
Zoom in and out to see the map simplification along with states and cities at higher zoom levels.