The purpose of this map as detailed on Daily Kos is to represent the congressional districts in the United States accurately. Currently it is difficult to show the districts because some such as those in New York City are very small, while others like Montana are the size of an entire state. Previosly the maps needed to be zoomable to see the districts containing cities. Other represntations such as cartograms warped the country's shape. This map attempts to fix that by giving each congressional district equal area i.e. five regular hexagons.
According to the original Daily Kos article, the map was built by Daniel Donner.
I did not design the map. This project's purpose is to port the map to a more useable format. I ported the map t