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Russian research stations in Antarctica

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LLuisSevillano
Last edited Apr 4, 2016
Created on Apr 4, 2016

A static map of Antarctica displays the locations of Russian research stations. Station names are rendered as labels near point markers, with the continent's coastline drawn in gray. The visualization uses a stereographic projection and is built with the Spam.js library for canvas rendering. Station data is loaded from a TSV file via `d3.tsv`, with geographic boundaries provided by a TopoJSON file parsed using `topojson.feature`. The map is created through a `StaticCanvasMap` instance, which projects coordinates and paints features.

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A static map of Antarctica made with Spam.js. Forked from Martín Gonzalez's block Russian research stations in Antarctica

Data from Wikipedia. The labels are parsed with d3.tsv from an external file.

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