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Reproject USA + Alaska & Hawaii moved

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AAlan McConchie
Last edited May 5, 2016
Created on May 5, 2016

This visualization displays the contiguous United States with Alaska and Hawaii repositioned southwest of the lower 48 states. The map uses CartoDB’s SQL interface to reproject state geometries from the Natural Earth 50m admin boundaries dataset. It applies ST_Transform to convert the lower 48 into US National Atlas Equal Area projection (2163), while Alaska and Hawaii are scaled and translated using ST_Scale and ST_Translate from their native projections (3338 and 26961). The rendered preview is a static PNG image embedded in the HTML page.

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SQL for CartoDB to reproject the USA, with Alaska and Hawaii moved to the southwest of the lower 48

Modified from https://gist.github.com/ohasselblad/223582a53d5960c50a86

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