Equirectangular (Plate Carrée)
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Mmbostock
Last edited Oct 21, 2018
Created on Sep 20, 2012
This example demonstrates the equirectangular (Plate Carrée) projection, a simple geographic mapping where latitude and longitude are plotted linearly on a flat grid. The visualization displays world landmasses in dark gray and country boundaries in white, overlaid with a graticule grid at half opacity. The code uses d3.geoEquirectangular to define the projection, d3.geoPath for rendering, and topojson to parse world-50m.json data. The map is drawn as SVG paths with styling for land, boundaries, and graticule layers.
AI-generated descriptionThe equirectangular projection is available as d3.geo.equirectangular. See also the rotating version.
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