Natural Earth

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Last edited Oct 21, 2018

Created on Jan 7, 2013

This example demonstrates the Natural Earth projection, a pseudo-cylindrical map projection that balances the appearance of landmasses with minimal shape distortion. It renders a world map from a TopoJSON dataset, displaying country borders and land areas as filled paths, with a graticule overlay and a spherical outline. The visualization uses D3.js v3 with the `d3.geo.naturalEarth` projection, `d3.geo.path`, and `d3.geo.graticule` APIs to draw vector graphics as SVG elements. The code loads world geography data from a gist-hosted JSON file and applies styling for land, boundaries, and graticule strokes.

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The Natural Earth projection is available as d3.geo.naturalEarth in the geo.projection D3 plugin.

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