Version 1 (epic)

[curran]

The premise of this project is to facilitate siiiiick data visualizations on maps, particularly choropleth maps with drill down interactions for the entire world.

Principle goals:

• Each country may have it's own unique project (along the lines of Albers USA)
• Transitions between projectsions should be smoothly animated (e.g. Alaska moving down the screen when drilling into US)
• Extensible for subtle cartographic details (e.g. labels for regions and cities, with internationalization, adding a roads layer, adding a rivers layer)

Rough TODOs:

• Get canvas rendering working for geo shapes with line simplification for smooth performance, using a technique like this one https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/6252418 (may be built-in with modern D3 - see https://github.com/d3/d3-geo#projection_precision)
• Import/simplify GADM boundary files
• Implement drill down
• Implement drill up
• Implement breadcrumbs utilities
• Add a labeling layer for administrative regions (SVG)
• Add a labeling layer for major cities (SVG)
• Join with some sample data to produce a choropleth example
• Join with some sample data to produce a bubble map example
• React wrapper (or build the thing in React to begin with? Not sure...)