Learning D3.js mapping : build stunning maps and visualizations using D3.js / Thomas Newton, Oscar Villarreal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Thomas, author.

Villarreal, Oscar, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Programming (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you are interested in creating maps for the web GIS data, this book is for you. Familiarity with D3.js will be helpful but is not necessary.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Gather Your Cartographer's Toolbox; Quick bootstrap; Step-by-step bootstrap; A lightweight web server; Optimizing geographic data files with TopoJSON; Using the web browser as a development tool; Installing the sample code; Working with the developer tools; Summary; Chapter 2: Creating Images from Simple Text; Introduction - general knowledge; Positioning elements; Line; Rectangle; Circle; Polygon; Path; Experiment; Paths with curves; Transform; Translate; Scale

GroupingText; Summary; Chapter 3: Producing Graphics from Data - the Foundations of D3; Creating basic SVG elements; Enter; Update; Exit; AJAX; Summary; Chapter 4: Creating a Map; Foundation - creating your basic map; Including the dataset; Experiment 1 - adjusting the bounding box; Experiment 2 - creating choropleths; Experiment 3 - adding click events to our visualization; Experiment 4 - using updates and transitions to enhance our visualization; Experiment 5 - adding points of interest; Experiment 6 - adding visualizations as a point of interest; Summary

Chapter 5: Click-click Boom! Applying Interactivity to Your MapEvents and how they occur; Experiment 1 - hover events; Experiment 2 - tooltips with visualizations; Experiment 3 - panning and zooming; Experiment 4 - orthographic projections; Experiment 5 - rotating orthographic projections; Experiment 6 - dragging orthographic projections; Summary; Chapter 6: Finding and Working with Geographic Data; GeoData file types; What are shapefiles and how do I get them?; Acquiring shapefiles for a specific country; GeoJSON; A quick map in D3 with only GeoJSON; TopoJSON basics

TopoJSON command-line tipsPreserving specific attributes; Simplification; Merging files; Summary; Chapter 7: Testing; Code organization and reusable assets; Project structure; Exploring the code directory; Other administrative files; Writing testable code; Keeping methods/functions small; Preventing side effects; An example with viz.js; Unit testing; Creating resilient visualization code; Adding a new test case; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2015).

ISBN:

9781783985616

1783985615