How To Employ Grid Maps
Most of the successful UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland election maps over the concluding calendar week bring used hexagon grid maps or patently square grid maps.
The npr Visuals Team has published an interesting article exploring the blueprint choices that they made for using hexagon grid maps inwards to a greater extent than or less of their recent information visualizations. Let’s Tesselate: Hexagons For Tile Grid Maps explains why as well as how the Visuals Team bring been creating hexagon grid maps for a issue of mapped visualizations on NPR.
If y'all desire to practise your ain USA state grid maps y'all tin follow Kyle Walkers tutorial on how he created a grid map to demo obesity past times state inwards the USA. Obesity past times state, 2013: a CartoDB state squares experiment uses a state squares GeoJSON file shared by Bill Dollins on his GitHub repository.
Just for the hell of it I decided to practise my ain Leaflet.js foursquare grid map from the same GeoJSON file. Kyle Walker's CartoDB map has added obesity information for each state to the GeoJSON. My Leaflet map has no added information (so all y'all tin practise is hover over each state to reveals its name).
You tin explore the HTML of my map to run across how it is made. Essentially it is simply a thing of loading Bill Dollin's state squares GeoJSON data.
You tin explore the HTML of my map to run across how it is made. Essentially it is simply a thing of loading Bill Dollin's state squares GeoJSON data.