Most of the successful United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland election maps over the end calendar week accept used hexagon grid maps or manifestly square grid maps.
The npr Visuals Team has published an interesting article exploring the blueprint choices that they made for using hexagon grid maps inward roughly of their recent information visualizations. Let’s Tesselate: Hexagons For Tile Grid Maps explains why in addition to how the Visuals Team accept been creating hexagon grid maps for a issue of mapped visualizations on NPR.
If y'all desire to practise your ain USA nation grid maps y'all tin follow Kyle Walkers tutorial on how he created a grid map to demo obesity past times nation inward the USA. Obesity past times state, 2013: a CartoDB nation squares experiment uses a nation 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 nation to the GeoJSON. My Leaflet map has no added information (so all y'all tin practise is hover over each nation to reveals its name).
You tin explore the HTML of my map to encounter how it is made. Essentially it is only a thing of loading Bill Dollin's nation squares GeoJSON data.
You tin explore the HTML of my map to encounter how it is made. Essentially it is only a thing of loading Bill Dollin's nation squares GeoJSON data.
