A “tilegram” is a map made of tiles where regions are sized proportionally to a dataset.
You can read more in our blog post or the manual.
Despite many deprecations, npm v10.24.1 can install this project when it can call python2 (Python 2.7). Other setups might work.
After cloning the repository, run:
npm i
Run
npm start
Then access http://localhost:8080/.
To generate deployable assets, run:
npm run build
They will be written to dist/.
JavaScript is written in ES2015 using Babel. Styles are written in SASS. All assets are preprocessed with webpack.
The Maker also depends on a pre-release npm version of topogram
(formerly cartogram.js) as seen in
this PR.
US states map: Natural Earth Data
Germany constituency map: Bundeswahlleiter.de © Der Bundeswahlleiter, Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden 2016, Wahlkreiskarte für die Wahl zum 19. Deutschen Bundestag Basis of the geological information © Geobasis-DE / BKG (2016)
This software is distributed under the ISC license.