Tilegrams

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.

Development

Setup

After cloning the repository, run:

npm i

Running

Run

npm start

Then access http://localhost:8080/.

Deploying

To generate deployable assets, run:

npm run build

They will be written to dist/.

Dependencies

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.

Data Sources

Population Data

Electoral Votes Data

GDP Data

License

This software is distributed under the ISC license.