This is the code for Chapter 7, Figure 15 from D3.js in Action showing how to create an isometric map using the d3.geo.satellite() projection.
<html>
<head>
<title>D3 in Action Chapter 7 - Example 6</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.geo.projection.v0.min.js" type="text/JavaScript"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/queue.v1.min.js" type="text/JavaScript"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/colorbrewer.v1.min.js" type="text/JavaScript"></script>
</head>
<style>
svg {
height: 500px;
width: 500px;
border: 1px solid gray;
}
.countries {
fill: red;
fill-opacity: .5;
stroke: black;
stroke-width: 1px;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="viz">
<svg>
</svg>
</div>
<div id="controls" />
</body>
<footer>
<script>
queue()
.defer(d3.json, "world.geojson")
.defer(d3.csv, "cities.csv")
.await(function(error, file1, file2) { createMap(file1, file2); });
function createMap(countries, cities) {
expData = countries;
width = 500;
height = 500;
projection = d3.geo.satellite()
.scale(1330)
.translate([250,250])
.rotate([-30.24, -31, -56])
.tilt(30)
.distance(1.199)
.clipAngle(45)
geoPath = d3.geo.path().projection(projection);
var mapZoom = d3.behavior.zoom().translate(projection.translate()).scale(projection.scale()).on("zoom", zoomed);
d3.select("svg").call(mapZoom);
function zoomed() {
var currentRotate = projection.rotate()[0];
projection.translate(mapZoom.translate()).scale(mapZoom.scale());
d3.selectAll("path.graticule").attr("d", geoPath);
d3.selectAll("path.countries").attr("d", geoPath);
d3.selectAll("circle.cities")
.attr("cx", function(d) {return projection([d.y,d.x])[0]})
.attr("cy", function(d) {return projection([d.y,d.x])[1]})
.style("display", function(d) {return parseInt(d.y) + currentRotate < 45 && parseInt(d.y) + currentRotate > -45 ? "block" : "none"})
}
featureSize = d3.extent(countries.features, function(d) {return geoPath.area(d)});
countryColor = d3.scale.quantize().domain(featureSize).range(colorbrewer.Reds[7]);
var graticule = d3.geo.graticule();
d3.select("svg").append("path")
.datum(graticule)
.attr("class", "graticule line")
.attr("d", geoPath)
.style("fill", "none")
.style("stroke", "lightgray")
.style("stroke-width", "1px");
d3.select("svg").selectAll("path.countries").data(countries.features)
.enter()
.append("path")
.attr("d", geoPath)
.attr("class", "countries")
.style("fill", function(d) {return countryColor(geoPath.area(d))})
.style("stroke-width", 1)
.style("stroke", "black")
.style("opacity", .5)
d3.select("svg").selectAll("circle").data(cities)
.enter()
.append("circle")
.attr("class", "cities")
.style("fill", "black")
.style("stroke", "white")
.style("stroke-width", 1)
.attr("r", 3)
.attr("cx", function(d) {return projection([d.y,d.x])[0]})
.attr("cy", function(d) {return projection([d.y,d.x])[1]})
.style("display", function(d) {return parseInt(d.y) -30.24 < 45 && parseInt(d.y) -30.24 > -45 ? "block" : "none"})
}
</script>
</footer>
</html>
"label","population","country","x","y"
"San Francisco", 750000,"USA",37,-122
"Fresno", 500000,"USA",36,-119
"Lahore",12500000,"Pakistan",31,74
"Karachi",13000000,"Pakistan",24,67
"Rome",2500000,"Italy",41,12
"Naples",1000000,"Italy",40,14
"Rio",12300000,"Brazil",-22,-43
"Sao Paolo",12300000,"Brazil",-23,-46