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Blocky Counties

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This example uses path.bounds to draw the projected bounding box for each county. Compare to the lat-lon bounding box using d3.geo.bounds.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>

path {
  fill: none;
  stroke: steelblue;
}

</style>
<body>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="//d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
<script>

var width = 960,
    height = 500;

var projection = d3.geo.albersUsa()
    .scale(1000)
    .translate([width / 2, height / 2]);

var path = d3.geo.path()
    .projection(projection);

var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
    .attr("width", width)
    .attr("height", height);

d3.json("/mbostock/raw/4090846/us.json", function(error, us) {
  if (error) throw error;

  svg.append("path")
      .attr("d", topojson.feature(us, us.objects.counties).features
          .filter(function(d) { return d.geometry && d.geometry.coordinates.length; })
          .map(function(d) { var b = path.bounds(d); return "M" + b[0] + "H" + b[1][0] + "V" + b[1][1] + "H" + b[0][0] + "Z"; })
          .join(""));
});

</script>