Using d3-tile to display raster image tiles underneath some TopoJSON vectors, and d3-zoom for pan & zoom. This version adjusts the transform and stroke-width to update the displayed vector data efficiently. You can instead reproject interactively, but changing the transform is typically much faster. Also see the static version.
Tiles copyright OpenStreetMap contributors.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
}
path {
fill: none;
stroke: red;
stroke-linejoin: round;
stroke-width: 1.5px;
}
</style>
<svg></svg>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v4.min.js"></script>
<script src="//d3js.org/d3-tile.v0.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="//d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
<script>
var pi = Math.PI,
tau = 2 * pi;
var width = Math.max(960, window.innerWidth),
height = Math.max(500, window.innerHeight);
// Initialize the projection to fit the world in a 1×1 square centered at the origin.
var projection = d3.geoMercator()
.scale(1 / tau)
.translate([0, 0]);
var path = d3.geoPath()
.projection(projection);
var tile = d3.tile()
.size([width, height]);
var zoom = d3.zoom()
.scaleExtent([1 << 11, 1 << 14])
.on("zoom", zoomed);
var svg = d3.select("svg")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
var raster = svg.append("g");
var vector = svg.append("path");
d3.json("/mbostock/raw/4090846/us.json", function(error, us) {
if (error) throw error;
// Compute the projected initial center.
var center = projection([-98.5, 39.5]);
// Apply a zoom transform equivalent to projection.{scale,translate,center}.
svg
.call(zoom)
.call(zoom.transform, d3.zoomIdentity
.translate(width / 2, height / 2)
.scale(1 << 12)
.translate(-center[0], -center[1]));
vector
.attr("d", path(topojson.mesh(us, us.objects.counties)));
});
function zoomed() {
var transform = d3.event.transform;
var tiles = tile
.scale(transform.k)
.translate([transform.x, transform.y])
();
vector
.attr("transform", transform)
.style("stroke-width", 1 / transform.k);
var image = raster
.attr("transform", stringify(tiles.scale, tiles.translate))
.selectAll("image")
.data(tiles, function(d) { return d; });
image.exit().remove();
image.enter().append("image")
.attr("xlink:href", function(d) { return "//" + "abc"[d[1] % 3] + ".tile.openstreetmap.org/" + d[2] + "/" + d[0] + "/" + d[1] + ".png"; })
.attr("x", function(d) { return d[0] * 256; })
.attr("y", function(d) { return d[1] * 256; })
.attr("width", 256)
.attr("height", 256);
}
function stringify(scale, translate) {
var k = scale / 256, r = scale % 1 ? Number : Math.round;
return "translate(" + r(translate[0] * scale) + "," + r(translate[1] * scale) + ") scale(" + k + ")";
}
</script>