Alternatively D3 is capable of rendering to HTML5 Canvas, a raster graphics format, if you prefer images instead of SVG. Feel free to skip ahead to the next section otherwise.ĭ3’s native rendering environment is the HTML Document Object Model (DOM), and most often it’s used to generate Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a subset of the DOM that is a flexible format for creating graphics which works well for both the web and print. If you’re not familiar with D3JS and its usefulness when it comes to creating geographic maps, here’s a short primer. In fact, the primary author of D3JS, Mike Bostock, created it while working as a graphics editor at the NY Times! However, many news outlets such as the New York Times use D3 for both their interactive and print graphics. When using D3JS one typically thinks of its utility for creating highly customized, dynamic, and interactive visualizations for the web not for making static graphics for print.
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It assumes that you are familiar with a vector graphics editing software such as Adobe Illustrator, but if you aren’t you may still find parts of this post helpful. The rest of this blog post will be describing how I went about creating maps using D3JS in a way that was suitable for print. I ended up settling on the second option and I’m happy to say that I’m satisfied with the results. So what to do? I felt that my options were to either try to make the maps entirely in QGIS, using the Print Composer feature, or to explore making the maps using D3JS in the browser and exporting the rendered graphics for print some how.
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Even if I did decide to shell out the $1,399 for a new license, at the time of this writing I didn’t have a computer that I could install it on that fit the system requirements.
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Unfortunately MAPublisher is not free nor is it open source, and the computer I happen to have a license on has just about bit the dust. Previously I’ve used a combination of QGIS, the free and open source desktop GIS software and MAPublisher, a plugin for Adobe Illustrator that allows for working with geospatial vector data in Illustrator. This was partly due to the fact that I no longer had access to one of the necessary pieces of software I’ve used in the past for creating print maps. Knowing from the outset of the project that the deliverables would be for print, and not the web, forced me to think about the design and development process in a slightly different way. The Atlas project seeks to compile many of AEMP’s interactive web maps and writings, plus some brand new work. These visualizations will eventually be included in the Anti Eviction Mapping Project’s forthcoming Atlas, to be published by PM Press. I’ve chosen to do this through creating a series of maps and charts made with D3JS, the popular data visualization library for the web.
Recently I’ve been working on a project that attempts to visualize how various job sectors have changed in the San Francisco Bay Area over time. Towards a D3JS Web to Print Cartography Workflow
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