I wanted a shower curtain with a map of the world with a projection other than Mercator.

I couldn't find one (in my lazy search) that was an interesting projection and covered the whole curtain. Since it's possible to print anything because the internet, I decided to make my own.

I decided on a tessellated Peirce Quincuncial projection, e.g.

Tessellated Peirce quincuncial projection from Wikipedia

Since custom, might as well go all in, programming ftw

Tessellated map

Use d3-geo-projection

Some resources:

First - I copied what Jason Davies did (including stealing his topojson).

What do the maps show?

It would be cool if the maps each showed something different and interesting. Some things I think might be interesting:

  • Country names
  • Water
  • Population
  • Wealth

Disclaimer: I'm a map dilettante and know nothing about d3. Everything here is done wrong.