D3.js geoNaturalEarth() Function

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The function geoNaturalEarth() is used to return the Natural Earth projection.

Syntax :

d3.geoNaturalEarth()

Parameters: This method does not accept any parameters.

Return Value: This method creates and returns geoNaturalEarth() projection from given JSON data.

Example 1: The following example creates geoNaturalEarth() projection of the world with the center at (0, 0) and no rotation.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html lang="en">  
  
<head>  
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />  
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,  
                initial-scale=1.0" />  
  
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.js"></script>  
  
    <script src=  
"https://d3js.org/d3-geo-projection.v2.min.js">  
    </script>  
</head>  
  
<body>  
    <div style="width:700px; height:600px;">  
        <svg width="700" height="550">  
        </svg>  
    </div>  
  
    <script>  
        var svg = d3.select("svg"),  
            width = +svg.attr("width"),  
            height = +svg.attr("height");  
  
        // Natural Earth projection  
        // Center(0,0) and no rotation  
        var gfg = d3.geoNaturalEarth() 
            .scale(width / 1.5 / Math.PI)  
            .rotate([0, 0])  
            .center([0, 0])  
            .translate([width / 2, height / 3])  
  
        // Loading the json data  
        d3.json("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/" 
            +"epistler999/GeoLocation/master/world.json",  
            function (data) {  
                // Draw the map  
                svg.append("g")  
                    .selectAll("path")  
                    .data(data.features)  
                    .enter().append("path")  
                    .attr("fill", "black")  
                    .attr("d", d3.geoPath()  
                        .projection(gfg)  
                    )  
                    .style("stroke", "#ffff")  
            })  
    </script>  
</body> 
  
</html>

Output:

Example 2: In the following example we will create geoNaturalEarth() projection of the world with the center at (30, 0) and rotating 30 degrees anti-clockwise with respect to Y-axis.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html lang="en">  
  
<head>  
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />  
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,  
                initial-scale=1.0" />  
    <script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v4.js"></script>  
    <script src=  
"https://d3js.org/d3-geo-projection.v2.min.js">  
    </script>  
</head>  
  
<body>  
    <div style="width:700px; height:600px;">  
        <svg width="700" height="550">  
        </svg>  
    </div>  
  
    <script>  
        var svg = d3.select("svg"),  
            width = +svg.attr("width"),  
            height = +svg.attr("height");  
  
        // geoNaturalEarth() projection  
        // Center(30, 0) and 30 degree rotation  
        var gfg = d3.geoNaturalEarth() 
            .scale(width / 1.5 / Math.PI)  
            .rotate([-30, 0])  
            .center([30, 0])  
            .translate([width / 2, height / 2])  
  
        // Loading the json data  
        // Used json file stored at  
        // https://raw.githubusercontent.com/epistler999/  
        // GeoLocation/master/world.json 
        d3.json("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/" 
            +"epistler999/GeoLocation/master/world.json",  
            function (data) {  
                // Draw the map  
                svg.append("g")  
                    .selectAll("path")  
                    .data(data.features)  
                    .enter().append("path")  
                    .attr("fill", "black")  
                    .attr("d", d3.geoPath()  
                        .projection(gfg)  
                    )  
                    .style("stroke", "#ffff")  
            })  
    </script>  
</body>  
  
</html>  