A few days ago, I learned about a map visualization libary called Polymaps from FlowingData (Design advanced online and interactive maps with Polymaps). This weekend, I resolved to play with it and come up with something useful. The Texas Tribune has a neat Flash based map of county-by-county election turnouts. My goal for this weekend……

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I finally got around to updating my canvas / sql visualization code. Interacting with the map is now much easier. And I’ve posted a live demo of it here: http://crccheck.com/demo02 It’s not as refined as google maps, but it’s still pretty fancy. Navigation is done in the minimap, and you can draw on the large…

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