Polymaps + D3

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://github.com/mbostock/d3/raw/v1.8.4/d3.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://github.com/simplegeo/polymaps/raw/v2.4.0/polymaps.js"></script>
    <style type="text/css">

@import url("https://github.com/simplegeo/polymaps/raw/v2.4.0/examples/example.css");

html, body {
  height: 100%;
  background: #E6E6E6;
  margin: 0;
  font: 10px sans-serif;
}

svg {
  display: block;
}

circle {
  stroke: black;
  fill: brown;
  fill-opacity: .5;
}

#map {
  width: 960px;
  height: 500px;
}

</style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="map"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">

var po = org.polymaps;

// Create the map object, add it to #map…
var map = po.map()
    .container(d3.select("#map").append("svg:svg").node())
    .zoom(8)
    .add(po.interact());

// Add the CloudMade image tiles as a base layer…
map.add(po.image()
    .url(po.url("https://{S}tile.cloudmade.com"
    + "/1a1b06b230af4efdbb989ea99e9841af" // https://cloudmade.com/register
    + "/998/256/{Z}/{X}/{Y}.png")
    .hosts(["a.", "b.", "c.", ""])));

// Add the custom stations layer…
map.add(stations("stations.json"));

// Add the compass control on top.
map.add(po.compass()
    .pan("none"));

// Custom layer implementation.
function stations(url) {
  var data;

// Create the base layer object, using our tile factory.
  // Note that the layer isn't tiled; only one tile per world.
  var layer = po.layer(load)
      .tile(false);

// Load the station data. When the data comes back, reload.
  d3.json(url, function(json) {
    data = json;
    layer.reload();
  });

// Custom tile implementation.
  function load(tile, projection) {
    projection = projection(tile).locationPoint;

// Add an svg:g for each station.
    var g = d3.select(tile.element = po.svg("g")).selectAll("g")
        .data(d3.entries(data))
      .enter().append("svg:g")
        .attr("transform", transform);

// Add a circle.
    g.append("svg:circle")
        .attr("r", 4.5);

// Add a label.
    g.append("svg:text")
        .attr("x", 7)
        .attr("dy", ".31em")
        .text(function(d) { return d.key; });

function transform(d) {
      d = projection({lon: d.value[0], lat: d.value[1]});
      return "translate(" + d.x + "," + d.y + ")";
    }
  }

return layer;
}

</script>
  </body>
</html>

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/raw/v1.8.4/d3.js

https://github.com/simplegeo/polymaps/raw/v2.4.0/polymaps.js