Adapting the state grid for use as an overview/minimap. When you zoom in on a state the counties for that state are rendered. This technique could be used to render subsets of larget datasets at the appropriate zoom level.
Map zooming from /mbostock/2206590
forked from mbostock's block: State Grid
https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js
https://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js