Census Dotmap + Reference

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var dotTypeOptions = {
  getTileUrl: function(coord, zoom) {
      //var ret = "tiles/"+zoom+"/"+coord.x+"/"+coord.y+".png";
      if( zoom <= 7 ){
       var ret = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/dotmap_tiles/"+zoom+"/"+coord.x+"/"+coord.y+".png";
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      var ret = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/dotmap_tiles/"+zoom+"/"+coord.x+"/"+coord.y+".png";
        var ret = "https://mt"+((coord.x+coord.y)%4)+".bmander.com/tiles/"+zoom+"/"+coord.x+"/"+coord.y+".png";
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return ret;

},
  tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256),
  maxZoom: 14,
  minZoom: 4,
  name: "Census dots"
};

var lat = 39.0;
var lon = -96.341308;
var zoom = 4;

function setViewportFromArgs(){
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  if( urlhash != "" ){
    urlhash = urlhash.substring(1); //remove the hash 
    var parts = urlhash.split("&");

var dotMapType = new google.maps.ImageMapType(dotTypeOptions);
var map;

function initialize() {
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  wax.tilejson('https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/landplanner.map-73h9vsq0.jsonp', function(tilejson) {
  var myLatlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lon);
  var mapOptions = {
    center: myLatlng,
    zoom: zoom,
    streetViewControl: false,
    backgroundColor:"ffffff",
    mapTypeControlOptions: {
      mapTypeIds: ["dot", google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP],
      style: google.maps.MapTypeControlStyle.DEFAULT
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map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"),
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  map.mapTypes.set('dot', dotMapType);
  map.setMapTypeId('dot');
  map.overlayMapTypes.insertAt(0, new wax.g.connector(tilejson));
}

function roundToPlace(x,places){
  return Math.round(x*Math.pow(10,places))/Math.pow(10,places);
}

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      <h1>Census Dotmap</h1>
      <h3>What's all this?</h3>
      <p>This is a map of every person counted by the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses. The map has <b>341,817,095</b> dots - one for each person.</p>
      <h3>Why?</h3>
      <p>I wanted an image of human settlement patterns unmediated by proxies like city boundaries, arterial roads, state lines, &amp;c. Also, it was an interesting challenge.</p>
      <h3>Who is responsible for this?</h3>
      <p>The US and Canadian censuses, mostly. I made the map. I'm <a href="https://twitter.com/ewedistrict">Brandon Martin-Anderson.</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kieran">Kieran Huggins</a> came to the rescue with spare server capacity and technical advice once this took off.</p>
      <h3>How?</h3>
      <p>I wrote a Python script to generate points from US Census block-level counts, and then generated the tiles with Processing. Here's <a href="methods.html">more detail for the interested</a>.</p>
      <h3>I don't see dots. I see smudges.</h3>
      <p>The dots are very small. Try zooming in.</p>
      <h3>Nobody lives in Central Park/Pier 12/County Lockup/Abandoned Themepark.</h3>
      <p>The census reported that someone lived there.</p>
      <h3>This says someone lives in the middle of a lake.</h3>
      <p>The census reported that someone lives in a block which includes a lake, and that's where their dot was randomly placed. Also, some people live in the middle of lakes.</p>
      <a href="#" onclick="window.location.hash='lat='+roundToPlace(map.getCenter().lat(),6)+'&lon='+roundToPlace(map.getCenter().lng(),6)+'&z='+map.getZoom();return false;" style="margin-top:10px;background-color:#ffeeee">link to this map</a>
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