World Map
Jon Combe has produced a highly detailed world map using the canvas HTML element.
The demo allows you to style the map with a variety of predefined colours matching sites such as Google Maps and BBC News, but also allows you to select your own colours too. You can also zoom in on countries should you not wish to display an entire world map.
Canvas Demos style World Map
If you’re interested where I got my data from I downloaded a big file from Wikimedia Commons which I opened in Adobe Illustrator where I plotted the country outlines. I then exported this as an SVG file and using a little jQuery looping jiggerypokery I extracted the coordinates.
Jon has released the source as free software under the MIT Licence; but would love to know if you do use it.
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