new grid: 'Americas'

[MathildeMousset]

A tentative grid of South, central and North America.

I tried out different options for South America. I am not sure how people read these maps: is the global shape of the continent more important than trying to respect local geography (one expect these countries to be near each other)? It may depend of the type of the map and the people reading it. In this case, I assumed that people would be interested in local relationships between countries (is one country influencing its neighbours?). But I would love your opinion on grid design.

Exemple of a map made using this grid:. It represent Covid19 cases counts in the past 60 days per countries (data from John Hopkins University). Not the most inspired, but here we go.

Grid data:

name,code,row,col
Canada,CA,1,1
Bahamas,BS,2,6
Puerto Rico,PR,2,7
United States,US,2,1
Dom. Rep.,DO,3,7
Haiti,HT,3,6
Cuba,CU,3,5
Mexico,MX,3,1
Jamaica,JM,4,5
Belize,BZ,4,3
Guatemala,GT,4,1
Honduras,HN,4,2
El Salvador,SV,5,1
Nicaragua,NI,5,2
Costa Rica,CR,6,2
Panama,PA,6,3
Trinid. Tob.,TT,6,6
Venezuela,VE,7,5
Colombia,CO,7,4
Guyana,GY,7,6
Suriname,SR,7,7
Ecuador,EC,8,4
Brazil,BR,8,7
Peru,PE,9,4
Bolivia,BO,9,5
Paraguay,PY,9,6
Chile,CL,10,4
Uruguay,UY,10,6
Argentina,AR,10,5
Falkland Isl.,FK,11,5

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[hafen]

Added in https://github.com/hafen/grid-designer/pull/8

[hafen]

Added in https://github.com/hafen/grid-designer/pull/8