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propublica / stateface

A typeface of U.S. state shapes to use in web apps.
http://propublica.github.com/stateface/
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Puerto Rico Glyph Not Present #6

Closed zsteiner closed 9 years ago

zsteiner commented 11 years ago

The glyph for Puerto Rico shows up as "3" in both the StateFace website (http://propublica.github.com/stateface/) and when used with downloaded files. Is a glyph for Puerto Rico planned? Is there any work on adding other territories?

kleinmatic commented 11 years ago

A Puerto Rico glyph is in the works and should be in very soon. Sorry for the delay. What other territories would be useful? Can't make any promises but...

zsteiner commented 11 years ago

Thank you for the reply, Scott. The main ones that we need are Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, but all the territories would be useful (Guam, Marshall Islands, American Samoa, North Mariana Islands).

Can we help out adding the territories? We should be able to generate SVG outlines for the territories. We use d3.js for some mapping in our system and it creates SVG outlines. I looked at Glyphs Mini and creating the font glyphs is out of my skill set, but , if SVGs would help, that's doable.

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thejefflarson commented 11 years ago

Hi Zach,

It'd be a great help if you generate the vector files for the territories. We have a tool that outputs eps's for us here:

https://github.com/propublica/stateface/tree/master/tools

You'll need gdal and cairo to use it. Once you have those installed you can run:

$ make $ ./font-for-us

We use the state plane srid's for each state from here:

https://github.com/propublica/stateface/blob/master/tools/state-planes.rb

But the tool will handle reprojecting for you. Just so we have the geographic sources available, can you also put the shapefiles you use in this directory?

https://github.com/propublica/stateface/tree/master/tools/us-states

Thanks!

--Jeff

thejefflarson commented 11 years ago

Puerto Rico is in, so I think we can close this,have you made any progress on the other territories?

petulla commented 8 years ago

@thejefflarson Is there still interest in adding the territories? I'm willing to pick this up.