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Adding names to places
license: mit

This small example was made to answer a quesition on the d3noob.org blog about how to add the names of the cities beside the dots.

code city country lat lon
ZNZ ZANZIBAR TANZANIA -6.13 39.31
TYO TOKYO JAPAN 35.68 139.76
AKL AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND -36.85 174.78
BKK BANGKOK THAILAND 13.75 100.48
DEL DELHI INDIA 29.01 77.38
SIN SINGAPORE SINGAPOR 1.36 103.75
BSB BRASILIA BRAZIL -15.67 -47.43
RIO RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL -22.90 -43.24
YTO TORONTO CANADA 43.64 -79.40
IPC EASTER ISLAND CHILE -27.11 -109.36
SEA SEATTLE USA 47.61 -122.33
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
path {
stroke: white;
stroke-width: 0.25px;
fill: grey;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.17/d3.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://d3js.org/topojson.v0.min.js"></script>
<script>
var width = 960,
height = 500;
var projection = d3.geo.mercator()
.center([0, 5 ])
.scale(200)
.rotate([-180,0]);
var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
var path = d3.geo.path()
.projection(projection);
var g = svg.append("g");
// load and display the World
d3.json("world-110m2.json", function(error, topology) {
// load and display the cities
d3.csv("cities.csv", function(error, data) {
g.selectAll("circle")
.data(data)
.enter()
.append("a")
.attr("xlink:href", function(d) {
return "https://www.google.com/search?q="+d.city;}
)
.append("circle")
.attr("cx", function(d) {
return projection([d.lon, d.lat])[0];
})
.attr("cy", function(d) {
return projection([d.lon, d.lat])[1];
})
.attr("r", 5)
.style("fill", "red");
g.selectAll("text")
.data(data)
.enter()
.append("text") // append text
.attr("x", function(d) {
return projection([d.lon, d.lat])[0];
})
.attr("y", function(d) {
return projection([d.lon, d.lat])[1];
})
.attr("dy", -7) // set y position of bottom of text
.style("fill", "black") // fill the text with the colour black
.attr("text-anchor", "middle") // set anchor y justification
.text(function(d) {return d.city;}); // define the text to display
});
g.selectAll("path")
.data(topojson.object(topology, topology.objects.countries)
.geometries)
.enter()
.append("path")
.attr("d", path)
});
// zoom and pan
var zoom = d3.behavior.zoom()
.on("zoom",function() {
g.attr("transform","translate("+
d3.event.translate.join(",")+")scale("+d3.event.scale+")");
g.selectAll("circle")
.attr("d", path.projection(projection));
g.selectAll("path")
.attr("d", path.projection(projection));
});
svg.call(zoom)
</script>
</body>
</html>
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