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Selecting Countries on a Canvas Globe

Uses a second canvas with different fill colors for each country to detect which country is highlighted.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {
background: #fcfcfa;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
<script>
var width = 960,
height = 600,
speed = 1e-2,
start = Date.now();
var sphere = {type: "Sphere"};
var projection = d3.geo.orthographic()
.scale(height / 2.1)
.translate([width / 2, height / 2])
.clipAngle(90)
.precision(.5);
var graticule = d3.geo.graticule();
var canvas = d3.select("body").append("canvas")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
var context = canvas.node().getContext("2d");
var path = d3.geo.path()
.projection(projection)
.context(context);
var hiddenCanvas = d3.select("body").append("canvas")
.attr("width", width)
.attr("height", height);
var hiddenContext = hiddenCanvas.node().getContext("2d");
var hiddenProjection = d3.geo.equirectangular()
.translate([width / 2, height / 2])
.scale(width / 7);
var hiddenPath = d3.geo.path()
.projection(hiddenProjection)
.context(hiddenContext);
d3.json("world-110m.json", function(error, topo) {
var selected = false;
var land = topojson.feature(topo, topo.objects.land),
borders = topojson.feature(topo, topo.objects.countries),
grid = graticule();
var fillToCountry = {};
var i = borders.features.length;
while (i--) {
hiddenContext.beginPath();
hiddenPath(borders.features[i]);
hiddenContext.fillStyle = "rgb(" + i + ",0,0)";
hiddenContext.fill();
}
d3.timer(function() {
projection.rotate([speed * (Date.now() - start), -15]);
context.clearRect(0, 0, width, height);
context.beginPath();
path(sphere);
context.lineWidth = 3;
context.strokeStyle = "#000";
context.stroke();
context.beginPath();
path(sphere);
context.fillStyle = "#fff";
context.fill();
context.beginPath();
path(land);
context.fillStyle = "#222";
context.fill();
context.beginPath();
path(borders);
context.lineWidth = .5;
context.strokeStyle = "#fff";
context.stroke();
context.beginPath();
path(grid);
context.lineWidth = .5;
context.strokeStyle = "rgba(119,119,119,.5)";
context.stroke();
if (selected !== false) {
context.beginPath();
path(borders.features[selected]);
context.fillStyle = "#0ad";
context.fill();
}
});
canvas
.on("mousemove", select)
.on("touchstart", select);
function select() {
var pos = d3.mouse(this);
var latlong = projection.invert(pos);
var hiddenPos = hiddenProjection(latlong);
if (hiddenPos[0] > -1) {
var p = hiddenContext.getImageData(hiddenPos[0], hiddenPos[1], 1, 1).data;
selected = p[0];
context.beginPath();
path(borders.features[selected]);
context.fillStyle = "#0ad";
context.fill();
} else {
selected = false;
}
};
});
d3.select(self.frameElement).style("height", (2*height) + "px");
</script>
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