Notes on earth globe drawing

SamHasler, draws a sphere from an image, wrapping the image around the sphere.
https://github.com/SamHasler/sphere/blob/master/sphere.js

http://planetaryjs.com/examples/rotating.html

tutorial on D3, including a distance calc function (distance on a sphere)
http://www.maori.geek.nz/d3_js_geo_fun/

Graham Jenson, draw rotating world
http://bl.ocks.org/grahamjenson/8192485

line simplification on natural earth data
https://bost.ocks.org/mike/simplify/	

D3 geo translates points, used with either svc or canvas
https://d3js.org/
https://github.com/d3/d3

pretty map using svg gaussian blur and shadow around land areas 
http://geoexamples.blogspot.in/2013_12_01_archive.html

draw globe with d3 and canvas
http://geoexamples.blogspot.in/2013/02/mapping-with-d3js-canvas-or-svg.html

Natural Earth Data
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-raster-data/50m-natural-earth-2/

github OSM-Tilemill/Natural-Earthgis_data/10m-geography-regions-polys/
has polygons of mountains and deserts
https://github.com/polpols/OSM-Tilemill/archive/master.zip

Wikiatlas Localisator using D3.geo
https://bl.ocks.org/hugolpz/a62f1d61168eae985d5c

David Foster, draw graticule
http://bl.ocks.org/daf/a7f88869504785481e9d

Mike Bostock, draw globe with countries and graticule
https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3757125

topojson vs geojson
topojson produces smaller files and supports topology
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14740705/difference-between-geojson-and-topojson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoJSON

draw a polygon with the mouse, detect points within the polygon
this is with d3, but not d3-geo
http://bl.ocks.org/bycoffe/5575904

mouseover on countries, with svg, not canvas
http://bl.ocks.org/nkhine/2876083