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How to draw bubbles on a D3 Map with mercator projection?


I made a world map in D3 with a mercator projection and trying to draw circles/bubbles as well, but they are not showing up on the map. I am using the same projection for the paths for the map as for the circles to calculate the cx and cy projections, but get the following error in my code below:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'coordinates' of null

  var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 20, left: 20};  

  var w = 1100 - margin.left - margin.right;

  var h = 900 - margin.top - margin.bottom;

  var svg = d3.select("#chart")
              .append("svg")
                .attr("width", w + margin.left + margin.right)
                .attr("height", h + margin.top + margin.bottom)
              .append("g")
                .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");

var meteorsData = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FreeCodeCamp/ProjectReferenceData/master/meteorite-strike-data.json";

var geoData = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johan/world.geo.json/master/countries.geo.json";

var geo = {};

var meteors = {};

d3.json(geoData, function(data){
//load world map data  

   geo = data.features;

   d3.json(meteorsData, function(data){

        meteors = data.features;

        var projection = d3.geo.mercator()
                     .scale(150)
                     .translate([w/2, h/2]);

        var path = d3.geo.path()
                     .projection(projection);

        svg.selectAll("path")
            .data(geo)
            .enter()
            .append("path")
            .attr("fill", "#95E1D3")
            .attr("stroke", "#34495e")
            .attr("stroke-width", 0.5)
            .attr("class", "countries")
            .attr("d", path);

        svg.selectAll(".circles")
           .data(meteors)
           .enter()
           .append("circle")
           .attr("cx", function(d){ return projection(d.geometry.coordinates)[0]})
           .attr("cy", function(d){ return projection(d.geometry.coordinates)[1]})
           .attr("r", 10)
           .attr("fill", "ccc");

            })

})

Someone can help me? Thanks


Solution

  • So in the data you were using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FreeCodeCamp/ProjectReferenceData/master/meteorite-strike-data.json
    there was one data point that did not have a geometry and that was causing the error

    {
        "type": "Feature",
        "geometry": null,
        "properties": {
          "mass": "2250",
          "name": "Bulls Run",
          "reclong": null,
          "geolocation_address": null,
          "geolocation_zip": null,
          "year": "1964-01-01T00:00:00.000",
          "geolocation_state": null,
          "fall": "Fell",
          "id": "5163",
          "recclass": "Iron?",
          "reclat": null,
          "geolocation_city": null,
          "nametype": "Valid"
        }
    },  
    

    so if you put in a check in your cx and cy functions that should solve the issue:

    .attr("cx", function(d){ 
        if (d.geometry){
            return projection(d.geometry.coordinates)[0];
        }
    })
    .attr("cy", function(d){ 
        if (d.geometry) { 
            return projection(d.geometry.coordinates)[1];
        }
    })  
    

    Working codepen here http://codepen.io/anon/pen/xgjrmR