Hi, I finaly registered to hacker news only to congratulate you and ask how did you make these? I love Data and love to see new ways of displaying it, this is an awesome idea, I'd like to try and make things like these for a hobbie, care to show me some pointers?
I'd love to see some of the code behind these maps. Are they rendered with mapnik? How practical would it be to make some of them live and interactive? Especially now we have vector graphics in the browser.
Are these evergreen? ie, can the data-sets be updated, etc. FWIW, I think they are conceptually intersting.<p>My immediate second thought was, what more could be done? [in a good way]