Apologies if this is a simple case of me being blind to the obvious, but I am trying to put together a page that shows a map of the world (data sourced from a TopoJSON file) in Mercator projection centered on the Pacific. I.e. Europe on the left, America on the right and Australia in the middle. A bit like this...
From this point I want to be able to zoom and pan the map to my hearts desire, but when I pan east or west, I want the map to scroll 'around' and not come to the end of the World (I hope that makes sense).
The code I am currently working on is here (or at the following Gist (https://gist.github.com/d3noob/4966228) or block (http://bl.ocks.org/d3noob/4966228));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
body {font-size:11px;}
path {
stroke: black;
stroke-width: 0.25px;
}
</style>
<body>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://d3js.org/topojson.v0.min.js"></script>
<script>
var width = 960,
velocity = .005,
then = Date.now()
height = 475;
var projection = d3.geo.mercator()
.center([0, 0 ])
.scale(1000);
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");
d3.json("world-110m.json", function(error, topology) {
g.selectAll("path")
.data(topojson.object(topology, topology.objects.countries).geometries)
.enter()
.append("path")
.attr("d", path)
.style("fill","black")
d3.timer(function() {
var angle = velocity * (Date.now() - then);
projection.rotate([angle,0,0]);
svg.selectAll("path")
.attr("d", path.projection(projection));
});
var zoom = d3.behavior.zoom()
.on("zoom",function() {
g.attr("transform","translate("+d3.event.translate.join(",")+")scale("+d3.event.scale+")")
});
svg.call(zoom)
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
The code is an amalgam of examples and as a result I can see a map that can rotate west to east automatically, and I can pan and zoom using the mouse, but when panning and zooming, from what I can tell, I am affecting the internal "g" element and not the map within the "svg" element.
There are plenty of good examples of being able to pan and zoom a map centered on the meridian. But none on the anti-meridian that I have discovered.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.