Exploronomics

Exploring Global Economics.

Exploronomics globe.

I’m making a tool, just for fun, to help get a feel of the economics of the countries of the world.

Check it out here!

Globe Model

I did initially try to create my own 3D model of the Earth using primitive shapes linking this to a downloadable JSON file of the all the borders of every country in the world like this.

However, this proved to be quite difficult and buggy and was probably going to take a very long time to get working at a minimum, let alone optimising for performance on client-side. Note that this page contains only a frontend as GitHub Pages can only serve static content, meaning no backend server can run alongside the frontend. So all the computation must be done on client-side.

I stumbled across this draggable globe in D3.js by Michael Keith which was exactly what I was looking for and so I simply linked to this in my code.