Works great with d3.js too. Couldn't've made this map of the early days of the Ukraine crisis[0] without Natural Earth. Also helpful to that end: the Global Ad

Works great with d3.js too. Couldn't've made this map of the early days of the Ukraine crisis[0] without Natural Earth. Also helpful to that end: the Global Administrative Areas[1] database. Finally, it would've been impossible to even start getting my head around how to go about these things if it wasn't for this amazing tutorial by Mike Bostock[2]. [0] http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/03/03/the-noose-tightens/ http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/03/03/the-noo... [1] http://www.gadm.org http://www.gadm.org [2] http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/ http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/