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Another challenge is the fact that nation states, since they were invented long before the Internet, are represented by flags and not by icons. These flags tend to have weird aspect ratios and don't work well on a map that is essentially a square of squares. One could just crop or resize them, but in most cases, the results look surprisingly stupid.

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Luckily, OxJS solves this problem. Its Geo module comes with a set of square flag icons. They're generated (almost) automatically, by fetching SVGs from wikipedia and applying some more or less regular transformations. The French Tricolore is easy. The Union Jack is harder. And the flag of Nepal is really hard. (But the hardest part was figuring out how to render SVGs as PNGs, in python, on Mac OS X, without installing obscure libraries that have insane dependencies. It turned out to be a one-liner: os.system('qlmanage -t -s %d -o %s %s' % (size, path, svg)). Making these icons was definitely more time-consuming than making this map.

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Luckily, OxJS solves this problem. Its Geo module comes with a set of square flag icons. They're generated (almost) automatically, by fetching SVGs from wikipedia and applying some more or less regular transformations. The French Tricolore is easy. The Union Jack is harder. And the flag of Nepal is really hard. (But the hardest part was figuring out how to render SVGs as PNGs, in python, on Mac OS X, without installing obscure libraries that have insane dependencies. It turned out to be a one-liner: os.system('qlmanage -t -s %d -o %s %s' % (size, path, svg)). Making these icons was definitely more time-consuming than making this map.

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Generating the images took 200 lines of Python. The map client is 1,000 lines of JavaScript. And the server backend is 5 lines of PHP. If you find bugs, or spot anything that should be done more elegantly, your feedback is appreciated.

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Generating the images took 200 lines of Python. The map client is 1,000 lines of JavaScript. And the server backend is 5 lines of PHP. If you find bugs, or spot anything that should be done more elegantly, your feedback is appreciated.

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