Hacker News Reader

I was actually most impressed by the interactive maps. I'm assuming there are some readily available tools for making those, but it's outside my normal experience so seems more impressive. I totally wanted to do geo-data stuff when I was a kid, but the data and tools just didn't exist at the time.

View on HN

They seem to be made with Highcharts [1] a good tool for this kind of thing with a very shallow and short learning curve. Not particularly flexible though by comparison to what D3 has to offer [2]

[1] http://www.highcharts.com/maps/demo

[2] http://d3js.org/

The toolchain isn't the point. That's the difference between someone with business judgment and a plain ol' geek.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com