Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · Feb 27 Before running the network layout simulation on this, we marked all the outer districts as fixed. This allows the final layout to stay "in shape" of the country as a whole, which is important for readers to recognize their country. We used the TopoJSON arcs to automatically find these districts.
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Some of these fixed districts turned out to be too close to each other, so we defined a few exceptions for border districts we want to be free, and also a few custom positions that prevent the nodes to "leave" the country.