That's definitely the map's weakness. We are using a force-based model which is nice in that it is dynamic (if lazy), but does not have the same consistency as

That's definitely the map's weakness. We are using a force-based model which is nice in that it is dynamic (if lazy), but does not have the same consistency as the NYTimes example. For the NYTimes I understand they baked and tweaked the layouts in advance in order to play it as an animation as well as keep the layouts in the same position, which we should probably do on future vaguely geographic explorations like this :)