Tracking issue: Use cartograms in grapher

[danyx23]

@addu390 is working on generating cartograms for arbitrary years as part of Google Summer of Code. The end product of this project will be a tool that can generate cartogram topoJSON files (or CSV files for the grid) for arbitrary years. To use this in Grapher, we will have to create a new variant of the Choropleth map.

This issue is about tracking the necessary steps to using cartogramms in Grapher

• [ ] Create a pipeline for postprocessing maps and bundling/fetching them. Currently our map topoJson is hardcoded in MapTopology.ts - this will also help with #1233
• [ ] Experiment with the temporal resolution for cartograms that we think would be useful. Should we match our entire population dataset? (probably too much). Should we use fixed 10 year jumps?
• [ ] Decide if topojsons should be loaded on demand or bundled with the grapher component like the current choropleth map
• [ ] Decide if we want to go with fixed population or fluid population mode
• [ ] Decide if we always need an explanatory text for cartograms to help users understand what they are seeing
• [ ] Decide if we always want to be able to toggle between maps and cartograms or if it should be an entirely different chart type (or something in between?)

[danyx23]

Might be a good issue to pick up in the Christmas break

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