Converting from shp to geojson fails

Question

I'm following Mike Bostock's tutorial, let's make a map, but for a map of Mexico. I want to display state boundaries.

I was able to get the map of Mexico from Natural Earth Data's world maps. My source for the state boundaries is here:

http://duopixel.com/LIMITE_ESTATAL.shp

NOTE: this should be the same file as here, but INEGI's server seems to be down for days. I was able to convert it from ogr2ogr into geojson. When you convert from geojson into topojson, this notice comes up:

duopixel$ topojson -s 5 -o estados_simp.json -- estados.json
quantization: maximum error 78.607km (0.707°)
simplification: retained 1130 / 454450 points (0%)

It still seems to generate the file and it looks like it's correct. This is the file it generates. This is my javascript code:

d3.json("estados.json", function(error, mex) {

  var estados = mex.objects.estados.geometries

  svg.selectAll(".estado")
    .data(estados)
    .enter().append("path")
    .attr("class", "estado")
    .attr("d", path)
});

However, I get an error when running this code...

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined 

Now, since I'm not even sure what I'm doing, I have no idea where the failure point is. I'm stuck at this point and any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

It was a mistake on my javascript code, I wasn't unpacking the data with the clientside topojson...

d3.json("estados.json", function(error, mex) {
  var estados = topojson.object(mex, mex.objects.estados);

  svg.selectAll(".estado")
    .data(estados.geometries)
    .enter().append("path")
    .attr("class", "estado")
    .attr("d", path);
})