This morning I found that my geographical data of america is ten occasions worse than I beforehand thought. Judging by my makes an attempt to attract the outlines of all 50 states onto a clean map of the U.S. my software to the American Geographical Society might be going to be summarily rejected.
Common readers of Maps Mania (sure each of you) could keep in mind that in March I posted a hyperlink to Big Quiz’s Europe Nation Drawing Problem. On this recreation gamers are challenged to attract the borders of European nations on prime of a satellite tv for pc map of Europe. For every nation drawn factors are awarded primarily based on how a lot of the drawn space accommodates the precise named nation and the way a lot of the particular nation is contained within the drawn space.
In March I found that I’ve a really unhealthy data of fundamental European geography. At present I realized that my data of American geography is even worse. To this point I’ve tried to attract ten states within the U.S. State Drawing Problem. I managed to attain 0 factors for Maine, Nevada, Montana, and Nebraska. The one two states I’ve managed to attract with any cheap accuracy thus far are California and Washington.
Because of the prices of utilizing the Google Maps API Big Quiz periodically restricts entry to its video games to premium members. This week the Europe Nation Drawing Problem is restricted. Nonetheless (on the time of writing) the U.S. State Drawing Problem is out there to anybody.
