Maps Mania: Tripgeo Cities


map of San Francisco with 20 markers highlighting some landmarks in the city

Just a few months in the past Map Channels kindly provided to create a json feed for my Guess This Metropolis sport. I had been complaining about having so as to add a brand new metropolis to the sport daily. Map Channels then volunteered to create a feed for the sport which supplies the title, coordinates, inhabitants and an outline of a distinct metropolis each day. The result’s that Guess This Metropolis now updates day by day with no need any enter from me.

Map Channels created the json feed by constructing a big database of main international cities. This database was created utilizing a mixture of GeoNames, Open AI / ChatGPT and Wikipedia. This cities database contains a number of info which really is not wanted or included within the day by day Guess This Metropolis feed. A few of this extra info is nonetheless now utilized by the Tripgeo Trivia sport.

TripGeo Trivia is a day by day geography quiz which requires you to determine ten cities based mostly on quite a few clues. Every single day ten new random cities from all over the world must be recognized. That will help you on this activity you possibly can view three clues as to the identification of every metropolis. The info behind the sport all comes from the identical Map Channels metropolis database which powers Guess This Metropolis.

animated GIF rotating through a number of Street View images of famous New York landmarks

The Map Channels metropolis database is now additionally utilized by Tripgeo Cities. Tripgeo Cities is a brand new interactive map containing details about 10,000 cities and cities all over the world. Click on on any of those cities on the map and 20 markers are added to the map to focus on among the most vital landmarks within the chosen metropolis. A big description of town can be supplied beneath the map, alongside info on every of the mapped landmarks.

A number of the details about every metropolis is generated by AI. Which means the data will not be 100% correct and the venture is certainly a piece in progress. Nevertheless generally the information is fairly good and, with additional growth, will enhance over time. Tripgeo goals to develop and enhance the TripGeo Cities useful resource sooner or later and to include the information into extra mapping initiatives. 

For now Tripgeo Cities is an effective way to find among the most important locations to go to in cities all over the world. It’s also a unbelievable device for a little bit digital tourism. For instance, in case you use the attention and arrow buttons underneath every metropolis map you possibly can take an enchanting digital tour across the chosen metropolis’s most fascinating and vital landmarks on Google Maps Avenue View.



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