"Fool's World Map" project

Sasanishiki · April 30, 2005

I just did Europe and got 40/44, with an av. error of 22 miles. It took me 352 seconds but I was trying to be perfect with matching the borders (Shaking head...)

I too tried to put Moldova on the coast but was only a little bit off. I put Malta a fraction to the west but it was hard to see where it should go. Still happy with that. I got Slovenia too far to the south and Serbia a little bit out of place too. Apologies to the countries concerned from an Antipodean :-S

Off to try Africa, which won't be as good.

Sasanishiki · April 30, 2005

I surpised myself a little with Africa, getting 42/53. A few of these were due to the pieces of the jigsaw fitting rather than good judgement (Shaking head...) :-S

I got the early incorrect ones by trying to put everything on a coast. Mali and Niger being prime examples. I knew where Ethipia was roughly as well but tried to fit it to a coast as well. I also got Leostho and Swaziland incorrect because I didn't know exactly where they were in relation to South Africa. That is, I had to do them before slotting in Sth Africa (I still claim that I got them correct-ish).

502 secs

av. error 159 miles

79% accuracy

Sasanishiki · April 30, 2005

47/47 for this Asian game. The only problem being it does each region separately rather than having to look at the whole region (Shaking head...)

Check it out here

Elenrian · April 30, 2005

I got 44/47 for Asia, because I don't know where exactly Bahrein (and the former urss states) is... For Africa, 50/53... About 250 seconds each.

Asashosakari · April 30, 2005

47/47 for this Asian game. The only problem being it does each region separately rather than having to look at the whole region (Shaking head...)
Check it out here

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Well, you picked the wrong difficulty level. Change G1 to G2 in the URL for the game that's equivalent to the Europe and Africa ones that were linked before.

Jejima · April 30, 2005

Wow the Einstein level (level 7) is a killer! I just got 13 out of 24 for South and Central America (score 446) - and most of those were only because it became jigsaw puzzle time towards the end.

:)

Zuikakuyama · April 30, 2005

Got Europe 38/44, off by 61 miles.

Asia 45/47, off by 16 miles.

Edit: Just did Africa, 46/53, off by 79 miles.

Not surprisingly, being from Asia, I did better there.

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aderechelsea · April 30, 2005

Africa : 52/53

average error: 7 miles

aderechelsea · April 30, 2005

these great games helped me learn my USA geography very easy.

Africa was always my favourite but i am completely ignorant on Pacific Ocean islands.I don't know the capitals of those countries and cannot even name them when seing a map.I just know a lot of their names ...

Sasanishiki · April 30, 2005

I was looking on their website and found one where you have to actually not only place but also rotate the country to the correct position. Very difficult for some. I might go to try now...

Manekineko · May 2, 2005

Asia: 39/47, average miss 133 miles (Kazakhstan, Brunei, Singapore account for most of that - Kazakhstan only because it came very early).

Funny thing, I had the most problems with Arabian countries - those were the ones I had no idea where to put, since I didn't even know they were Arabian. :-) All the rest, even if I missed the exact location, at least I got the right part of continent.

I thought Iraq was further east than that... And that Syria was smaller than that... :-)

Now for the major embarrasment: Africa, 35/53, average miss 524 miles. Except the Med, Ethiopia & co and South Africa & co, I was shooting wildly. After first few misses, I just kept droping the completely mysterious countries into dead center to minimise damage. :-/ I managed to put Seychells in the wrong ocean! :'-( Thankfully, there was Madagascar to improve my score. (Shaking head...)

Kaikitsune Makoto · May 2, 2005

Deep bow in reverence to people who are not professional geography teachers or geography super nerds and who can yet score almost full points in Africa even. How can people know so well the exact location of Togo, Gambia et co unless there is some massive interest in these particular countries? Very impressive and remarkably good memory of shapes and relations of shapes and distances. Eggsallad!

When I was young and innocent, New Zealand to me was the most isolated major country in the world. Now it feels that again since it is so far from Australia after all. Also thought it was much closer. I remember in elementary school there was once a geography exam question "How is the climate in New Zealand?". In the future New Zealand will definitely get its own thread in off-topic!

Jakusotsu · May 3, 2005

When I was young and innocent, New Zealand to me was the most isolated major country in the world.
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...which reminds me of the fairly on-topic question:

Which island is the most isolated?

(Gernobono may not answer because we discussed this recently)

Randomitsuki · May 3, 2005

When I was young and innocent, New Zealand to me was the most isolated major country in the world.
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...which reminds me of the fairly on-topic question:
Which island is the most isolated?

(Gernobono may not answer because we discussed this recently)

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Out of the top of my mental map:

How about Pitcairn (AFAIK the island where the Bounty mutineers stranded)?

Or wasn't there a small island in the middle of the Atlantic nowhere called Tristan de Cunha?

Asashosakari · May 3, 2005

Which island is the most isolated?

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Google seems somewhat inconclusive...contenders for most isolated inhabited settlement are:

Tristan

Easter Island

Hawaii ? (I suppose the author is taking Hawaii as one large settlement, rather than many small ones that are in close proximity to one another)

I'd have to go with Tristan, since this article says Easter Island is the most isolated at 1400 miles away from Pitcairn, but that appears to actually be less than the shortest distance from Tristan (1600 miles to St. Helena, according to the first article).

Edited May 3, 2005 by Asashosakari

Zuikakuyama · May 3, 2005

Africa : 52/53
average error: 7 miles

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Damn, you are ungodly. This is most impressive.

aderechelsea · May 3, 2005

and imagine that my mistake was for equitorial guinea ..... a rather easy one.

Jakusotsu · May 3, 2005

About Tristan or Easter Island:

As I imagined, this matter seems not be settled easily. I am familiar with the urban legend about Rapa Nui (=Easter Island) being the farthest away from any other coast or shoreline. But I never heard of Tristan before, and the question is: do these articles consider geographical or social distance (i.e. inhabited settlements).

Further discussion needed. (Gernobono, You're in again!)

Asashosakari · May 3, 2005

But I never heard of Tristan before, and the question is: do these articles consider geographical or social distance (i.e. inhabited settlements).
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The NASA article uses distance to nearest settlement.

Randomitsuki · May 3, 2005

To chuck in more salt into the debate.

On a Web page dedicated to useless information (unfortunately in German only) there were two meanings of "remote". While Tristan de Cunha seems most remote in terms of geographical distance, the island has a helicopter port, and thus can be accessed comparatively easily.

However, Pitcairn (woohoo, I mentioned it above already) can also claim for being the most remote island because it can only be reached via ship.

Jejima · May 3, 2005

and for your next (slightly easier) Geography question...

Which 3 countries are entirely surrounded by another country. (Bonus points given if you can exlpain why)

Gernobono · May 3, 2005

and for your next (slightly easier) Geography question...
Which 3 countries are entirely surrounded by another country. (Bonus points given if you can exlpain why)

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Vatican

San Marino

and one must be in south africa....but i do not know whats the name....

Azumashida · May 3, 2005

and for your next (slightly easier) Geography question...
Which 3 countries are entirely surrounded by another country.

Manekineko · May 3, 2005

and for your next (slightly easier) Geography question...
Which 3 countries are entirely surrounded by another country. (Bonus points given if you can exlpain why)

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Vatican

San Marino

and one must be in south africa....but i do not know whats the name....

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Been to one, soon will be visiting another... :-S

Why? Vatican because while Italy while uniting did absorb Papal state (however it's called in English), popes wouldn't relinquish their independency. The situation was finally settled by Lateran agreement, where Vatican was granted sovereignity (with extra "territory" around Basilica of St. John in Lateran - it's cathedral of Rome, so Rome's bishop = pope "owns" it, and some other bits and pieces elsewhere).

San Marino is a greater mystery - I don't know how or why it survived unification of Italy. Once it did, like Monaco it proved a nice "duty free" location, plus the revenue from tourism. It was founded by a stonemason from Dalmatia - a Croat, of course. :-D His name? Marin.

Jejima · May 4, 2005

and for your next (slightly easier) Geography question...
Which 3 countries are entirely surrounded by another country.

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