Really interesting quiz, but there's a typo with British Columbia (should be a 'u' rather than an 'o'). Also needs a little more consistency (accepts "Yukon" for the border between Alaska and Yukon, but requires you to type "Territory" too for the other borders). I think it would be more fun if there was a bit more leniency in how you type it. I don't think it would hurt the quiz at all to allow you to leave out "Lake" or "Territory" for all of them, and maybe even to allow postal abbreviations. Especially if you keep the requirement to type everything out, it needs more time. Typing as fast as I could go (and knowing almost all of the borders), 20 minutes wasn't enough time to get them all in.
Thanks, I meant to make most of the Lakes and Territories optional. I've gone back through and polished them up, please let me know if I missed something.
Great quiz. Could you possibly allow at least the abbreviation BC for British Columbia and maybe even the abbreviations for the directional US states (North Dakota, South Carolina, West Virginia, etc.)?
I like that kind of quiz and it's nicely crafted, but you really should have chosen something else than the Mercator projection. Canada (and Alaska) are simply too big... apart from hurting the eye, the 48 states appear really small and are hard to see.
You could also give a hint for the "four corners" spots, I like the idea but touching only by a point is arguably not really a "border".
Yeah, I'm working on another version that includes the states of Mexico, but the SVG is currently too large to upload to JetPunk. However, I don't think there's any way you can argue that the four corners spots don't border each other.
Well, yes, a version with the mexican states would be nice, though I would bomb it at first ;).
But I was mostly complaining about the size of the picture. It doesn't even take all the width of the answer columns... the 48 states look really tiny. The quiz is still pleasurable thanks to the zoom, but it could be better. Is it because of the size of the file? If it is possible to zoom, I don't see why the scale of the picture couldn't be chosen to better fill the space (sorry, it's hard for me to explain this in English, and I'm not a specialist of IT at all either).
As for the projection, I just regret the choice of Mercator, though another one would not solve the width problem. This is in absolute terms, of course, I don't ask you to redo all the work for that.
Four corners: Well, for me, a border is a line, not just a dot. I would say Utah and New Mexico touch, but don't border. I accept your choice though, just asking for a clarification in the header, that's all.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. The version that I'm working on including Mexico uses a better projection. This one was actually a mashup of 2 maps--Canada and USA--that was fudged together. As to the size of this image relations to the answer bar, I hadn't even noticed, I'll see if I can tweak it.
I’d argue that the Northwest Passage and Hudson Bay should be included with the Arctic Ocean, however personal opinion aside, Nunavut and Newfoundland and Labrador share a border.
You could also argue that the Gulf of Mexico is part of the Atlantic Ocean, but I'm still going to count it as a separate body of water on this quiz. Thanks for the note about Newfoundland and Nunavut, though, I had no idea about Killiniq Island.
I've actually been kicking around a version of the world map that would show all borders except where rivers and lakes are, and you have to name the waters that fill the map in the rest of the way. So basically a watered down (oh gosh, that pun actually wasn't intended) version of Draw the World Map where all you need is to name the bodies of water. Could do a similar thing here.
Certainly, no one says "Northwest". Typically it's spoken "Northwest Territories" and written "NWT", because it's too much work to write the whole name.
Too far away, too far away, I dated a girl from there and would rather not think about them, their national team beat the DR in 1994 and I still hate it, and too far away.
I really think this needs more time. You must allow for finger-stretching breaks and frequent typos that are bound to occur with this much typing involved!
You could also give a hint for the "four corners" spots, I like the idea but touching only by a point is arguably not really a "border".
But I was mostly complaining about the size of the picture. It doesn't even take all the width of the answer columns... the 48 states look really tiny. The quiz is still pleasurable thanks to the zoom, but it could be better. Is it because of the size of the file? If it is possible to zoom, I don't see why the scale of the picture couldn't be chosen to better fill the space (sorry, it's hard for me to explain this in English, and I'm not a specialist of IT at all either).
As for the projection, I just regret the choice of Mercator, though another one would not solve the width problem. This is in absolute terms, of course, I don't ask you to redo all the work for that.
Four corners: Well, for me, a border is a line, not just a dot. I would say Utah and New Mexico touch, but don't border. I accept your choice though, just asking for a clarification in the header, that's all.
not sure how it could be done. maybe for example you type columbia-washington-oregon and a blue border appears?
Also, could you add Hans Island (Nunavut & Greenland) and the territories?