⌬ learn the world map

• A geography game where you learn where every country in the world is.

• ~ to really learn something like "what's what in Subsahara Africa", you have to do all of those countries, in a row

• ⊛ infer interestingness of countries for map game by reddit search hits

• to understand the world map you also need to be able to name countries based on shape and position

• ⧖ how to memorize countries on the world map﹖

History and Plan

• GeoJSON search

• I've built:

  1. geography
  2. map-practice
     • https://github.com/koljapluemer/map-practice, with this failed earlier attempt
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     • Play online
     • Repository
     • Reddit thread
     • HN discussion
     • https://twitter.com/koljapluemer/status/1690348888836669440
  3. that old country database that's now deleted
  4. ...now learn-worldmap (https://github.com/koljapluemer/learn-worldmap)
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• ...and I rarely think of them in context, or even as related

• I want to build:

  1. River Spaced Repetition Game
  2. flag memorization game idea

• would be cool to have

  • "name 10 biggest countries in Africa"
  • "name EU countries alphabetically"
  • can provide visual help (highlight the country) in the 1st runs
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