"United States of America" has been deleted.
By Daft Logic on 12th February 2020

Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I got this: "Your Score = 134 : Q135) Tap where you think United States of America is."
By mj on 12th February 2020

Thanks mj, the extra DRC's have been removed.
By Daft Logic on 11th February 2020

OK, . I can see the XML file is a lot cleaner, and all of the bodies of water are gone now, but the DRC came up twice, and the other Congo is called Congo - Brazaville. I clicked directly on Brazza, but it didn't count. I know the area pretty well, because we have an office there.

Anyhow, from here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_world, it looks like there's something a little screwy about the way Openstreetmap provides country data in the addresses, vs. what is in the official addresses that come up when clicking.
By mj on 11th February 2020

This time it was: "Your Score = 132 : Q133) Tap where you think Territorial waters of Greece - Strofades is."
By mj on 10th February 2020

San Jorge Gulf has been removed. It won't appear again.
By Daft Logic on 10th February 2020

This is weird, the game asked me to identify a body of water: San Jorge Gulf, which AFAIK is part of Argentina... it seems like the other time I made it to 132 it was something else that I missed.
By mj on 10th February 2020

I messed up South Sudan which would be really embarrassing if people from work knew..
By mj on 5th February 2020

Wait ! I take it back. If you click on Tarawa it works !
By mj on 5th February 2020

It looks like OpenStreetMap doesn't have any data on Kiribati, or any of the Line Islands for that matter.
By mj on 5th February 2020

Thank you!
By mj on 4th February 2020

mj, Isle of Man has been removed to avoid this issue.
By Daft Logic on 3rd February 2020

Indeed, I tried clicking the Isle of Man for the second question (UK) and it counted as correct.
By mj on 3rd February 2020

This run was great because I got to solidify my understanding of the balkans, and also the baltic countries. I always knew that Latvia was north of Lithuania, but now I have a geographical tool to get it exactly right. Similarly Lake Skada for locating Montenegro, and Lake Victoria, and the two long lakes for Kenya Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.

But then I hit another bug: The Isle of Man. Maybe the scoring algorithm thinks it's part of the UK (I think it's a crown dependency).
By mj on 3rd February 2020

Thanks for the feedback mj . Your scores suggest you are in a different 'league' from most!, but this also has helped us identify bugs and fix issues as you have found them for the first time.
By Daft Logic on 3rd February 2020

Cool. Thank you!

I'm really enjoying how this game is helping me learn the real geographical features which can be used to find a given country. Islands are easy of course, but I never really understood before how close Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest are, for instance.
By mj on 3rd February 2020

Thanks MJ. You are correct. A mix of between DR Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Both the question and clicked location are now set to Democratic Republic of the Congo, so it should allow you to move on to ....Cape Verde!
By Daft Logic on 31st January 2020

I think DR Congo has a similar problem to the one that Jamaica had. I clicked a couple of hundred km west of the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika, and it was considered wrong.
By mj on 31st January 2020

it has lots of trouble approving Australia, it's the whole continent guys
On 29th January 2020

Hi mj, yes I see what you mean. I will put on an update for Jamaika!
By Daft Logic on 27th January 2020

I think I figured it out. The address data spells Jamaica with a k, like: Jamaika. I think that might be a German locale.

address: {neighbourhood: "Jacisera Park", suburb: "Half Way Tree", county: "Saint Andrew",%u2026}
neighbourhood: "Jacisera Park"
suburb: "Half Way Tree"
county: "Saint Andrew"
state_district: "Surrey County"
postcode: "KINGSTON 10"
country: "Jamaika"
country_code: "jm"
By mj on 27th January 2020

For Jamaica I clicked right on Kingston, but it came up as wrong.
By mj on 27th January 2020

Hi Mark .... good idea... to help with learning for the next time. We will look in to this.
By Daft Logic on 27th January 2020

It would be cool if when we miss one an outline map could appear.
By Mark on 26th January 2020

1) it should randomize the countries. I keep failing at greece despite the fact I know exactly where it is, and then it makes me go trough the same 20 countries again. 2) it should also include borders of countries cause one time I missed egypt by that much. there's also no point in having usa and canada there cause everyone can point those two out. point is to know to find a country on a map, not to have crazy sense of where it's borders are. 3) countries like usa, canada and mexico should not be appearing one after another, and neither should chile and argentina. it would be fine if it was random and it just happened, but since it's not random, you should add them in different order.
On 19th January 2020

I tapped Japan right in the middle of the main island, north west of Osaka and south west of Tokyo and it says I%u2019m wrong. There%u2019s literally no way I%u2019m wrong.
By Anna on 11th January 2020

Where ever you have Japan you are wrong. I triple checked the map and you keep saying I am wrong even though there is zero % chance I am.
By Steve on 3rd January 2020

Thanks for the feedback. USA has been un-bugged.
By Daft Logic on 7th December 2019

USA is bugged
On 7th December 2019

Thanks. Spelling mistake corrected.
By Daft Logic on 26th November 2019

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