Can you find Missouri on a map? How about on a map without any state boundaries? Try the USA Trivia Map game above. It gives you 15 seconds to find each state by placing a pin on a satellite map of the U.S.A. If that is too easy, then try the CrunchFood map game below, which requires you to correctly identify eating spots in Palo Alto, CA near TechCrunch headquarters. Or you can try to Pin The VC, by locating venture capital offices on Sand Hill Road (I have trouble telling them apart even when I am driving around).
All of these map games were made on UMapper with its new GeoDart game creator. GeoDart lets you pick a map (choose from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, CloudMade and OpenStreetMap), add locations, and give it a title, description, and rules. Then you can publish it and share it.
The games typically require players to find locations on the map, and then it tells gives out points based on how close they get. Here is a video describing how to make a map game with GeoDart:
Pretty cool!
The Microsoft game asks where “Philadelphia” is (which was odd in a list of states), and when I dropped my pin pretty near where it is, showed me New Jersey…
Since when did Philadelphia become a State?
Phily is a state of mind…
But what does this have to do with Twitter?
Good catch! New Jersey has been added.
The USA trivia map has a bug in it…it lists the geo polygon of New Jersey as ‘Philadelphia’
http://tr.im/l9SB
@deerkoski, we just fixed that one, please refresh.
I got 309,644 on the game at the top of the page.
Not bad, right?
Someone should tell the REAL Adam Jackson that someone is trying to make him look stupid by putting his name up with a poor score.
The thing didn’t work for me. It recorded false clicks. I’m from Missouri. It’s rather easy to find on a map. Just look for the Mississippi River running down the middle of the country. Then find where the Missouri and Illinois rivers come into the Mississippi. The land of Mark Twain is to the left of that point. The online game wouldn’t let me click on it for some reason.
407755pts
81.6%
Hey this is cool!
436,740 points – is that good? Can we compare scores?
418,272 – could have been higher if I’d had it in a bigger window.
That was pretty cool!
I found the fullscreen button
It’s in the top-right corner. Also it is a lot easier when you zoom in with the mouse wheel…
@J – you will be able to save scores in the next version; should be within the next few weeks.
I had “only” 242,838p but then I’m from Sweden so I think it was ok