Test your knowledge of countries and regions using Open Street Maps.

This project has been made as part of DurHack 2024, and as such is unlikely to be maintained once the hackathon has ended.

Using Geoguessr to procrastinate on coursework

You know those web games where you get a map of the US and have to fill in the states, or a map of Europe and fill in the countries? Now you can do that with basically anything on demand (by pulling it from open-source map data).

JavaScript and a bunch of APIs.

Turns out borders can have a lot of detail in them and that makes them very big files. It also turns out that open source maps maintained by random people for fun can have some small bits of data missing (such as Cumbria).

Also, the borders between internal regions of Cyprus are really weird and bad, and some of them overlap each other completely. There is exactly one country that doesn't appear in our project.

Making it look and feel so much like a proper website when it's basically just two APIs and a framework duct taped together.

If you're trying to do a hackathon and a CTF at the same time you're probably not going to do very well at either of them (and also that thing about Cyprus).

Honestly we'll probably forget about it once we've slept but I'll send you it for open day demos if you want.