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Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Transit Map Quiz


Can you lot recognize a metropolis purely from its transit network? Well you lot tin ship away forthwith discovery out if you lot tin ship away on this fun Google Maps based quiz, Guess the City past times Transit Stops.

The game is really simple. You are shown a serial of maps which solely comprise a city's transit stops. You are therefore given a selection of 4 cities to pick from. Guess the right metropolis together with you lot larn a point. There are v cities inward each score together with 4 levels inward all. However hold upwardly warned the quiz gets to a greater extent than hard amongst each level.


I'm non that familiar amongst America's transit systems therefore I got a petty frustrated amongst the quiz. I idea that I powerfulness practise improve recognizing the transit systems of around of the world's major cities. So I decided to practise my ain transit organisation game.

I used the Google Maps Styled Maps Wizard to practise a blank Google Map. I therefore only turned on the transit layer. This results inward a Google Map which precisely shows a city's transit system. I didn't accept plenty to fourth dimension to genuinely practise the game but I mean value it's sort of fun exploring cities on Transit Lines.


If you lot also discovery Guess the City past times Transit Stops a petty besides hard therefore you lot powerfulness prefer the Washington Post's Street Map Quiz.

The Washington Post has created a release of maps showing solely metropolis streets together with no other features. Your business inward this quiz is to endeavor together with advert each metropolis map from solely the designing of its roads. Some of the metropolis maps are easier than others. However, fifty-fifty if you lot don't recognize a map, you lot nonetheless accept a peril of picking the right metropolis from the selection of 4 answers.