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Sunday, January 28, 2018

Mega Monday Map Quiz


Can you lot cite these iii European cities?

The maps inwards a higher house demonstrate iii dissimilar cities. To brand the inquiry harder each map exclusively shows edifice footprints. All other features, such every bit roads, rivers too parks bring been removed from the maps.

It isn't slow is it? 

How nearly if I told you lot the get-go urban total is inwards Switzerland, the instant map shows a minor department of a urban total inwards Germany, too the concluding map shows a department of a urban total inwards England.

Still stuck?

What if I say you lot that 1 map is from Berlin, 1 is from London too the other Basel?

OK, too then that isn't just a 'mega' map quiz. That's because each of those iii circular maps comes from a dissimilar quiz. The get-go map comes from Tages Anzeiger's London Squares, Markets & Circuses.

The get-go quiz, from the Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger, includes 12 maps of dissimilar cities inwards Switzerland. The instant quiz, from the Berliner Morgenpost, includes 12 maps of dissimilar areas of Berlin. My quiz includes 6 maps of dissimilar areas of London. Now that's a chip to a greater extent than mega

All of these iii quizzes were made alongside Hans Hack's Figuregrounder. Figuregrounder is a really slow to purpose tool which allows you lot to brand map posters for whatsoever place inwards the Blue Planet using OSM data. The posters are uncomplicated circular edifice footprint maps. So if you lot desire to exercise your ain map quiz you lot tin merely purpose Figuregrounder to brand maps of dissimilar cities, towns or neighborhoods.


Alternatively you lot could purpose the Street Patterns tool for making map posters from urban total street patterns. Street Patterns is a really like tool to Figuregrounder, except it uses information from OpenStreetMap to exercise maps from merely streets too roads (instead of edifice footprints).

The icon inwards a higher house shows street patterns works life inwards Paris, London & New York. Can you lot gauge which is which? The respond tin endure works life here.