https://github.com/bramus/mercator-puzzle-redux

Dynamic take on the original Mercator Puzzle by Google
https://github.com/bramus/mercator-puzzle-redux

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Dynamic take on the original Mercator Puzzle by Google

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bramus/mercator-puzzle-redux
• Owner: bramus
• Created: 2013-02-16T11:45:08.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-05-23T08:11:25.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T23:16:08.442Z (7 months ago)
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: http://bramus.github.io/mercator-puzzle-redux/
• Size: 309 KB
• Stars: 37
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 17
• Open Issues: 9
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Mercator Puzzle Redux

Dynamic take on the original Mercator Puzzle by Google.

Built by Bramus! - [http://www.bram.us/](http://www.bram.us/)

## About

The [the orignal Mercator Puzzle by Google](http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/poly/puzzledrag.html) is a nice one, yet it's static: you always get presented the same 15 countries at the same 15 starting positions.

This is a dynamic take on that, in which you get to place 15 countries chosen from a set of 178 in total. If you don't know the anwser, just double click a country to let the computer place it. Above that you'll get to know the name of the country when it's placed.

## Acknowledgements

* Thanks to @thijsvandevelde for sparking this idea after [complaining](https://twitter.com/thijsvandevelde/status/302332324492763136) about the fact that the original version was static

* The country data is loaded from [a GeoJSON file containing all countries](https://raw.github.com/johan/world.geo.json/master/countries.geo.json). Antarctica has been omitted from the list (sorry ATA!) due to it coloring the whole world instead of the continent itself.

* The Polygons are moved using [`google.maps.Polygon.moveTo()`](https://github.com/bramus/google-maps-polygon-moveto), a Google Maps Extension which I wrote especially for this project. The source is available on GitHub