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Re: Show HN: I made a little tool to practice country positions on the world map

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There's something going on in the Middle East. Whenever I click on Israel, it responds Palestinian Territories. Also, might want to turn off tiny countries by default. I don't know my island nations well enough. Otherwise very cool.

I think that's correct behavior there.

Re: Show HN: I made a little tool to practice country positions on the world map

#22
I like this a lot!

Feedback: The scrolling isn't integrated well, and everything East of Puerto Rico is impossible to click correctly. I got Saint-Martin as a location and could not click it right, even when scrolling in as much as possible (due to the zoom level not changing the distance of world movement when dragging, it's the same x/y speed).

Also I have the feeling that I am in an endless loop of selecting Montenegro, Azerbaijan, Chad, Ukraine and Malaysia correctly. They appear a lot of times and are not filtered out from the list of remaining countries when being selected correctly.

Screenshots showing the hovering issues due to overlapping countries: https://imgur.com/a/8PteW27

Re: Show HN: I made a little tool to practice country positions on the world map

#24
I like it but the constant repetition is really grating. I know its probably some fancy duolingo style idea about proven science but its really grating to have to confirm that yes I know where canada is every second click - only one in maybe twenty or thirty is interesting or difficult and having to spend ages to get to that point is annoying. Especially before I saw the option to turn off tiny islands so I just pressed on greenland every time it wanted monserrat because its not worth trying with the overlapping circles in carribean.

Re: Show HN: I made a little tool to practice country positions on the world map

#26

I like this a lot! Feedback: The scrolling isn't integrated well, and everything East of Puerto Rico is impossible to click correctly. I got Saint-Martin as a location and could not click it right, even when scrolling in as much as possible (due to the zoom level not changing the distance of world movement when dragging, it's the same x/y speed). Also I have the feeling that I am in an endless loop of selecting Monte…

Thank you for the detailed feedback. I will look into this!

Re: Show HN: I made a little tool to practice country positions on the world map

#28
Overall, good on you.

Because I know very few countries in Oceania, it's very frustrating. Wake Island, eek!. If there were a 'show me' button that appears after a wrong answer, that would be a good addition. The result message (error/correct) disappears too quickly Maybe need to control it with at 'got it' button? I'd like to zoom even closer on the Balkan peninsula.

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