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Re: Neighborle: List Neighboring Countries

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Post by ano-ther » Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 4:18 PM UTC

neovialogistics wrote: post #9

Cute, but what about maritime EEZ borders? Example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/North_se...

Good point. Am curious: what’s the thick black line over land that goes all the way down to Switzerland? Does it affect the sea zones?

Re: Neighborle: List Neighboring Countries

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Post by vbren12 » Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 4:22 PM UTC

ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote: post #2

Might want to make it extra clear that you’re looking strictly for land borders? Today’s country, Denmark, has a bridge that connects it to its neighbor, Sweden. But Sweden was not what Neighborle was looking for as a valid answer.

It does mention in the how to play (under the question mark) that it only looks at land borders.

Re: Neighborle: List Neighboring Countries

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Post by vbren12 » Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 4:23 PM UTC

ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote: post #3

ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote: post #2

Might want to make it extra clear that you’re looking strictly for land borders? Today’s country, Denmark, has a bridge that connects it to its neighbor, Sweden. But Sweden was not what Neighborle was looking for as a valid answer.

Oh, and technically Denmark also has a land border with Canada (if you’re not excluding Greenland): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island

It seems like Greenland is treated as a separate territory, that's why it's not red and can be selected in the dropdown. Not sure if it knows about Canada - Greenland border though... I guess we'll find out when it shows up

Re: Neighborle: List Neighboring Countries

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Post by adolph » Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 4:38 PM UTC

bcatanzaro wrote: post #5

ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote: post #2

Might want to make it extra clear that you’re looking strictly for land borders? Today’s country, Denmark, has a bridge that connects it to its neighbor, Sweden. But Sweden was not what Neighborle was looking for as a valid answer.

Yeah. Bad day for this website to show up on HN if it’s built this shoddily.

Pedantry-proof is a bit higher bar than non-shoddy

Re: Neighborle: List Neighboring Countries

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Post by neovialogistics » Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 8:18 PM UTC

ano-ther wrote: post #11

neovialogistics wrote: post #9

Cute, but what about maritime EEZ borders? Example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/North_se...

Good point. Am curious: what’s the thick black line over land that goes all the way down to Switzerland? Does it affect the sea zones?

The drainage boundaries AFAICT. On one side of the line any rainfall flows downhill to joins a river that ends up in the North Sea, on the other side of the line it goes downhill to any other body of water.