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37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

161 points • by nicocarsui • today at 8:35 AM • 32 comments • view on HN

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minervawes • today at 11:51 AM

Can this be divided per drawer's country? I'd love to see how Americans draw the world map, versus, say, British or German.

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nicocarsui • today at 8:35 AM

Hi all,

I created "Borderline", a border drawing game a few weeks ago.

Since then, thousands of people have played it and I have accumulated over 37,000 drawings, which are now all stacked on a blank canvas.

This allows you to see the world as people remember it.

You can also check similar maps for the US, France, the UK, Germany, Australia, and Switzerland.

Alternatively, you can also draw a few borders yourself (free, no signin required)

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baalimago • today at 12:44 PM

We Swedes also try to ignore the Danes as much as possible

jeremyscanvic • today at 12:56 PM

Neat! I wonder how they deal with people using possibly different map projections?

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muslimrooftoppa • today at 4:43 PM

Also including Portland'n'Seattle?

pluc • today at 10:49 AM

Unrelated: what is "habibi"? To me (and I know nothing), it always sounded like a pejorative term for franco-arabs but I never bothered to validate

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psychoslave • today at 1:54 PM

Very few countries without lines within the actual boundaries. China and Brazil almost have some internal clean core. Russia also, but with considerably reduced core, somehow like Spain, and maybe France.

For some "narrow stripped" lands, that’s not that surprising, that lines also overlap so much in the middle, but for some countries with very distant straight lined boundaries, it’s far more astonishing. Some really looks like "drow some random strokes" was the sole instruction.

diego_moita • today at 1:20 PM

LOL: nobody pays attention to South America and South Sahara.

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lastscattering • today at 8:03 PM

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