Where in the USA Is This?

Re:Where in the USA Is This? by Anon4Now on Monday July 03, 2023 @06:35PM (#36579702)

My problem was the state lines. My first guess was somewhere in West Virginia, which happened to be right, but being from the west coast, I had trouble eyeballing where to click for West Virginia.

The game is great, but I'm shouting to the wind about the decline in quality of online maps. For example, I can barely see roads on Google maps any more. The lines are faint and low contrast. Zooming in doesn't help because the font remains tiny. Map makers hate middle-aged people.

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Re:Where in the USA Is This? by chrisco255 on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:09PM (#36579988)

If you pinch to zoom on the map the state lines show, qnd even city names start to show. But you have to zoom more than you would think.

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Re:Where in the USA Is This? by seabass-labrax on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:24PM (#36580108)

Google Maps is also really prejudiced against railways! Maps by the Ordnance Survey (the national cartography agency of Britain) have railways indicated by a solid, thick black line - more prominent than most roads. Google Maps shows railways less visibly than a footpath!

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Re:Where in the USA Is This? by kilolima on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:08AM (#36582798)

Google maps is a crime against cartography. The two most important elements of a map are usually absent: a north arrow and a scale.

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