Draw the World Map

If you used just the stroke of the paths to make the tracings, you could try a command like this: .svg-holder .svg-incorrect { stroke: #FF6666 !important; }

Theoretically, it should convert the strokes to red when incorrect. If it involves fill though or some other property, this probably won't work.

Maracaibo was sneaky, but I found it ;).

Just one thing. USA-Pacific and UK-Atlantic appear darker and/or thicker than the other lines.

should there be Norway-Atlantic Ocean for Bouvet Island?

also I wonder if type-ins can be added to make life easier. Eg typing the first 3 letters of countries to get the borders done? eg ITAFRA would get Italy-France. Or something like URUGUAY-ALL-ARGENTINA-BRAZIL so that if you know all borders of a country in alphabetical order you can get them all with a single long string?

As you say implementation for the 'mega type-in' wouldn't be easy, also depends how much time you would want to spend in creating the type-in string - fastest way is probably to allow just for exact typing of JetPunk names (as in the answer to the countries of the world quiz) in alphabetical order.

There are quite a few errors and mistakes btw, which I would point out below just to let you know

2. The Kaliningrad coast only appears when I type Russia-Finland, and when I do type that, it shows that I’ve typed 2 answers.

3. Only “Tonki” is accepted, not Tonkin. (Problem only shows up when Tonkin is the first word in an answer pair)

4. Davis Strait, not “Striat”

5. NZ-Cook Strait, not Inlet

6. When I type Amundsen-Canada, Ungava Bay in Northern Quebec also lights up

7. When I type Indonesia-Tomini, extra places light up like northeastern Flores, the north coasts of the Alor Islands just to its east, and the western coasts of the Aru Islands below New Guinea’s Bird’s Head peninsula.

8. Either “Kolyuchin, Chaun” or “Kolyuchinskaya, Chaunskaya” , not “Kolyuchinskya, Chaunskya”

A few things:

1 if you have Bahrain-Saudi Arabia border which is a bridge why don't you have Singapore-Malaysia? Although I suppose there is a shared artificial island in the first one

2 Titicaca lake please :)

3 This may be somewhat complicated but it would be nice to see if you are missing a land border or a water one, maybe by shading the cells with different colours?

Here is the IHO source document: https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/76595.pdf

Hope this is a concrete enough persuasion…:)

1. When I type Australia-St Vincent gulf, the west coast of Tasmania appears (it’s shaded one more time when I type Aus-Bight, causing the western Tasmanian coast to be thicker)

2. When I type Uk-Caribbean, the north coast of St Martin on the French side appears.

3. When I type France-Caribbean, the France-Netherlands border on St Martin appears (this border is shaded one more time when I type Fr-Ne, and makes the border thicker than usual)

Anyway, if you're looking for a 750th answer, I guess you forgot the chinese side of the Taiwan strait, didn't you?

I also wonder if some other african lakes on borders should be added or not. I mean, if there are the Dead Sea and the Lake of the Woods, why not Lake Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert? They are not even lesser-known than Lake Turkana, I think. But then you'd have to consider Lake Mweru and Lake Kariba as well... I don't know ^^. And finally, I realize that Lake Chad is ALSO on borders, and it's quite well-known, but it's a complicated case since it has shrunk badly these last decades.

Was it intended to remove the blue color for water borders? It was cool.

I see you've added Taiwan Strait for China, that's good. And I learned Bohai Sea today... it's getting really obscure, isn't it? ;)

Maybe for next time consider my above suggestions about African lakes? (if you could give me a reply about that, that would be nice, even if you're not about to include those)

I had anticipated way more additions to this update, but after seeing one of your previous replies, I’m thinking the wait might be worth it ;))

I think nailing Molucca’s spelling is better since such loopholes defeats the purpose of this quiz; of course coincidences like guinea-Ivory Coast or Cambodia-Thailand don’t count since requiring to type “gulf of” in such cases are too absurd even for this quiz imo.

Should be blue but not: Madagascar-Indian Ocean

Should be white but not: Eswatini-South Africa, Ethiopia-South Sudan, Indonesia-Malaysia

But 505/753 on my first try is good enough. Thank you lots for this quiz, can't even imagine how much time it took.

Some others have commented already, but there are some issues with blue/white accuracy as well as alphabetical issues (R Congo/DR Congo, Indonesia/East Timor, Macedonia/Kosovo)

As it is very detailed on the minutiae of fluidity of seas, you should probably have them set as North Macedonia and Federated States of Micronesia

Also, Malacca Strait counts for Molucca as well, but not vice versa

Just discovered Gulf of Mannar India/Sri Lanka

Halmahera Sea?

I started with Yemen-Aden, which led me to notice a bug with the dots. The dots for Yemen-Arabian and Yemen-Aden are reversed, so the positions are right, but the Yemen-Aden dot is on the Yemen-Arabian line and vice-versa.

Do you plan on ever making a version including maritime borders? That could be an interesting idea. This is really neat and detailed, thank you for making it!

You only get 4 points.

Still just 4 points.

Looks like only 100% will get you five points for this quiz. Only 100% will take you above 95% percentile.

Just need to remember RussiaKolyma for next time (without forgetting the others).

The border is a result of the settling of the Hans Island dispute, splitting Hans Island down the middle as of June 14, 2022. (Then again I wouldn’t be shocked if you already knew all this)

e.g. as HydraMite said, to draw the border between the USA and Canada, you type "USACanada".

To draw the border between the USA and Mexico, you type "USAMexico" etc.

Do that for every country in the world and you will fill in the map.

Is the Strait of Sicily too small to include?

I don't think I've got what it takes to do Africa, or even Europe, or SEA. I started in Canada and started skipping the smaller stuff by the time I got to Nicaragua.

Fun idea though. I wish I had someone to dictate to.

If I could change something, I'd have the names of bodies of water pop up on the map after you've guessed them.

I have the countries, and most major bodies of water memorized, but I am doubtful that >20% of the takers have stuff like this committed to memory:

Finland-Gulf of Bothnia

Madagascar-Mozambique Strait

Italy-Tyrrhenian Sea

Canada-Gulf of St Lawrence

United Kingdom-Celtic Sea

Tanzania-Lake Tanganyika

Denmark-Kattegat

Denmark-Skagerrak

Spain-Alboran Sea

I've got nothing against using it as a training tool, just wondering what the score would look like it the jetpunk participants did it by memory only.

Shoutout to the elusive tease, number 753, Turkmenistan Garabogazkol Basin!

My only real issue is assuming that Palestine is part of Israel...

Thank you :)