Show HN: I made a little tool to practice country positions on the world map (learn-worldmap.netlify.app)

The UI could use some work, it's functional, but some polish would improve the overall appearance and user experience. It's a nice game, not to take anything away from that, but looks like it was made in the 90s/00s rather than this decade :)

Perhaps take a look at various Map websites, Google, MapQuest, Bing, OpenStreetMaps, a fullscreen interface where you can zoom and pan easily would be more user friendly

Love that it repeats questions I got wrong on randomly until I get it right.

Caribbean is too annoying. I know exactly where an island is but can't figure out which of three nearly overlapping circles is the right one.

Just when I thought Neumorphism is dead.

Nice! I enjoyed playing it. One bit of feedback – the "Include Tiny Countries" toggle seems to have the same appearance in both states, so I'm not sure which is on and which is off.

I’m having a frustrating and difficult time using this on mobile.

It looks fun, but it's unplayable on my phone screen. The CSS needs work to accommodate different screen sizes.

Very nice. But a few issues.

1. The incorrect messages disappears too quickly. And it appears slightly off the screen (I am on a MBP 15"). It should persist.

2. There is no zoom for Europe. I tried using Mediterranean. So when asked to show Estonia, I can't even get to the NW European states without scrolling. Which means that the incorrect message will never be seen.

Similarly, asked for Guernsey had to zoom in but it selected Jersey. No amount of zooming will let me select from the two. It becomes grainy.

Would love to see a mobile app for this or at least a mobile optimised web page as this looks like something I’d play when commuting. Very cool idea regardless. Cheers!

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 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

Nice dood!

I was way off on some of these xD Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. I'd say keep up polishing what you got from a desktop perspective before considering making mobile friendly.

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.

It's not great on mobile. It would be great if we could pinch and zoom.

I don't know if we are meant to have countries repeat. The Caribbean countries overlap

If this is meant for learning it would be nice to name the wrong country you clicked, e.g. Sorry that is Angola. Maybe a way to toggle that behaviour. Cool regardless.

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.

I'd like being able to toggle certain parts of the world, also the "include tiny countries" toggle is not clear if it's on or off in my opinion

And for some reason I keep getting the same 3-4 countries?

I like it a lot. How can i skip and come back to a location later?

Nice. Already learned that I kinda fail at this. But learning.

Only comment I have is it is super hard with small islands. Not exactly sure of the solution. Maybe show a red circle around the actual location if you click the wrong one? So you can learn. I'm stuck on St Martin.

Had a random bug where it kept telling me the right answer before I clicked. The countries showed up as red outlines and I just picked them off.

Otherwise, love games like this.