eduMap provides a fun way to learn the location of countries, states and capitals. Includes multiple maps, high scores and different playing modes.
Always wanted to learn the location of each African country? How about capitols of U.S. states? Maybe you never had a chance to learn all the names of all independent European nations since 1991?
The eduMap widget provides a fun way to learn the location of countries, states and capitals. Select either a full continent or a subsection of countries, then be quizzed on their locations. In the default mode, just hover over a country or state and discover its name, capital, area and population.
Different quiz modes are available to help you lean in a variety of ways. High scores are recorded on your system, based on percentage correct and completion time. 100% SVG based, so you can resize the widget to whatever size is preferred without any quality loss.
Currently Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the USA are available. More maps may be added in the future.
Now also available in Russian, with more language support to come!
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Oh, and I've received three fixed Russian translations already, no need for any more thank you!
@skulldyvan - That's a great idea and probably something I'll add in a future version (not 2.0 yet though)
@kitt - Initially I didn't add Austalia because just Australia and New Zealand didn't seem like enough countries to warrant another map to learn from. However, you'll be happy to hear that I've added an Oceania map in 2.0.
@Bloggs-Freddo - What operating system do you use and which version of Opera?
By Fyrd, # May 6, 2008 1:25:40 PM
* The Start button doesn't work
* Options doesn't work
* The magenta highlighting of countries happens out of games
* There is no information bottom left
* I can't get the covering over of text to happen again
I just tried reinstalling it, there are some changes but it still generally doesn't work.
By Bloggs-Freddo, # Apr 20, 2008 10:56:37 AM
By kitt, # Apr 19, 2008 7:57:15 PM
Show: Country \/
Answer: Capital \/
If future development is planned this would make choosing easier and more complex.
(the \/ means a "down" arrow)
By skulldyvan, # Apr 17, 2008 3:02:40 PM
- Clicking on a country only does something when you've started a game (using the "Start!" button). If you mean in-game, there does seem to be an issue with Opera where SVG widgets don't always receive clicks properly. Not sure what to do about that one.
- The pinkish hover effect you describe is for the purpose of highlighting a country to receive information on it (see box on bottom-left)
- What text exactly is covered when the map is redrawn? (and during which redraw does this occur?)
- Anything else I can clarify?
By Fyrd, # Apr 15, 2008 8:31:42 PM
By Bloggs-Freddo, # Apr 14, 2008 5:12:52 PM
- Alright, I'll see if I can fix that.
- The divisions are based on the UN subregions of Africa, which admittedly seems based on area rather than nation count. I guess it shouldn't hurt if I were to tweak that a bit.
By Fyrd, # Apr 7, 2008 5:31:11 PM
And Africa seems kinda weirdly divided:in the north and south are too few while the west east and central are too many. This makes it kinda difficult to me to learn them.
By skulldyvan, # Apr 7, 2008 4:50:47 PM
@Helmers - Thanks!
- Good idea regarding the red-marked countries.
- ...your effects comment is not a suggestion.
By Fyrd, # Apr 7, 2008 1:05:52 PM
- Sometimes it can be hard to see when countries get marked red, maybe flash them once or twice
- With effects it's extremely slow
By Helmers, # Apr 5, 2008 7:05:50 AM
By skulldyvan, # Apr 3, 2008 0:27:17 AM
Changelog for version 1.6:
- Made no special effects default again
- Made startup faster
- Fixed background for options (was broken in Russian)
- Added version number in title
By Fyrd, # Apr 1, 2008 4:50:09 PM
- Added support for language packs
- Added Russian language as option
- Fixed scrollbar bug when resizing
- Fixed background for Capital->Location mode
- Now shows high score display for any selection with high score
- No longer accepts clicks on completed countries
- Fixed circled countries being hidden
- Fixed circled country hover effect
- Added more circled countries
- Optimized some country shapes
- Animated minimize effect
- Optimized resize animation effect
Anyone interested in translating the widget into another language, please contact me. You can use this file to see what text needs to be translated and how it needs to be formatted. Note that I mostly just need the interface text translated, the actual country/state/capital names I can probably do myself.
By Fyrd, # Mar 31, 2008 0:10:42 AM
I submitted it a few days ago, not sure what the reason is for the delay...
@GreyWyvern - Thanks! That means a lot to me coming from a veteran widget maker.
By Fyrd, # Mar 28, 2008 6:11:20 PM
By GreyWyvern, # Mar 28, 2008 2:16:41 AM
BTW, could the next version contain a version number in a corner?
Keep up the good work.
By skulldyvan, # Mar 27, 2008 8:49:56 PM
Re: lag - I suspect it's slower on larger maps because there's more countries to draw. I might be able to speed it up by simplifying the country shapes, but then they might look a bit ugly and harder to identify when zoomed in. Also, it makes countries fit less nice against each other.
I believe this is mainly something for Opera to improve, and it's already faster in Opera 9.5 beta compared to Opera 9.2x.
Re: Brunei and other small countries - These should be a lot easier to select and display properly in V1.5, let me know if there are still any countries with problems.
Re: autozoom - An excellent idea, and one I'd considered before myself...I already know the mouse sensitivity can't be changed, though hypothetically one might be able to emulate the behavior. The zoom part is probably be possible, but might slow down the widget even more. It's definitely something I'd like to look into.
By Fyrd, # Mar 25, 2008 5:49:40 PM
Also, among other reccomandations, maybe a zoom option would be nice so you can get countries like Brunei when playing on whole Asia and kanders suggestion (and I might add that after clicking Malaysia Brunei is unselectable b/c it is covered in green too and the border is not visible at all)
UPDATE:
Maybe an autozoom option like: when going with te mouse pointer over an area like Israel and Jordan a magnyfied version of the area could appear in a corner and the sensitiviy of the mouse could decrease so you can click more precisely.(I don't say that after going over such an area you'll have to go with the mouse over the magnified version, it should work like the magnifier of windows for disabled people, only show, which is why I'd sugest an automatic loss of senivity of the mouse)
P.S.: I don't know how much of this the widget engine makes possible but more of these features the better if you ask me.
By skulldyvan, # Mar 22, 2008 4:06:09 PM
Also, thanks for that info, I'll see what I can do to fix it.
@kander - Thank you very much! Delighted to hear it.
You're absolutely right, that makes sense. Should be an easy fix for next update. Thanks again!
By Fyrd, # Mar 18, 2008 8:20:39 PM
One minor request: When in Name-To-Location mode, would it be possible to disable the onClick for countries that have already been marked (either blue or red)? Especially on large maps (Africa without filter), it's very easy to misclick (lost track of the times I hit Senegal instead of Gambia...), especially when trying to set personal speedrecords. Since these countries are no longer a valid choice, disabling the click event has only benefits, as far as I can se...
By kander, # Mar 18, 2008 2:20:23 PM