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37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
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nicocarsui✦AI Summary
This project visualizes global geography through a crowdsourced map where users draw borders and coastlines from memory. The resulting data shows how collective human perception of world maps varies in accuracy and consensus.
Why it matters
It offers a unique look at human cognitive mapping and the cultural or educational factors that influence how we perceive global borders.
Drawings have an opacity based on their score and ink builds up. Strong means accurate; dark means many people drew the same line. Nothing is dropped for being a bad guess. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan.
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