Places around the world

[rsc]

Thanks to curlygrrrl for the link. I've omitted places I've only changed planes or passed through without stopping (otherwise I could add Iran, Thailand, Ireland, and maybe a couple of others). I've included Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina rather than Yugoslavia even though those places were (part of) Yugoslavia when I was there.

I'll be adding Costa Rica in another 6 weeks or so. I've also been to both the British and US Virgin Islands, which aren't in the list (and probably wouldn't show up on the map).



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[jss]

> which aren't in the list (and probably wouldn't show up on the map).

If you've visited the US, all US territories show up red on the map, including (if the pixels are visible) the USVI. Similarly if you've visited the UK then all their [remaining] territories show up as well.

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean, Greenland, El Salvador too!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Then why does Puerto Rico get its own entry?

Of course, showing all the territories is a bit misleading. Actually I saw there was some discussion on the page about whether Denmark ought to imply Greenland (which it doesn't, and shouldn't). Since I've been to France, should St. Pierre et Miquelon show up, if they were visible? (I have in fact been to St. Pierre, but that's beside the point.)

[jss]

It's not my code, so I wouldn't presume to speak to those points. However, I'd argue that if it's a country-based quiz/map then any country should have its own entry. How does one define "country," though? It looks at a first cursory glance that the author's using ISO TLDs for the mapping; if there's a top level domain for the country (such as .uk for United Kingdom) then that country's pixels are red or green depending on whether or not (respectively) you say you visited them.

I too wish the author'd been consistent with some policy, though. And it's not like the USVI (.vi) and the UKVI (.vg) don't have their own TLDs, just like Puerto Rico (.pr) and Greenland (.gl) and St. Pierre et Miquelon (.pm).

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Well, as I say, there is a way to comment on the site (down at the very bottom of the page), and there have already been some discussions about what is a "country". It occurs to me that another place I've been that I didn't see on the list is Hong Kong, which of course is now part of China, but to give an answer that would paint all of China red just seems wrong to me.

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

What is everyone's obsession with Costa Rica??? I know a dozen or so people who have recently gone to, are now in, or are soon going to Costa Rica. Have I not promoted Panamá sufficiently??? Panamá has everything Costa Rica has (except active volcanos) and more. <sigh>

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Well, we're going to Costa Rica because that's where there's a week of contra-dancing. If the dance trip had been to Panamá, we'd probably have gone there.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

Costa Rica has the Pura Vida Contra Dance trip at the beginning of March.

(I did change planes in Panamá returning from Colombia many years ago but that doesn't count.)