European capitals
Source:
Maps generated with the tools pscoast and psxy (generic mapping tools).
The geodata came from data provided with the generic mapping tools and
from Wikipedia.
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release all maps provided
with this card set into the public domain.
Description:
This set of cards contains most of the capital cities of europe.
Names in english, german and spanish.
Changes:
2009/02/11
- Reduced size of zip-archive
- Put maps in a subfolder 'european_capitals'
- Changed the category name to 'European Capitals'
- Added missing capital cities
2009/04/16
- Reduced size of zip-archive - thanks to Tim Bourke for reducing the image's size
- Removed the .svn subdirectory - again thanks to Tim Bourke for pointing that out
2009/07/27
- Added a second zip-archive with gwern's version of the set. It uses the
overlay feature and the images are in a directory called 'maps' instead of 'images'.
For most users this version should be more convenient.
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Capital names
Some of the cards are just 'capital-name', with no picture. I had a hard time visualizing all of Europe; I've looked at some of the other geography decks, and they use the nice overlay feature http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/help/adding-media.php to show the empty/default map, and then when the answer is selected, replace it with the highlighted map (which avoids having 2 maps on the screen at the same time). It makes it much nicer for me, and I saved an XML file of the category with the tags added to all the appropriate questions. The results look like:
Geography:European capitals
<img src="images/maps/european_capitals/europa_staedte.png"><card style="answerbox: overlay"/>
english: <b>Belgrade</b>
deutsch: <b>Belgrad</b>
español: <b>Belgrado</b>
serbisch: <b>Beograd</b>
<img src="images/maps/european_capitals/europa_staedte_belgrad.png">
(I'd send it to you, Martin, but I couldn't find your email address.)
Cool Maps
I like these cards and the idea.
Running
for f in *.png; do convert -colors 256 $f $f.png && mv $f.png $f; doneover the images, where convert comes with ImageMagick, would reduce their size to 1.6MB.It might be nice to include an unhilighted map on the cards that present a city name and ask for its location. The `answer overlay' feature can be used to handle the two maps nicely.
Two minor points: