New Happy Birthday Switzerland

Today is Swiss National Day, a national vacation to grade the signing of the Federal Charter. In early on August 1291 iii Alpine cantons swore the oath of confederation, an activity which is forthwith seen to cause got been the foundation of Switzerland.

To celebrate Swiss National Day Vasile Coțovanu has released an animated time-line map, Accession of the Cantons to the Swiss Confederation, which shows when each of the cantons became members of the federal nation of Switzerland. Play the time-line as well as the map automatically highlights each canton on the appointment it joined the federation. You tin besides select each canton on the map to larn the appointment when it joined Switzerland.

The base of operations map used inwards the time-line is the superb Swisstopo topographical map. It is worth setting the time-line to 1291 as well as simply zooming inwards on the mountains of Switzerland to admire this amazing topographical map.

Version ane of this map genuinely used Google Maps. If yous desire to persuasion the Google Maps API version yous tin practise so here.

Once yous cause got studied the Accession of the Cantons map yous tin examine out your noesis of Swizz geography on Vasile Coțovanu's Swiss Geopuzzle. In the game yous cause got to drag polygons of the Swiss cantons onto their right place on the map. H5N1 timer keeps rails of how long it takes yous to consummate the game as well as your electrical flow score is besides displayed on the map.

This game uses the draggable polygons selection inwards the Google Maps API. The code for the Vasile Geopuzzle is available on GitHub as well as tin endure easily customized for whatever expanse inwards the world. To create your ain puzzle amongst the code all yous genuinely demand is the GeoJSON information for the polygons yous want to use.

The game besides makes effective piece of job of Vasile's pop Masked Polygons library. The Masked Polygon library is used to define the boundary of the game. For example, inwards the Switzerland Cantons game Switzerland is highlighted on the map using the masked polygon library. Consequently players tin clearly run across the expanse of game-play on the map.