Tripgeo Cities

A few months ago Map Channels kindly offered to create a json feed for my Guess This City game. I had been complaining about having to add a new city to the game every day. Map Channels then volunteered to create a feed for the game which gives the name, coordinates, population and a description of a different city each and every day. The result is that Guess This City now updates daily without needing any input from me.

Map Channels created the json feed by building a large database of major global cities. This database was created using a combination of GeoNames, Open AI / ChatGPT and Wikipedia. This cities database includes a lot of information which actually isn't needed or included in the daily Guess This City feed. Some of this additional information is however now used by the Tripgeo Trivia game.

TripGeo Trivia is a daily geography quiz which requires you to identify ten cities based on a number of clues. Every day ten new random cities from around the world need to be identified. To help you in this task you can view three clues as to the identity of each city. The data behind the game all comes from the same Map Channels city database which powers Guess This City.

The Map Channels city database is now also used by Tripgeo Cities. Tripgeo Cities is a new interactive map containing information about 10,000 cities and towns around the world. Click on any of these cities on the map and 20 markers are added to the map to highlight some of the most important landmarks in the selected city. A significant description of the city is also provided beneath the map, alongside information on each of the mapped landmarks.

Some of the information about each city is generated by AI. This means that the information may not be 100% accurate and the project is definitely a work in progress. However in general the data is pretty good and, with further development, will improve over time. Tripgeo aims to expand and improve the TripGeo Cities resource in the future and to incorporate the data into more mapping projects. 

For now Tripgeo Cities is a great way to discover some of the most significant places to visit in cities around the world. It is also a fantastic tool for a little virtual tourism. For example, if you use the eye and arrow buttons under each city map you can take a fascinating virtual tour around the selected city's most interesting and significant landmarks on Google Maps Street View.