Cool quiz - ID world city based on subway map

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/30/world-cities-quiz-naked-geographically-accurate-metro-maps

[Buzz Clik]

1. I recognized the four I've used.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. For me it was trying to visualize what the city looked like first. What four?

[GreatGazoo]

3. got 9

love the joke answer: "Los Angeles"

[marmar]

4. 10 of 11 right......

Oddly enough, the only one I got wrong was London, which was one I would have guaranteed I would have gotten right.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Me too, but I got San Francisco wrong.

I was guessing girl.

[smirkymonkey]

13. I lived there, so I got SF right. BART is basically useless if you actually

live in the city. City people mostly take buses, which run on electric and are always coming off the wires. They are also ridiculously crowded.

[KamaAina]

23. Unless you live in the Mission or Glen Park.

Then it's a quick, less crowded way to get down to Market St.

[brooklynite]

5. 11 of 11...

...but I have a professional advantage

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Work for transit system?

[brooklynite]

16. Yes...the biggest

[smirkymonkey]

7. I got a 9 out of 11 correct.

I got Moscow and Beijing wrong.

[geardaddy]

12. I got Moscow wrong, but Beijing right.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. 8 out of 11.

I'm not sure how I did that well, but I did.

[longship]

9. Got 7.

The easy ones:

New York!
Chicago!
Paris!
London!

Mainly because of geographical constraints.

I was just lucky on the rest.

Moscow was easy too.

Mostly I guessed. I am not a world traveler. I have never had a passport.

[petronius]

10. 10/11 - very cool quiz! I like using maps like this in GIS and cartography

lectures, to illustrate the importance of map generalization. It's also an interesting puzzle from the perspective of the history, development, and physical site of the cities (assuming you don't recognize the layouts directly)...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. I have only been to 5 of the cities and answered solely on what I knew

the cities looked like. What throws you at first are the underwater routes you have to discount (i.e. NYC, San Fran).

[geardaddy]

11. 8/11 for me.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. 9/11

I missed Glasgow and San Francisco. Jeez, Glasgow could be anywhere with not much metro.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. Yes, I just figured that Glasgow sounded like the most likely

to have public transit

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. 10/11...Missed Beijing

[uawchild]

18. 9/11

Second guessed myself on San Francisco and changed to a wrong answer. lol

Nice quiz!

[Stardust]

21. Unfortunately, the maps don't appear when I open the link. Is that Los Angeles in your OP?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. bummer. No to LA

[Retrograde]

24. I got all the ones I've been on, and a few more by guessing

I was able to eliminate Barcelona and Buenos Aeres from one since those are both on coasts and wouldn't have lines going off in all directions from the city center. Toronto's easy because of that one line that loops around at the bottom. I'm not sure what that spur on Staten Island is in the NYC one, though.

[KamaAina]

27. The Staten Island Railway

It runs from the ferry in St. George in back of the neighborhoods along Hylan Blvd. and the Atlantic. Above ground, but still considered part of the subway system for fare purposes.

[treestar]

25. 8 of 11

[Warpy]

26. Got 8 right, surprising since the only one I've used is NYC and that was when I was four.

It was easy because so many of them have their shapes dictated by adjacent bodies of water. If you know the geography, you know how a mass transit system will look.

[Behind the Aegis]

28. 8/10

Not bad given I have only been to one of those cities and never rode the subway there.

[Bucky]

29. 8 OUT OF 11

somewhere around "Turin" I began to suspect that not all cities have subway systems

[Mendocino]

30. 10/11

neat quiz

[unc70]

31. 11/11 with several lucky guesses

Have used 6. Educated guesses for the rest.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. Wow - you must have great powers of deduction !

[unc70]

35. Very good powers, but considerable luck

Probably deserved about 8, luck did the rest.

[X_Digger]

33. 0 / 10.

I've been to all the US cities, as well as some of the european cities.. but you'd have to pay me to do mass transit in many of them.

[Stuart G]

34. You got 10/11...missed one..

[lovemydog]

36. I got 10/11

but I was kind of flying by the seat of my pants. Trying to think of which cities actually have mass transit and how it may be arranged. A few cities I did recognize. That was pretty fascinating.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. which one?

[lovemydog]

38. Beijing

I took it again and got them all right. It's fun learning how a city's mass transit is designed.

[LiberalElite]

39. GAA! I misidentified

NYC which is where I live.

[MrScorpio]

40. 10 out of 11

Missed Glasgow.