Creating online geography game ‘Globle’ was relatively simple. Making it accurate is the real puzzle

In the process of creating the game to practice his web skills, Train learned something else that he wasn’t expecting: Many national borders are in different places to different people, and the act of creating a single world map for a universal web audience is so politically fraught that some tech giants long ago gave up trying. — Los Angeles Times/TNS

The geography quiz game Globle was a product of quarantine boredom, its popularity a happy side effect.

While stuck working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, Abe Train, 26, of Toronto, decided to study web development, quit his corporate job and try something new. Inspired after the simple web-based word game Wordle gained widespread popularity in January, Train created an imitator just to practice his skills.