This looks pretty cool! BTW, if anyone lapped another person in the post race, I would be before the send person to do so...

Excuse me..."send was supposed to be "second"...that's a huge typo.

Wasn't TI going to make this into a paying APP?

Yeah but Kirk Meyer explains below.

This is cool. Now if we were only allowed to use calculators on Geography tests... :)

wow, awesome app for... well im not sure what exactly it could be used for, unless you could convince national geographic to allow calculators in the geography bee...
This looks like a ton of work to program, and I commend Kirk for his effort.

pity it only shows detail in the USA... maybe a later version will show more...

that is just a screen shot

I know it's just a screens shot, but the full version only shows the extra stuff of the USA too (eg.states).

I added the USA state outlines because I suspected that most users would be from the USA. In an effort to keep the size of the application somewhat reasonable, I didn't add any other political boundaries - and I certainly don't want to release a separate version for each country! The data points may not even be freely available for some countries.

You should make for Europe and Asia and such too, i think only 1/2 of the people here are from USA!!

Find the datasets for free and I will consider it. I suspect however that doing a whole continent worth of "states" would be very large. For example, I didn't do all of North America because the Mexican provinces added a significant amount of size.

Try an Almanac?????

Heh I meant data points in a computer-usable format, i.e. GIS data. I'm not about to vectorize the maps with that amount of precision by hand, but if you would like to, go ahead...

There's the CIA World Map, but AFAIK it is _way_ too detailed to be used as is in OurWorld. (There is no way to fit all that on a calculator.)

And it's not GIS data...

What's that? Is it similar to mapquest? ;)

no, i think its a kind of nut...

Never mind then, I'm alergic to nuts. (not really)

Hold it, wasn't this supposed to be a "for pay" app? Did TI back out of the deal?

MWM

There was never a "deal" finalized - let's just say that TI can take a long time to respond to things sometimes, and finally it was determined that this program did not fit with their current math/science focus.

I wonder if I will win the app contest if I make an app that shows the geography of The Netherlands...hmmm.

Whether you'll win the app contest I don't know, but as long as you put Flevoland in, I'll definitely download your app. :D
@Kirk, looks like your GIS-data is a bit out of date. In the Netherlands, you're missing an entire province (that's our equivalent of a USA state).

I think he left out all provinces and stuff besides US states on purpose...

I didn't mean the border isn't drawn, I meant *Flevoland is not there*. (It's displayed as if it were sea.)
You see, we had this huge lake (or small sea, whatever you wanna call it) where we built a couple of dykes, threw the water out, and got ourself another province. (Yes, people are actually living on what used to be the bodem of a sea. We Dutch are a wacky lot, aren't we? ;) )

Oh, I get it now... That's Awesome! I'm moving there!

Dutch is a good way to be :P

(I'm about 1/2 Dutch myself :))

Isn't most of The Netherlands reclaimed land? (in other words, the sea's land taken by dikes :P)
If not most, then isn't a good percentage?

Not most, but indeed a rather large part. I couldn't slap a percentage on it, but I can assure you the map would look very different if we hadn't taught the sea who's the boss. :D
If there wouldn't be any dikes, and the sea level raises by 5 lousy meters, about half the country is reclaimed by the sea (which happens to include the most densly populated areas)....

BTW, I'd like to congratulate Kirk on finding a new use for our beloved calcs (or should I say 'a new class where we can use them'?), good job!

TI is so dumb some times. This thing is sweet!

Yes, sweet... I use it even though I have a real map!

So do I but I'm not about to open it up in class. :)

WHOA! Wait a second! How is this program not science-related? TI must be breaking down...

well, it does not directly relate to the three core sciences (in high school): chemistry, physics, and biology.

Well, social studies is a science.

yeah, but its also a humanity

Nope, there is no way in hell you are conviencing me of that.

-W-

Social Studies: The study of society.

Now geography on the other hand...

Why is geography considered under Social Studies anyway?

Beats me, I can see why Social Studies is a humanity but not how geography is a social study.

It is in my school... OR IS IT?

Oh, so they didn't want to branch out into geography?

MWM

I think they should. It's a good program, I don't see why not. Besides, TI obviously cares about money (a lot), so you think they'd want to expand to get MORE MONEY... *shrug*

That's REALLY stupid of them-it seems just like the kind of thing TI would like (and it looks awesome, too!!!!).