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 activeness which is forthwith seen to direct hold 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 dry reason of Switzerland. Play the time-line too the map automatically highlights each canton on the appointment it joined the federation. You tin too select each canton on the map to acquire 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 too merely zooming inwards on the mountains of Switzerland to admire this amazing topographical map.

Version 1 of this map genuinely used Google Maps. If you lot desire to sentiment the Google Maps API version you lot tin practise so here.


Once you lot direct hold studied the Accession of the Cantons map you lot tin examine out your noesis of Swizz geography on Vasile Coțovanu's Swiss Geopuzzle. In the game you lot direct hold to drag polygons of the Swiss cantons onto their right place on the map. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 timer keeps rail of how long it takes you lot to consummate the game too your electrical current score is too 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 too tin hold upwards easily customized for whatever expanse inwards the world. To create your ain puzzle amongst the code all you lot genuinely demand is the GeoJSON information for the polygons you lot wishing to use.

The game too makes effective role 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 come across the expanse of game-play on the map.