LearnYouACity

When moving to a new town, people will be talking about streets and you'll have no idea where they are.

For moderately-sized towns (population 100.000?), I figure it'd be perfectly doable to just learn where everything is. Best way do to that would, imho, be with a game.

Gathering data

• Have the user select a region (or perhaps a bounding box is easier at first)
• Fetch all streets, POI's from this region

Game flow

• Determine the next target, show it to the user (as text)
• Show a zoomed-out version of the region, with a (2x2? 3x3?) grid
• Users clicks a quadrant
  • Incorrect answer: highlight the correct quadrant(s)
  • Correct anwer:
    • Zoomed in a lot? Success! Highlight the target street
    • Not zoomed in a lot? Zoom in one level
• Repeat

Nice-to-haves

• Be smart about picking the next target:
  • Based on which streets the user already answered correctly
  • Based on which streets are 'important'
    • based on road type
    • based on length
    • based on percentage of users who got this question right
• Statistics
• Achievements

Code!

I gave this a shot at https://github.com/raboof/learnyouacity - it's crude, but fun.

Play!

http://learnyouacity.herokuapp.com