“The photo collection of WW I is one of the largest of the Swiss Federal Archives. It contains more than 5125 negatives on glass plates which are successively digitized. They document the active service of the Swiss Army during the first World War Can you guess where the pictures were taken?”

This is a web game about guessing and learning about geography through imagea and maps, made with Swisstopo's GeoAdmin map of Switzerland. After several years of development as a series of GeoAdmin StoryMaps - try the original SwissGuesser game here - we play tested, forked and started a refresh of the project at #GLAMhack 2017.

We updated all library dependencies but got rid of the old data loading mechanism, with the goal of connecting (later in real time) to open data sources such as Wikidata/Commons. A test is being done via the Wikidata Linked Data endpoint (see app/data/*.sparql in wikidata-initial branch), notably via datasets tagged 'glam' on Opendata.swiss for creating custom games.

There are a few other improvement ideas in mind already:

• Redesign to improve aesthetics and usability.
• Add a new title and tutorial, complete with loading sequence.
• Difficulty levels.
• Multiple guesses.
• Cooperative play (e.g. ghost traces of a friend)
• High scores.
• Sound f/x!

..and we would be glad to see more ideas and any contributions: please raise an Issue or PR if you're so inclined!

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• GeoAdmin API
• Wikidata API

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