Monday, December 17. 2007

WSJ Profiles Low Tech Geo Game Sweeping the 'Net

It's called Traveler IQ Challenge and basically involves clicking on the location of a well-known or lesser known world locations and attractions. Among the chin strokers who consider its value is Jerome Dobson who notes any upsweep in interest in geography is good and quotes "writer Ambrose Bierce said around the time of World War I that 'War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.' "

Of amusement to me:

Travel IQ provides its own report card, of sorts, on geographical skills. Among those who use the game on Facebook, Tata Consultancy Services, a technology consulting firm based in India, had the lowest average Traveler IQ among workplaces, at least until the rankings were updated during the middle of this week. Mike McCabe, a spokesman for Tata Consultancy Services in the U.S., in an email called the findings "interesting" and said the company will consider them when training its staff, though he said, "Engineering skills and an overall cultural understanding of the company and its customers" are higher priorities at Tata than geography.

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This game is a ton of fun! although my scores aren't exactly miss South Carolina bad, i have a lot of room for improvement. i posted it last week on the VE blog here:

http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!10100.entry

and others have been posting some amazing scores. Greg Sla who works on the virtual earth map team put up a remarkable 655k which isn't too far off of the worldwide leader.

#1 Steve Lombardi (Link) on 2007-12-17 11:28 (Reply)

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