the result is more honest than any official map

That's pretty good actually.  And kind of a cool way of visualizing.  Any individual person's memory is probably super janky, but you average them out and get something approximating reality.

SimpleStacker

Borderline is a game where a state appears with its borders wiped off the map, and the player has to draw them from memory. Every line is kept anonymously and overlaid on the others. Where most people agree, the ink builds into a clear line; where memory is vague, the lines spread out.

There are already 1,459 drawings of US states and coastlines, with a median score of 31.2 and a median error of 201.6 km. The result is a map of how people remember the country, not how it is.

charts_and_maps

Borderline is a game where a state appears with its borders wiped off the map, and the player has to draw them from memory. Every line is kept anonymously and overlaid on the others. Where most people agree, the ink builds into a clear line; where memory is vague, the lines spread out.

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There are already 1,459 drawings of US states and coastlines, with a median score of 31.2 and a median error of 201.6 km. The result is a map of how people remember the country, not how it is.