Experimental interactive deck v5.3

[aplaice]

To those not aware, @helitopia has been doing amazing work, developing an interactive map to enhance the "Country - Map" cards.

The interactive map allows you to select the given country/region, on the "front" side, and displays the correct one, with colour-coding telling you whether you answered right or wrong (currently green for right, red for wrong).

Other than the "Country - Map" cards, the new experimental deck is identical to the extended one.

Please note that the experimental deck is still very much experimental (see below in the "Current shortcomings" section)!

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Screenrecordings

Correct selection

correct.mp4

Incorrect selection

incorrect.mp4

Panning around

panning.mp4

Tooltips of countries on back side

tooltips.mp4

The tooltips are displayed if in the card template you change:

        toolTipEnabled: "false",

to

        toolTipEnabled: "true",

(Currently only in English.)

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The implementation is fully local, with all the map data and javascript code on your device(s), and no external calls to any other services. This means that it can work off-line, respects your privacy, is secure (in the sense that nobody can replace the version you have with a malicious one) and is reliable (its continued functioning is not dependent on, say, any first- or third-party servers)! All the new data and code is just 1.3 MB (less than a typical photo), so it also doesn't take up much storage space on your system.

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Current shortcomings

We think that this has potential for being very useful for learning; however, we'd also like to emphasise that it's still very much experimental and the current implementation is still a beta. A partial list of known current shortcomings, all of which we hope to resolve (at some point! :)) in the future:

1. The interactive map only currently works for (not-very-small — for the smallest the map resolution is insufficient) sovereign countries.
2. (As far as we know) the interactive map is broken on iOS.
3. At higher zoom levels the borders are rather granular.
4. When one selects the country (switches from the "front" side to the "back" side of the card) there's an annoying zoom-out before one zooms back to the country.

See also the wiki page for the interactive deck, the discussion thread for the "v0.0" release of this deck and the main GH issues thread about the general development of this feature.

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Testing the deck

Switching from the extended to the interactive deck (and back) should be relatively painless (though CrowdAnki will display some scary popups — please don't change anything in the CrowdAnki cards/fields mapping window) and you should not lose your review history. See the wiki page on switching decks for details.

However, if you want to be extra-safe you can also import and test the deck in a new/temporary Anki profile.

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If you're interested in the interactive map please comment with your thoughts and feedback! We're also looking for people to help develop it further!

[Gulfre]

😮😮😮 woow interesting.

[Fun-Ken]

When interacting with the map, clicking on a country does not trigger any visible response—no selection or related information appears. Additionally, when hovering over seas or oceans, they are not highlighted the way countries are.

Let me know if system specifications would be helpful; I can provide them.

[aplaice]

When interacting with the map, clicking on a country does not trigger any visible response—no selection or related information appears.

Is this on the "front" side or the "back" one? (Is it the case that on the "front" side (what first appears when reviewing the card) clicking on a country has no effect? (What should happen is that when you click on a country, then the correct country is highlighted (in green or red depending on whether your click had been correct or not).) Or is it the case that on the "back" side nothing happens? (i.e. further clicks have no additional effect — this should be the case).)

(The screenrecordings above unfortunately seem to have been removed by GitHub.)

Additionally, when hovering over seas or oceans, they are not highlighted the way countries are.

Seas/oceans are not yet implemented in the interactive map!

Let me know if system specifications would be helpful; I can provide them.

Yes, these would be useful!

[Fun-Ken]

My apologies for the poor explanation.

The issue is that clicking on a country on the front of the card does not highlight it (show an answer, that is the back of the card). The expected highlighting (green or red) only appears after I press the 'Show Answer' button. Is this an expected behavior?

Here’s the specific sequence I am following:

1. Hover over a country.
2. Click the country to select it.
3. Press 'Show Answer'.
4. The answer is shown (the back of the card).

Also, I can seen your screen recordings.

My system specs are:

• OS: Fedora Silverblue 42 (Linux)
• Anki Version: 25.02.4 (a5c33ad0) - Flatpak

[aplaice]

Thanks! This is very helpful!

No, this is indeed not expected behaviour! 3 (press show answer) should not be necessary. (Either one of 2 or 3 should be sufficient to show the back of the card.)

I'll try to see if I can reproduce the bug!

[aplaice]

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the bug on Anki 25.02.4 installed via flatpak on Ubuntu (or "normal" Anki 25.02.7). (This is on X11; maybe this is caused by X11 vs. Wayland? (This is my only remaining guess about the possible cause.))

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Edit (2025-08-09, after the below reply; written as edit rather than a further reply to avoid notification spam for negative info):

Testing on Ubuntu GNOME with Wayland, with flatpak Anki, I still don't get the issue (clicking on country switches to the back card).

[Fun-Ken]

Probably it has something to do with Wayland. Unfortunately, since Fedora 42, X11 is no longer present. I tried to install it using this guide in a VM, but I encountered some problems. For now, I will leave it as it is.

It is not a big deal, but it is a shame that it does not automatically show an answer and I have to press a button.

Thank you, regardless

[felher]

Let me start by saying the interactive maps are incredible. Extremely useful and fun! And it works incredibly well. Thank you.

A small thing I noticed: At least on my devise, it seems like Samoa and American Samoa are not really on the map. I can see Fiji, and what is probably "Wallis and Futuna" and "Matautu" on the right, but this seems to be the end of the map. On the left side, I can see Hawai, Kiribati an French Polynesia, but it feels like Samoa would be further left still.