I am an Android developer (working in Java) and want to write a geographical quiz game. The quiz will need a list of countries and will randomly choose one to highlight on a map (probably using Google Maps). Then the user can type in the name of the country.
What web services are available that will give me the polygon data of the border of a given country?
Best Answer
You could use the Google Fusion tables version (see related blog post) of the Natural Earth world boundaries dataset with the Google Maps API, as in these answers: