| Here's an explanation of how I created this game. First, I found the description of the center of each state from the website mentioned above. Then I created 50 waypoints using Garmin Mapsource software. Then I used the direct route option (distance as the crow flies) in Mapsource to check the distances from the center of Kansas (I decided to start in Kansas because the geographic center of the 48 states is located there) to each state center which looked like it might have a chance of being closet. In this case...Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma. Then, looking at the distances of the possible routes I deleted all but the shortest...in this case Kansas - Oklahoma. Then on to Oklahoma to repeat the process, etc. I did an alt-prt scr of the resulting map, cropped and saved it using Photoshop and uploaded it to Photobucket for all of you to see:) |