How the crowd draws

3 drawings of its land border and 35 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw City of Edinburgh

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	272 km²105 sq mi	250 km²96 sq mi8.3% smaller
Outline	100 km62 mi	105 km65 mi4.8% longer
Centre	3.29° W, 55.93° N3.3° W, 55.9° N	3.27° W, 55.93° N3.3° W, 55.9° N1 km east1 mi east
Westernmost	3.45° W, 55.94° N3.5° W, 55.9° N	3.44° W, 55.98° N3.4° W, 56.0° N1 km short1 mi short
Easternmost	3.07° W, 55.95° N3.1° W, 56.0° N	3.06° W, 55.95° N3.1° W, 55.9° N1 km beyond1 mi beyond
Southernmost	3.39° W, 55.82° N3.4° W, 55.8° N	3.38° W, 55.83° N3.4° W, 55.8° N1 km short1 mi short
Northernmost	3.34° W, 56.00° N3.3° W, 56.0° N	3.31° W, 56.00° N3.3° W, 56.0° N1 km short0 mi short

Near the land border, 60% of the crowd’s lines run inside City of Edinburgh. Near the coast, 67% run inland.

Borders and coast

4 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
West Lothian	34 km in the game	36 km the crowd’s5.9% longer
Midlothian	29 km in the game	32 km the crowd’s10.3% longer
East Lothian	3 km in the game	8 km the crowd’s166.7% longer
Tweeddale	2 km in the game	0 km the crowd’s100.0% shorter
The coast	36 km in the game	32 km the crowd’s11.1% shorter

Watch the drawings

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The worst 20% and the best 20%By how close a drawing comes to the countyDownload (0.2 MB)

Not enough drawings yet

Another country and the UKFrom where are you from; no answer left out6 of 10 drawings from another country needed

The fastest and the slowest thirdBy time spent drawingDownload (0.3 MB)

Quickest and slowest to startBy time before the first lineDownload (0.3 MB)

Where drawings start and endStarts teal, ends pink, piled up blackDownload (0.1 MB)

The drawings stacked as blocksWhere many drawings pass, the stack growsDownload (1.7 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s City of Edinburgh: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside City of Edinburgh or outside it; the median over a short stretch is where the crowd puts the line there, and the real outline moved by it is the crowd’s. Where the move folds a narrow inlet over itself, the loop is cut.

The 38 drawings that scored 10 or more on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, scribbles left out, the real line the game’s own. Area true to scale; the outline copies the real line’s detail, so its length changes only where the shape moves or a loop is cut.

Measuring how far the crowd moves the centre was Matt Forrest’s idea (forrest.nyc).

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