How the crowd draws

19 drawings of its land border and 51 drawings of its coast, from memory on Borderline’s United Kingdom map, 28 September 2026 to 27 October 2026.

Draw Somerset

RealThe crowd’s

In numbers

Last updated on 28 October 2026

	The real one	The crowd’s
Area	4,242 km²1,638 sq mi	4,003 km²1,546 sq mi5.6% smaller
Outline	435 km270 mi	421 km262 mi3.2% shorter
Centre	2.89° W, 51.15° N2.9° W, 51.1° N	2.92° W, 51.15° N2.9° W, 51.2° N2 km west1 mi west
Westernmost	3.84° W, 51.18° N3.8° W, 51.2° N	3.72° W, 51.14° N3.7° W, 51.1° N8 km short5 mi short
Easternmost	2.24° W, 51.27° N2.2° W, 51.3° N	2.26° W, 51.27° N2.3° W, 51.3° N1 km short1 mi short
Southernmost	2.95° W, 50.82° N3.0° W, 50.8° N	2.88° W, 50.87° N2.9° W, 50.9° N5 km short3 mi short
Northernmost	2.73° W, 51.50° N2.7° W, 51.5° N	2.72° W, 51.49° N2.7° W, 51.5° N1 km short1 mi short

Near the land border, 63% of the crowd’s lines run inside Somerset. Near the coast, 24% run inland.

Borders and coast

5 neighbours

Border with	In the game	The crowd’s
Devon	121 km in the game	131 km the crowd’s8.3% longer
Dorset	90 km in the game	82 km the crowd’s8.9% shorter
Wiltshire	57 km in the game	60 km the crowd’s5.3% longer
Bristol	48 km in the game	49 km the crowd’s2.1% longer
Gloucestershire	20 km in the game	20 km the crowd’sthe same
The coast	105 km in the game	79 km the crowd’s24.8% 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 out5 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 (1.5 MB)

How it is measured

The crowd’s Somerset: every few km along the real line, each drawing’s nearest point, inside Somerset 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 70 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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