Pop quiz: Can you recognize a major city based on an outline map?
Gretchen Peterson's City Maps: A Coloring Book for Adults provides maps of 44 major cities around the world for plannerds to color in to their heart's content.
But first things first: Can you identify those blank maps?
The Guardian challenges you to try with ten (pre-colored) images from the book, which is based on data from OpenStreetMap. The maps are pretty bare-bones—but a few iconic layouts are still instantly recognizable. Reward yourself with some coloring time for every guess you get right.
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