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Someone has probably already written some JS that plays the game automatically.

The way I'd do it is 1) track the current turn, 2) look up the city's coordinates using a reverse geocoder like OSM's Nominatim[1], and 3) draw a marker at the location using Leaflet.

[1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

https://gist.github.com/benwaffle/c61d0fb29ced1f7bacdfdd4dc2...

Nicely done! I'm not that good at JS to be honest :P

If I know precisely the location of a city (like Kyiv, Istanbul in my case) I was able to pin it with 20 to 45km precision. I think it's close enough on a world scale.

It would be nice indeed but the fact that you cannot zoom limits the number of requests to the map tiles provider.