Apparently a Google engineer has been trying to map every river. It appearently is very accurate. However I cannot tell, I try and zoom out to see the east coast but it freezes up before I can.
http://www.fieldands...t=Google Reader
If it is as accurate as they say, it's be cool to see if this can be merged with natureserve info for more accurate data.
river mapping
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, Nov 28 2013 01:06 AM
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mattknepley
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Posted 28 November 2013 - 08:55 AM
It is pretty neat. It freezes up on me around the MO/IL border. The most interesting thing it illustrates, to me, from what I've seen is all the bodies of water in the west that just "start and end", not making it to another body of water on account of the aridness.
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Michael Wolfe
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Posted 28 November 2013 - 09:04 AM
It worked fine for me... its never locked up, but did get real slow, but it helps if you zoom out first to move around. When you are zoomed way in, it is just too much data, and it is very slow to load... zoom out to make big moves (like trying to get all the way back to out side of the US (GA, SC,NH).
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Posted 28 November 2013 - 03:20 PM
I just tried it, but it really did not work. Maybe you need a lot more time for things to load, who knows.
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Posted 02 December 2013 - 06:52 AM
It seems clear to me that the site is designed for laymen, as the processor resources hosting the site are no match for the processing power of a NANFA member well versed and amazed by a large scale watershed map. I think that's why it sorta craps out. But if you're patient, it will work. And when it does, the URL changes based on where you pan, so I navigated to the ole New River Valley here in Virginia and saved the page. This may make it more useful for everyone, if you can scale it down and load it for the area of interest from then on.
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Posted 02 December 2013 - 10:27 AM
Does it zoom in to smaller streams or do anything else beyond what NationalAtlas Streamer can do?
http://nationalatlas...er/welcome.html
http://nationalatlas...er/welcome.html
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Michael Wolfe
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Posted 02 December 2013 - 10:33 AM
Its much more detailed than Streamer (which doesnt have my local ditch/creek/stream on it).
This Google tool has much smaller creeks and runs on it.
This Google tool has much smaller creeks and runs on it.
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