{"id":1791190,"date":"2021-06-02T20:06:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791190"},"modified":"2021-06-02T20:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T00:06:41","slug":"river-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/06\/river-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"River Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Learner<\/a>’s River Runner<\/a> is an amazing visualization that traces the path of a raindrop falling anywhere in the contiguous United States to where it reaches the ocean or leaves U.S. territory. “It’ll find the closest river\/stream flowline coordinate to a click\/search and then animate along that flowline’s downstream path.” It’s a tad resource-intensive, and if you end up in the Mississippi basin it will<\/em> take a while (and make clear just how big that river system is), but it’s absolutely transfixing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Learner’s River Runner is an amazing visualization that traces the path of a raindrop falling anywhere in the contiguous United States to where it reaches the ocean or leaves U.S. territory. “It’ll find the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1256],"tags":[621,158],"class_list":["post-1791190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-hydrology","tag-rivers","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788922,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/06\/meander\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791190,"position":0},"title":"Meander","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 June 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/420304695 Meander, created by Robert Hodgin, is \u201ca procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed.\u201d That statement takes some unpacking. 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This is vividly shown in this animation produced by NASA Earth Observatory, which \"shows 14 false-color images of the Padma river between 1988 and 2018 taken by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Hydrology"","block_context":{"text":"Hydrology","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/hydrology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/padma.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/padma.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/padma.gif?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/padma.gif?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3141,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/river-basins-in-rainbow-colours\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791190,"position":2},"title":"River Basins in Rainbow Colours","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 October 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The latest map to go viral is Robert Szucs's\u00a0dramatic and colourful map of the U.S. river basins. It's even more spectacular in high resolution. Made with QGIS, the map separates river basin by colour and\u00a0assigns stream thickness by Strahler number. 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