{"id":3141,"date":"2016-10-23T21:25:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T01:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2018-08-17T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:40:55","slug":"river-basins-in-rainbow-colours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/river-basins-in-rainbow-colours\/","title":{"rendered":"River Basins in Rainbow Colours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The latest map to go viral is Robert Szucs’s\u00a0dramatic and colourful map<\/a> of the U.S. river basins. It’s even more spectacular in high resolution. Made with QGIS<\/a>, the map separates river basin by colour and\u00a0assigns stream thickness by Strahler number<\/a>. I do have a couple of quibbles.\u00a0The map doesn’t distinguish between the Hudson Bay and Atlantic watersheds: the Great Lakes and Red River basins are coloured the same way. And speaking of the Great Lakes, I have no idea why they look like ferns here. The map is available for sale on Etsy<\/a>, along with similar maps of other countries, continents and regions.\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… 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":[49,1256],"tags":[556,621,158],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","category-hydrology","tag-etsy","tag-rivers","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1825041,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/01\/the-ocean-drainage-basin-maps-of-robert-szucs\/","url_meta":{"origin":3141,"position":0},"title":"The Ocean Drainage Basin Maps of Robert Szucs","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 January 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"Smithsonian magazine takes a look at the ocean drainage basin maps of Robert Szucs, whose work we first saw in 2016. 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