I do wish there was a river settings to better highlight rivers.
GIS nerds be like
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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someguy3@lemmy.world 2 years ago
K4mpfie@feddit.de 2 years ago
river-runner-global.samlearner.com
Maybe that’s something for you?
macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Wow this is unreal
grue@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If you’re taking requests, could you point me to a visualization that shows the navigable ones (including canals, BTW)?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
There’s another cool site like this that wasn’t as graphically cool but popped up various rivers quickly just by mousing over. Can’t find it right now but I’ll check again to see if I can dig it up.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Good point. They’re always impossible to find unless you already know exactly where to look
grahamja@reddthat.com 2 years ago
Download the surveyed water data, turn the layer on, profit?
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
openstreetmaps ftw. Get that, turn on cartographic overlays (outdated scans but still useful), aerial imagery, download and import nhd data, pull up ngs website, and enjoy. Help us map rivers! Even better if you can do an actual ground survey w/ gps.
books@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I spent way toonlong mapping our houses in my neighborhood. It’s always funny to see my work on apps, I’m like shit that street is missing houses I need to get on it.
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
yeah, it’s addictive, I started with sidewalks in my neighbirhood, and before I knew it, I was mapping parking zones, fire hydrants, trash cans, benches, traffic signals, speed limits, turn lanes…
Pantoffel@feddit.de 2 years ago
Okay what is nhd and ngs? When I’m horny for aerial imagery, I’m usually browsing Landsat and Sentinel archives.
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
National hydrography dataset and national geodetic survey (but I actually meant USGS, they provide a lot of data, their map viewer is a good introduction).
Kase@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Thanks for the recommendation! Downloading osm now o7
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Be sure to check out the osm wiki! For editing, you can use their web viewer, but I personally prefer JOSM for more advanced work. Vespucci is a great tool for mapping on your phone.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
I heard you’re not supposed to go source-to-mouth
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Sometimes, in the heart of obsession, it’s forgivable to go source to mouth.
vonSvard@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Iz just smellz…
PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I like to do this for civil constructions.
You ever took a look an desert settlements?
There are so many awesome things to see there, and thinking of all the little humans doing their shit there is mesmerizing.
Kind of Sim city/sims in real life
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
Agreed, I’ve learned a lot doing this. Sometimes it leads to a story, like the ruins of a federal fire watchtower that was destroyed by arson, or discovering one of the largest fisheries in the country. I’ve also noticed a lot more houses are torn down in my city than might be expected. Whole blocks are empty fields now, or maybe have one derelict house remaining.
It’s also disturbing just how much trash people collect in their yards… and the massive wounds of foresting and strip mining.
Pantoffel@feddit.de 2 years ago
Ugh, I was in rural china once and the uncle of my ex threw all his trash in his back yard. Disgusting. Nobody really minded though. They didn’t approve, but they didn’t confront him.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I feel targeted.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I feel seen :D
It’s a fun way to do some free virtual tourism. Especially if it’s well travelled places with plenty of used content. Plus, you get to be as nosy as you want, without making people uncomfortable.
I love looking at odd architecture for example, but not everyone would appreciate me walking around their building and peering intently through the windows.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 years ago
I used to process aerial imagery and it was so good for this reason. It was like playing Geoguesser as a job.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That sounds like an awesome job. As someone who loves aviation, photography and maps, I’d probably really enjoy that. How’d you get into that field if you don’t mind me asking?
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 years ago
My wife and I used to take care of her grandmother. I had a simple VR headset and I would show her parts of cities she hadn’t been to in street view.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Trying to find the right zoom level that shows the name of the river
thebuoyancyofcitrus@beehaw.org 2 years ago
Why do that when you can pull in a hydrological dataset and perform stream network analysis to find the flow path between your points of interest?
spaduf@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
smh at folks using googlemaps instead of qgis
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Why follow a line when I could make a DEM from some LIDAR data, then run Aspect and Accumulation functions and dilemeate watersheds?
KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl 2 years ago
You’re now playing GIS DnD:
The LiDAR dataset you’re using was scanned in a forested area and doesn’t include any secondary return data. As a result, your watersheds are occluded and the data doesn’t provide the greatest cartography.
What do you do?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I attempt to create a TIN from survey data collected with the tree survey.
Rolls RPLS…
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 years ago
This guy maps
weariedfae@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Lol, relatable.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Me exploring railroads on GSV…
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Modern technology has really spoilt us
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Bro wtf where does the river come from? I tried following it upstream on gmaps but it just stops in the middle of some field. Not even a mountain or something
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It goes… underground!
xilliah@beehaw.org 2 years ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Prefer to go the other way around.
VapeNoir@hexbear.net 2 years ago
Whom amongst us
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 years ago
xkcd.com/1169/
deus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Of course there’s a xkcd about it.