I do wish there was a river settings to better highlight rivers.
GIS nerds be like
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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someguy3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
K4mpfie@feddit.de 11 months ago
river-runner-global.samlearner.com
Maybe that’s something for you?
macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Wow this is unreal
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you’re taking requests, could you point me to a visualization that shows the navigable ones (including canals, BTW)?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months 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 11 months ago
Good point. They’re always impossible to find unless you already know exactly where to look
grahamja@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Download the surveyed water data, turn the layer on, profit?
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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 Get that, turn on cartographic overlays (outdated scans but still useful), aerial imagery, download and import nhd data, pull up ngs website, and enjoy.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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Thanks for the recommendation! Downloading osm now o7
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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 11 months ago
I heard you’re not supposed to go source-to-mouth
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sometimes, in the heart of obsession, it’s forgivable to go source to mouth.
vonSvard@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Iz just smellz…
PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
I feel targeted.
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Trying to find the right zoom level that shows the name of the river
thebuoyancyofcitrus@beehaw.org 11 months 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 11 months ago
smh at folks using googlemaps instead of qgis
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
I attempt to create a TIN from survey data collected with the tree survey.
Rolls RPLS…
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
This guy maps
weariedfae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol, relatable.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Me exploring railroads on GSV…
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Modern technology has really spoilt us
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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 11 months ago
It goes… underground!
xilliah@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Prefer to go the other way around.
VapeNoir@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Whom amongst us
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
xkcd.com/1169/
deus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Of course there’s a xkcd about it.