River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
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River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
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Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#2cool
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#3Wow I clicked thinking the concept was neat enough on its own but the execution was engaging and informative. This is great
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#4This is simply amazing. I expect to spend hours on this with the kids. Thanks!
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#5This is amazing, outstanding project! Interestingly, I got it "stuck" when I clicked somewhere random in California (Pope Valley, apparently): https://i.imgur.com/deOsIt2.png
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#6This is very cool. It would be nice if it showed how long the path is, so you could play a mini game to try and find the longest path.
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#7This is very cool. It would be nice if it showed how long the path is, so you could play a mini game to try and find the longest path.
It shows the total length in the top right corner.
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#8A friend of mine has a house set on one of the boundaries, the west half of his roof empties into the Mississippi, the east half into Lake Michigan.
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#9This is a lot of fun. As a resident of Maryland, I was mildly surprised to find that the Chesapeake Bay is treated as part of the Atlantic Ocean, instead of an individual waterway in its own right. I suppose this is probably due to the underlying data set, but it doesn't seem right to me.
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#10Cool project - and I like that it uses USGS hydrography data.
They publish all kinds of terrain survey information about the entire USA for free. There's probably enough data to make your own GPS mapping device/app.