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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
#42Unconsciously I expected that the drop would always end up in larger bodies of water. So I was surprised when it went from a creek to a river and to a lake, and then back to a creek. We're probably missing some groundwater visualization :)
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#43I was curious to see what happens to rain in Death Valley (below sea level).
https://river-runner.samlearner.com/?lng=-116.84629411503326...
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#44Accolades! Since no one else has done it I will ask for features: sometimes it takes a while for it to determine the route, there is no way to cancel that to go back to trying a new raindrop location Wish there was a different way to get back to raindrop location instead of closing the existing route. Would prefer some kind of click/tap-state or gesture. More easily noticeable of an inconvenience on an ultrawide scre…
I love it. Another feature request would be to not fly the path but just show the plotted flow.
You can cancel the animation part by clicking the close button on the top right panel.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#45Really impressive!
Feature suggestion 1: Maybe you could pre-render a grid of rain drops to get a nice overview of the flow paths and how they converge. Would be cool and interesting.
Feature suggestion 2: It might be possible to include man-made structures along the path, and to include a small delay when the water is halted by dams/power stations/whatevers.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#46This 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.
Yeah, ecologically the Chesapeake is very distinct.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#47At a high level, I really like this. Some UX concerns are all that stop it from being amazing:
- The mouse should be a pointer, not a hand. Not only is that the expectation when an element is interactive, but it helps with precision clicking.
- The map almost made me sick when it starting moving. It needs to be slower and smoother. You already let people speed it up, but start slower.
- Dragging the map should be possible. I wanted to scroll back to something that had moved off-screen, and the map dragged a few pixels, then snapped back. If it is supposed to be draggable, let it drag. If not, don't let a drag start and then snap it back.
But really, those concerns aside, this is a nice tool.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#48That's cool. I didn't know MapBox had 3D like Google Earth
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#49Amazing but wrong. Most water goes down into the earth. Fucking waste of time.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#50That's was pretty cool.
I had a weird thing going on at first where the map data seemed really old, especially when I was at about "city" level. Interchanges and neighborhoods that I know that have been there since at least 2002 were nowhere to be found. It wasn't until I zoomed way in and then back out again did the map change and they showed up.