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Re: Waterway Map

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Post by aqfamnzc »

pavon wrote: post #31

Who mapped these? In New Mexico we have a ton of dry arroyos that maybe have a couple inches of flowing water a few times a year. Zooming in at places I'm familiar with, a surprising number of them are mapped. I know of rez roads[1] nearby that aren't on OSM or any map I know of, but the ditch we used for cross country practice is. Wild! [1] Two-track dirt roads on the Navajo Reservation that are not regularly mainta…

It is from OpenStreetMap. (see header and footer.) You can fix any errors you see!

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Post by yosito »

pavon wrote: post #31

Who mapped these? In New Mexico we have a ton of dry arroyos that maybe have a couple inches of flowing water a few times a year. Zooming in at places I'm familiar with, a surprising number of them are mapped. I know of rez roads[1] nearby that aren't on OSM or any map I know of, but the ditch we used for cross country practice is. Wild! [1] Two-track dirt roads on the Navajo Reservation that are not regularly mainta…

I'm in Thailand, and zooming in to places I'm familiar with, a surprising number of rivers and waterfalls are completely missing. I suppose there are quite a few factors that affect data quality in different regions around the world.

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Post by devilbunny »

nightbrawler wrote: post #46
pavon wrote: post #31

Who mapped these? In New Mexico we have a ton of dry arroyos that maybe have a couple inches of flowing water a few times a year. Zooming in at places I'm familiar with, a surprising number of them are mapped. I know of rez roads[1] nearby that aren't on OSM or any map I know of, but the ditch we used for cross country practice is. Wild! [1] Two-track dirt roads on the Navajo Reservation that are not regularly mainta…

I'm in New Mexico too, there's some creeks I frequent that are considered "navigable waterways" and unless it's monsoon season, you barely get your ankles wet lol.

By the legal standards that I understand to apply, “navigable waterway” is any waterway that is, or could be made, navigable. So it doesn’t take much.

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Post by AlexMuir »

s3krit wrote: post #48

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…

Fellow boater here - I live on a Dutch Barge. Also awake at 0530 with creaking lines in this storm. Lovely lifestyle. We registered our new baby’s address as the boat on a birth certificate last week and had no problems. Good luck to any future researcher geocoding that! I expected a postcode to be required but it wasn’t :)

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Post by hasoleju »

If you zoom in you see a length in km next to each river. For small ones it looks like it is the total length of that waterway. For bigger rivers that I'm familiar with I was not able to make sense of that number. It is not the length, it's too big for that. Maybe it's the total length of that waterway and all connected waterways? It also does not change when I travel along that waterway.

My example is the river Neckar close to Heidelberg in Germany. The number there is:2595963 km

In reality the length of each river is measured from it's estuary. For bigger waterways in Germany you see a sign every kilometer with a number. The number is the distance in kilometers to the estuary of that waterway.

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Post by londons_explore »

I was surprised at the rivers in the middle of the Sahara.

But upon zooming in on Google satellite view, I do see dry riverbeds in those places, and even the occasional tree along the route of the 'river', so I guess occasionally there must be a storm and those rivers become wet and flow.

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Post by londons_explore »

mock-possum wrote: post #57
s3krit wrote: post #48

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…

If you were to give take a broad guess at the cost of moving around like that, in terms of maintaining supplies and securing a place to stay when you’re not in the mood to move with the current, what would that come out to, say monthly?

There is a massive time Vs money tradeoff with boats.

You can do it for almost zero money (perhaps $100/month) if you put many hours per day into maintaining the boat yourself and making everything you need yourself.

Or you can pay for good gear and get all maintenance done by a professional and your canal boat will be costing more like $3000/month - and when you do that, it becomes a rich persons hobby.

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Post by swarnie »

londons_explore wrote: post #67

I was surprised at the rivers in the middle of the Sahara. But upon zooming in on Google satellite view, I do see dry riverbeds in those places, and even the occasional tree along the route of the 'river', so I guess occasionally there must be a storm and those rivers become wet and flow.

Similarly i was surprised to find its marked a river in my village i didn't know existed.

Turns out its the drainage ditch they dug to stop the new Barrett boxes from flooding.

I think the data may need some work....

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Post by mattpallissard »

s3krit wrote: post #48

I've been waiting for the day that HN would have something tangentially related to the English and Welsh canal system so I could gush about it. For those that don't know, we have around 2500 miles of (mostly) navigable canals around the UK. They were built during the industrial revolution prior to the invention of trains such that we could transport coal and other goods relatively quickly and without damage (consider…

I'm not a liveaboard but I live in an archipelago and have done my fair share of commercial fishing.

IMO: When the weather is nice, there is no better way to travel than by boat. If the weather is poor, there is no worse way to travel than by boat.

That said, while being stuck at anchor due to bad weather can be frustrating, there is something pleasant about laying next to the stove while you're being tossed about... Unless you're trying to sleep while you're listening to your anchor drag.

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