I can assure you that "Jack The Horse Lake" in Northern MN absolutely reflects whatever you think that name implies.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jack+the+Horse+Lake/@47.61...
Do Lake Names Reflect Their Properties?
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#22I'm sorry, but I can't help myself with this one... https://youtu.be/dalNQF8NmIs?si=lHyKeTiCLDFczZk6
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#23Obviously this is just for fun, but I am a bit disturbed about similar projects that try to gain some meaningful insights out of vast public data sets without the slightest attention paid to the quality of the data used. It doesn’t matter how much processing you do or how clever your algorithms are if the underlaying data is inaccurate, out of date, inconsistent, non-normalized, incomplete, etc. No dataset is perfect, but at least take some time to address it.
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#24How else would you name a lake?
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#25How else would you name a lake?
After the person who discovered and/or mapped it.
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#26When I was learning SCUBA, one of our sessions happened in Tea Lake (learning how to do an emergency swim ascent). I can vouch for its name accurately representing its properties.
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#27I went to Lake Superior and it was soooo cold to me.
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#28The color of a lake in satellite view depends on the satellite's viewing angle (which depends on the satellite's trajectory and the lake's location), the angle of the sun (which depends on the same things plus the time and date the image was taken), the weather, the satellite's sensors (false color is a thing), and how the images are processed before publishing. Overall I think it's almost impossible to estimate the…
Yeah I stopped taking this post seriously when I read this sentence: > I fetched the satellite image tile for the zoomed-in region of each lake center and read a single pixel at the center of the tile, which should give us an idea of the lake’s color
Well, I mean, it's an idea.
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#29Some lakes undergo drastic changes through the seasons. I know of a few that go from dark blue(late fall, early spring) to brown(spring runoff sediment) to dark green(algae in summer) in a single year.
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#30We have a 'red lake' in Romania that is fairly recent (river dammed by an earthquake in 1838). It looks just muddy to me. It may have been red when it formed due to water with iron oxides or something.