There are over 250,000 rivers in the U.S. , some subtly serene , others tremendously disruptive . But in this visualization you’re able to see them all — and the color show which direction their waters flow .
Created by Andrew Hill from Vizzuality , it uses data from theUS Geological Surveyand theCartoDB software program platform . surge out , the affair admittedly looks a little blurry — but , usefully , New Scientist has afully synergistic versionthat you could explore . Zoom in , and you ’ll mark how there are 18 decided color around the compass , which are used to visualize the counseling of flow of each river .
It ’s a neat step on fromthis visualisation of America ’s rivers , which just laid them out for us to see with no extra information squeezed into the viz . you could lead about how it was maceon GitHub . [ New Scientist , GitHub ]
https://gizmodo.com/all-the-rivers-in-the-us-look-like-veins-with-blue-bloo-513360844
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