78 points by CharlesW 19 hours ago | | 11 comments

Astonishingly, Harold Fisk did this in 1944 without any LiDAR: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-of-the-lower-...

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my partner has taken to using Daniel Coe's methods [0] to make her own maps like these, we have a few on the wall in our house! They are very cool.

[0]: https://dancoecarto.com/tutorials

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Pass through link to the artists website:

https://dancoecarto.com/4k-rivers

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Which links to his Flikr where you can download a zip with all 90

https://www.flickr.com/photos/165735975@N07/sets/72177720300...

Since he seems to gravitate to meandering rivers, he could have done the Maeander river itself. Nice work though.

I was hoping to find the names of the rivers for each photo. It's on the Flickr pages linked [1][2] from the article and the artist's site.

[1] https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzXx4k

[2] https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzXx4f

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From the most biblically-named government department comes a biblical amount of data:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/

See the topo-bathy lidar datasets (or, turn on DEMs for in-browser viewing).

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It's like the river itself is exhibiting fluid dynamics on the macro scale as well as the micro scale. Fractalised fluid dynamics, you might say. Beautiful.

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You see where I am now and everywhere I've ever been. I cannot hide. I can only hope that the change inevitable in my system takes me somewhere interesting. - The River

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Seems to support Randall Carlson's remarks of under set rivers.

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looks nice, I could see them getting printed as a nice art piece

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