pretty_rivers/README.md

pretty_rivers

Downloads USGS data for a given location and makes a pretty map of the rivers. The width of the rivers is proportional to the area of land that the section of river drains.

To run :

1. Clone the repository
2. Edit the extent of the map you want to produce in extent.csv. Include lat/long coordinates of two opposite corners (i.e. top-left and bottom-right).
3. Run the scripts:

• 01_download_data.R
• 02_process_data.R
• 03_make_figures.R). Downloading the data and loading the data will take the longest. The whole of Wisconsin downloads ~12GB of data

Example figure