Downloads USGS river and waterbody data for a given extent, processes that data, and makes a map of the rivers where the width of the river is proportional to the area of land it drains.
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| .gitignore | ||
| 01_download_data.R | ||
| 02_process_data.R | ||
| 03_make_figures.R | ||
| extent.csv | ||
| extent_olympic.csv | ||
| extent_wa.csv | ||
| extent_wi.csv | ||
| LICENSE | ||
| pretty_rivers.Rproj | ||
| 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 :
- Clone the repository
- 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). - Run the scripts:
01_download_data.R- This will take the longest. The whole of Wisconsin downloads ~12GB of data02_process_data.R03_make_figures.R
Example figure
