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TheMadMonk

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10. What you are looking at it a TOPOGRAPHICAL map.

Reply to ellenfl (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 3, 2013, 11:06 PM

Jul 2013

It's where water would flow if there were water to flow.

Clearly there's some sort of minimal slope thing happening, or the whole map would be solid blue with a scattering of high points. Obviously the everglades are flatter than that.

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Infographic: An Astounding Map of Every River in America [View all] n2doc Jun 2013 OP

what happened to south florida? eom ellenfl Jun 2013 #1

It's pretty much all Everglades swampland Zorro Jun 2013 #2

we have rivers of grass! it should be all blue. they don't even count the loxahatchee! ellenfl Jun 2013 #3

What you are looking at it a TOPOGRAPHICAL map. TheMadMonk Jul 2013 #10

Most rivers out west are bone dry Warpy Jun 2013 #4

Amusing story about that JayhawkSD Jul 2013 #6

It looks like parts of Texas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas are good places to stay away from. AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2013 #5

Drier than even the Mojave, in CA & NV. toby jo Jul 2013 #8

That is beautiful. oldandhappy Jul 2013 #7

I play around with vectors in Open Source Inkscape. That must have take so much work to make. pam4water Jul 2013 #9