River-runner Alternatives

river-runner reviews and mentions

• Collection of really good websites
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/Nepal | 12 Jun 2022

  Amazing articles -- http://worrydream.com/ how technology works -- https://ciechanow.ski/ Explore scale of the Universe -- https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html Find best sites on Internet -- https://cloudhiker.net/ Click on map to trace a drop of rain and where it will go to -- https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/ Track wind movement around the world -- https://www.windy.com/?27.714,85.314,4 Website of Nintendo people -- https://y-n10.com/ Everything about shoelaces -- https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ See satellite that is going to come near you -- https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/#

• Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jun 2022

  I love this:

  https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/

  Click on any spot on Earth and see where a raindrop there will flow until it reaches an ocean.

• Oilslick – an elevation map showing fine detail in terrain
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2022

  If you didn’t see it a few weeks ago this was submitted to HN:

  https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/

  “Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up”

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29841737

• Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2022

  Hey everyone, glad you all are enjoying the project!

  To address some of the points I'm seeing, it's not perfect right now, which is why we've considered this a beta release. In particular, there are some issues around name coverage abroad and around engineered features (dams, canals, etc.). A lot of known issues are documented at the top of this page: https://ksonda.github.io/global-river-runner/. Ultimately, we made as much progress as we could, including a lot of manual name suggestions before launching, and decided to publish the tool in beta, with an understanding that we'd take suggestions and otherwise work to improve the tool/data over time.

  To the points about the distance the paths are starting from a click, it does round coordinates to some extent. As much as I'd like to be more exact, we're stuck with a limited number of "flowlines" in our dataset and it will look for the closest one, which isn't always as close as we'd like. It's most useful for understanding watersheds in broad strokes, but often falls a little short when it comes to the novelty of literally tracing from your address.

  For both specificity and some of the canal issues, the US-only version of this tool is better than this one (https://river-runner.samlearner.com/) with the obvious limitation that the paths are only within the US.

  If you have any issues/feedback/suggestions regarding the UI and have a minute, would really appreciate if you're able to submit them as issues in the project repo on Github: https://github.com/sdl60660/river-runner If you're experiencing routing/naming issues, you can submit issues in this repo: https://github.com/ksonda/global-river-runner

  Again, thanks for giving the project a look! You can check out some of my other work here: https://www.samlearner.com/ or on my Github (https://github.com/sdl60660).

  I'd also like to shout out other other people who worked to make this happen: Dave Blodgett (https://github.com/dblodgett-usgs), Kyle Onda (https://github.com/ksonda), and Ben Webb (https://github.com/webb-ben).

  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2022

  Hey! So the solution I've got in place was actually kind of a compromise solution originally. I had it jump right in at first and people asked to disable autoplay, so I tried completely shutting it off and a lot of people missed that you could run the path altogether. Settled on this 5 second timer, but I think some kind of option to disable it is a good idea. I'll work on adding that in. If you'd like, you can submit it that or other suggestions as an issue here: https://github.com/sdl60660/river-runner

  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2022

  Seems about right, dropped a drop near me and it followed the path I expected.

  Quite a trip to the great australian bight from northern New south wales.

  https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/?lng=151.75636629...

  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2022

  Very nice tool! However, I think it is not always correct. For example, lake Trasimeno, in Italy, is endorheic (or maybe cryptorheic), but seems to discharge into river Arno from this website: https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/?lng=12.098864773....

  I am pretty sure that path is not possible: it seems that the water would flow out of Trasimeno through the Anguillara torrent, but according to the Italian Wikipedia the torrent flows into the Trasimeno (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anguillara_(torrente)). According to the English Wikipedia it might be that Trasimeno has an outflowing canal, but that should flow into river Tevere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Trasimeno), so their data is wrong anyway.

  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2022
• Hey Reddit. What is the coolest website you’ve visited that might not be known to everyone?
  4 projects | reddit.com/r/AskReddit | 7 Jan 2022
• Let's see who's the good guy now
  7 projects | reddit.com/r/dankmemes | 7 Sep 2021
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