watersheds – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:07:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg watersheds – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 xkcd’s Dubious Islands Aren’t Technically Wrong https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/10/xkcds-dubious-islands-arent-technically-wrong/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:07:24 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1819327 Dubious Islands, an xkcd comic
Randall Munroe, “Dubious Islands,” xkcd, 6 Oct 2023.

When I saw the xkcd for October 6th, I said to myself: that can’t be right. But I checked and yes, Wollaston Lake and Isa Lake are bifurcation lakes, so it is.

]]> 1819327 The United Watershed States of America https://www.maproomblog.com/2013/11/the-united-watershed-states/ Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:12:55 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/2013/11/the-united-watershed-states/ More]]> United Watershed States of America 2

In 1879, surveyor (and future USGS director) John Wesley Powell proposed that the boundaries of future western states be determined by watersheds, in order to avoid water use conflicts. John Lavey takes this proposal to its logical conclusion, imagining a U.S. in which all 50 states follow watershed boundaries. Via io9.

Previously: Fifty Equal States Redux.

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