I posted this map already yesterday, but I messed up some of the rivers so here’s a better revised version (I removed the earlier post). FWIW the old version can be found here.
The inspiration for this map came from u/robbibt ‘s map of European rivers and streams. I did a map of my home country Finland and decided on adding lakes as well since Finland is known for having a few of those. The rivers are weighted by their so-called Strahler number, larger rivers being naturally thicker. However, it’s worth noting that the rivers in my map can appear larger or smaller than in real life since the data used doesn’t really tell the actual width of each river and stream.
You can see the direction the ice moved over Finland during the last ice age. Also you can see the edge of the ice fields towards thw end of the ice age, down south where the lakes and rivers form a sort of a curve.
![image showing Lakes, rivers and streams in Finland (revised) [OC]](5eb4b902-1dff-5049-b43e-4e605bdef6da.jpg)
NaytaData on September 15th, 2018 at 08:12 UTC »
Tools: QGIS
Source: European Environment Agency
I posted this map already yesterday, but I messed up some of the rivers so here’s a better revised version (I removed the earlier post). FWIW the old version can be found here.
The inspiration for this map came from u/robbibt ‘s map of European rivers and streams. I did a map of my home country Finland and decided on adding lakes as well since Finland is known for having a few of those. The rivers are weighted by their so-called Strahler number, larger rivers being naturally thicker. However, it’s worth noting that the rivers in my map can appear larger or smaller than in real life since the data used doesn’t really tell the actual width of each river and stream.
A x3 larger version can be found here
ruderascal on September 15th, 2018 at 10:27 UTC »
Am I the only one to see a deer here?
TonninStiflat on September 15th, 2018 at 10:54 UTC »
You can see the direction the ice moved over Finland during the last ice age. Also you can see the edge of the ice fields towards thw end of the ice age, down south where the lakes and rivers form a sort of a curve.