River Mapping Tool
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Printed Date: 17 Sep 2025 at 8:55pm
Topic: River Mapping Tool
Posted By: mokelumnekid
Subject: River Mapping Tool
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2012 at 10:41pm
This was posted on Boater Talk today, re-posting here:
"I just happened onto this by accident today . . .
If you pull up maps.google.com, and get "Directions" (from
anywhere, to anywhere, like if you are going on a trip out-of-state) . .
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And then, if you put (into the google-search-bar) http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/state-summary/state/xx/.kml - http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/state-summary/state/xx/.kml
but replace the xx with the two-character abbreviation for any state
along your route, when you click the search-button (or press "Enter"),
your travel route stays onscreen, AND the rivers (as listed on AW) will
be indicated with colored dots, color-coded for runnable flows (where
gauges exist, anyway). And, you can click on a dot, then click on a link
to go to the river description.
Want to check out another state along your route? Change the
two-character abbreviation to another state, click the button (or press
"Enter"), and VOILA! you get the next state's rivers (and your route is
still visible)! If you see a river some distance off your route,
click+drag+drop on the route-line and Google will reroute to your
desired detour (to the river). Doing this will cause the AW river-dots
to disappear, but the url will still be in the Google-search bar, so you
can click the search button again to show them."
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Posted By: phil
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2012 at 11:44pm
Hey, that's cool. Very savvy of AW to provide KML.
Here's WA: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fwww.americanwhitewater.org%2Fcontent%2FRiver%2Fstate-summary%2Fstate%2Fwa%2F.kml&hl=en&ll=47.440164,-121.312408&spn=0.61675,1.454315&sll=47.618985,-122.304744&sspn=0.009604,0.022724&t=p&z=10&iwloc=lyrftr:kml:cj0qk7sUAqHGo3utP30aJI4fFlrYZJWo5IDS2GTpoGAk,gd746faf42e7047d7,47.378824,-121.260223,0,-32 - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:%2F%2Fwww.americanwhitewater.org%2Fcontent%2FRiver%2Fstate-summary%2Fstate%2Fwa%2F.kml&hl=en&ll=47.440164,-121.312408&spn=0.61675,1.454315&sll=47.618985,-122.304744&sspn=0.009604,0.022724&t=p&z=10&iwloc=lyrftr:kml:cj0qk7sUAqHGo3utP30aJI4fFlrYZJWo5IDS2GTpoGAk,gd746faf42e7047d7,47.378824,-121.260223,0,-32
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