Brilliant Transit Style Map of North American Rivers

Map created by Daniel HuffmanThe map above is a very cool reimagining of North American rivers as a Tube style map. From the author:

This series of river maps is done up in a style inspired by urban transit maps such as those pioneered by Harry Beck in the 1930s for the London Underground.

Straight lines, 45-degree angles, simple geometry.

The result is more of an abstract network representation than you would find on most maps, and it’s not meant to be taken too seriously,  I would not recommend actually transiting through these rivers, as many portions of them are not navigable.

But they do, nonetheless, connect us.

If you’d like to know a bit more about how the maps were made, including the many many semi-arbitrary decisions that go in to them, click here.

You can purchase a print of the map above here.

He’s also created a much more detailed Atlas of North American Rivers you can find here.

And here’s another great map of US rivers by PythonMaps