Hi! I’ve made a map of Finland lakes and rivers. I’ve used data from Openstreetmap, filtering a bit on river length and lake size. Do you have any feedback?

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1. “One does not simply walk into Finland” – Stalin(probably)

2. I like it. I haven’t yet seen map where you only show lakes and rivers. It really shows how much water areas we have. Its of course obvious when one travels around Finland, but the map filtration gives totally different view to it.

   Good job.

3. It’s beautiful.

4. PS: I’ve shamelessly used google to add “lakes and rivers” at the bottom, any native speaker that can confirm I didn’t write anything obscene?

5. Pretty picture! Would look great as a print image or carved onto wood 🙂

   If you’re interested in delving deeper into Finnish lakes and rivers, SYKE (Finnish Environment Institute) provides plenty of free and open data for you.

   For maps, check out [https://ckan.ymparisto.fi/dataset?organization=syke-map-services](https://ckan.ymparisto.fi/dataset?organization=syke-map-services)
   From there you can go to (for example) to the ready to use ArcGIS datasets at [https://syke.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html](https://syke.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html)

   There’s a staggering amount of open data available on this subject, curated and maintained by professionals at SYKE & friends.

6. My only concern is that I can’t zoom in quite enough to find our lake 😉

   Looks cool!

7. I downloaded it for reference. EU is banning lead ammunition for hunters, you can not have any in your possession within 400 m of any wetland or comparable terrain. Doing a map like that would show where I could make my stash.

8. I like it, personal prefrence though: id like an outline of the borders.

9. Fact: most popular name for a lake is “paskalampi”, with variation “paskolampi”. Literally translates to “shit pond”. Only the tiniest and muddiest lakes are called paskalampi but we do have a lot of them, more than needed, if you want, you can borrow them for a while if you promise to return them in good condition?

10. Looking at the Swedish and Norwegian borders: why do the literal border rivers have empty spaces at some points?

11. I see my lake!

12. This is interesting! Could see that something is scaled up as you commented

13. Veins of the Maiden of Finland.

14. I love how this looks 😍

15. Looks good!

    I’d buy that as a print or painting.

16. I never knew there was that many rivers and lakes in the middle. Not that easy to spot them on a normal map.

17. Finland is awesome place🤟🏻

18. Awesome! Do you have a bigger version of this? I’ve been looking for a map like this for a while now!

19. Damn that’s a lot of water

20. I hate to do this to you all but, this looks like if someone took an x-ray of finland’s flesh and wanted to see where the blood veins where going.

    Basically a picture of finland’s blood veins.

    Very cool and very nice.

21. Finland has certainly been lacking a rivers map. At least according to my research.

22. so you already have a map that suits day 2 or day 18 of this year’s #30daymapchallenge: https://twitter.com/tjukanov/status/1576650170535936001

    only 29 maps to go 🙂

23. Makes me wonder how much of Finland’s surface is covered by water. I’m also guessing this doesn’t include swamps.

24. Just before the water wars started we went scouting for a place to call our own. For a while it was a haven. Then the others came.

25. To me it looks like a Doe rearing it’s head. I like it. Good work.

26. It gave me a hardon 👌

27. Perhana tähä o aika mintti

28. Thats at least 2 lakes and 3 rivers

29. great job！

30. White and blue national color of Finland!

31. 🤩🤩🤩