Plotting Dams (30 Day Map Challenge Day 1: Points) and a PyTopo Tweak (Shallow Thoughts)

Plotting Dams (30 Day Map Challenge Day 1: Points) and a PyTopo Tweak

The 30 Day Map Challenge started yesterday, and already I'm a day behind. (I'm not going to try to keep up; I'll be sporadic about challenge entries.) Day 1 was Points.

The website for the challenge has an interesting list of possible data sources, and clicking around them, I found one that looked like a good quickie: a Data is Plural entry that mentioned a dataset from the National Inventory of Dams that lists all dams in the US. That sounds like a useful thing to have.

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