These intra-watershed relationships are central to China's struggle to urbanize amidst
increasingly dire water shortages. These maps enable the viewer to see past the man-made divisions that commonly define national atlases and focus on a system key to addressing the country's - and
increasingly the region's - looming environmental problems.
Bash scripts
import data into PostgreSQL/PostGIS tables that feed into QGIS stylesheets. Adobe Illustrator was used to finalize layouts and make manual label adjustments. The project was presented at the 2015 meetings of both the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS). In 2016, the Yellow River Basin map was selected for inclusion in NACIS's bi-annual
Atlas of Design publication.