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@seav@en.osm.town#30DayMapChallenge 
Day 
: #NorthAmerica 
I’ve been racking my brain to come up with a map for day 10 and then I stumbled on the fact that North America has a notable number of large lakes compared to the other continents.¹ So inspired by the 100 largest islands poster² that my friend David Garcia created, I did one with the largest 15 lakes of the continent.
Data from the 1:10m Natural Earth lakes.³
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_by_area
² https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-the-100-largest-islands-in-the-world
³ https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-physical-vectors/10m-lakes/
@seav I normally think of Lake Champlain as being very large but it doesn’t make this list.
@seav 1/ when #openhistoricalmap spun off the water ways/bodies import was a little sketchy. Two years ago I noticed when my work neared Lake George and Lake Champlain in upstate NY. These seemed like major omissions so I looked further and half of NY’s finger lakes weren’t showing …
@seav 2/ looked even further and Superior weren’t there. Two things turned out to be going on. Some (George, Champlain) just weren’t there, so I got public domain data from NHD.
@seav 3/ others (Huron, Superior) were there but in the old use coastline to fake big lakes mode, which didn’t work well with the new OHM vector renderer.
@seav 4/ took a few weeks but it’s much better now.