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Finally Finished River System!

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After much procrastination and so many JOSM conflicts ITS DONE! (for now) I have uploaded my major rivers and the lake to OGF. I'm so satisfied to finally see something on my map! There is still a lot of refining to do, but at this point, I think that I should save the most detailed edits for when I'm building towns and cities along these rivers.  I detailed some of the process in Inkscape in my last post, but I'll briefly cover the rest here. I imported my SVG file into JOSM and scaled it to match the country, and placed it as well as I could. Next, I went literally river by river, connecting them to each other and to the ocean as needed. This revealed lots of odd elements from Inkscape, like overlapping loops, etc that had to be deleted or altered to make sense. It was really fun to be able to scale, rotate, and move each river into position. It's almost like playing in a sandbox, and so fun to imagine the topography as you place each river. At this point, I'