Thats beautiful… how long it took?
Well, that looks like QGIS’ random colors applied to http://hydrosheds.org/
So I fired up QGIS, extracted the region from eu_riv_15s.zip, realised those rivers came without a corresponding basin, extracted the region from eu_bas_15s_beta.zip, set the map background to black, set the rivers to render in white, set the rivers’ line width to correspond to their UP_CELLS attribute (best with an exponential scale via Size Assistant), put the basins on top, colored them randomly by BASIN_ID, set the layer rendering mode to Darken or Multiply and that was it.
I should open an Etsy store.
Yes, I realise that replicating things is easier than creating them. But seriously, this is just a map of features colored by category and all the credit should go to http://hydrosheds.org/
Update
But Hannes, that original has some gradients!
Ok, then set the rivers not to white but a grey and the basin layer rendering mode to Overlay instead of Darken.
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Update: Someone asked me for more details so I made a video. Because I did not filter the data to a smaller region I did not use a categorical style in this example (300,000 categories QGIS no likey) but simply a random assignment.
thanks you for explanation, honestly it’s cool
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Can you make a world map or QGIS dataset of watersheds above 100,000km^2 area?
When I load all the hydro watersheds it crashes Google Earth
Don’t need all the tributaries just the area, though main river would be coo
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You should be able to get an approximation of the areas by using alpha shapes in QGIS. I am not sure though, maybe the areas are also provided by the Hydrosheds project.