When I was working for the USGS I was tasked with making a stream tracer to help the national park service fight oil spills at mammoth cave. However I wasn’t al

When I was working for the USGS I was tasked with making a stream tracer to help the national park service fight oil spills at mammoth cave. However I wasn’t allowed to write any server code due to security issues so I wrote the whole algorithm in javascript. It would take about 1 min to parse all the geojson streams into what what I called a node array which contained all the nodes containing the info of where streams connect and which stream they either flow downwards or upwards into. I eventually learned how to use node.js to allow me to run the node processor on the computer and then to just load the output files into the algorithm to allow the website to bypass this processing. I made a big push to try and open source my algorithm (minus all the confidential data the project had), however the website doesn’t have all the fancy controls that I created for the real project as I was hired by another company fairly quickly once I started applying around with this and a d3.js choropleth under my belt as my 2 first professional projects. Tlbsoftware.github.io/StreamTracer.html GitHub.com/tlbsoftware/streamtracer