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Rivers

OS Open Rivers

Ordnance Survey open river network for Great Britain
Connected river network with names and flow direction

Rivers (Natural Earth) over Blue Marble (NASA GIBS)

Source: Ordnance Survey
Resolution: Generalised from OS MasterMap Water Network
Time span: Updated twice a year
Access type: Direct download (external)
Formats: GeoPackage, Shapefile, GML
Coverage: Great Britain
Provider: osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/Op…

curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/os-open-rivers/links.txt?bbox=-4.45,54.35,-2.45,56.35" \
  | xargs -n 1 curl -fLO

import requests

urls = requests.get("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/os-open-rivers/links.txt?bbox=-4.45,54.35,-2.45,56.35").text.split()
for url in urls:
    name = url.rsplit("/", 1)[-1]
    with requests.get(url, stream=True) as r, open(name, "wb") as f:
        for chunk in r.iter_content(1 << 20):
            f.write(chunk)

const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/os-open-rivers/links?bbox=-4.45,54.35,-2.45,56.35");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));

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