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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
True...but not really well-suited to the planetary-romance version of Mars, IMHO. For this purpose I'd go with the Lowell/Schiaparelli map. If you want canals, for ex, drawing water southward on Real Mars means that you're sending it uphill in most directions. That implies some serious pumping technology and strains WSOD in a 'decaying Mars' setting.
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Water would 'start' already uphill/south through the evaporation/precipitation cycle, and then drain down/northward through channels and aquifers (mostly below the resolution scale of the maps we're looking at here).