This is not isolated to any particular country or region either, it's been happening at an increased pace all around the globe, but much more frequently in places which are currently popular for Social Media visitation (Iceland, for example). There are countless instances waterfalls where rocks are being marked with graffiti, moss and plants being trampled into muddy pulp around the base of waterfalls thanks to surges of visitors, inconsiderate visitors leaving piles of trash or feces, bonfires being started illegally (and in some cases even whole trees being burned down), and camping where not allowed, and so forth. The impact of Social Media and its associated behaviors on some of these waterfalls is getting harder and harder to ignore or brush aside. Long story short, too many waterfalls are being loved to death. In addition to the changes to the maps, it's also become apparent that some changes to the content on this website are necessary. This is just a band-aid solution to a longer term problem, and eventually the maps will (hopefully) be fully interactive and show the markers again. Coordinates are still provided for easy searching. The interactive maps used for browsing State data will remain unchanged (again, for now), but the maps on the Waterfall pages have been reverted to the standard Google Maps embedded window instead - there won't be markers showing exactly where the waterfalls are, but they will at least be interactive again. Latest News Map and Access Revisions July 04, 2018Īfter evaluating the usage of the Google Maps widgets used throughout the website over the last month and a half, it became apparent that it won't be possible to continue using custom maps everywhere they were previously used.