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English: Automatically generated series of street maps depicting Alberta urban communities. Municipal boundaries: AltaLIS open data accessed May 25, 2019. Road network: Statistics Canada NRN 2018.
The name "Medicine Hat" is an English interpretation of Saamis (SA-MUS) – the Blackfoot word for the eagle tail feather headdress worn by medicine men. [14] Several legends are associated with the name of a mythical mer-man river serpent named Soy-yee-daa-bee – the Creator – who appeared to a hunter and instructed him to sacrifice his wife to get mystical powers which were manifested in ...
Inline elevations in feet [b] [c] [d] can use wikitext like "an elevation of {{convert|292|ft|0}}" to display "an elevation of 292 feet (89 m)."; Precise inline elevations in meters (such as those from a National Geodetic Survey data sheet) should use wikitext like "an elevation of {{convert|4401.2|m|0|order=flip}}" to display "an elevation of 14,440 feet (4,401.2 m)."
Southern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta.In 2016, the region's population was approximately 291,112. [1] The primary cities are Lethbridge and Medicine Hat.
NGVD29 was superseded by the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 , [3] based upon reference to a single benchmark (referenced to the new International Great Lakes Datum of 1985 local mean sea level height value), although many cities and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers "legacy" projects with established data continued to use the older datum. [4]
Medicine Hat Airport (IATA: YXH, ICAO: CYXH) is located 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southwest of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. WestJet Encore services the airport daily from Calgary . During World War II the site was used as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP).
The term is generally applied to any item used to mark a point as an elevation reference. Frequently, bronze or aluminum disks are set in stone or concrete, or on rods driven deeply into the earth to provide a stable elevation point. If an elevation is marked on a map, but there is no physical mark on the ground, it is a spot height.
Comparison of several types of graphical projection, including elevation and plan views. To render each such picture, a ray of sight (also called a projection line, projection ray or line of sight) towards the object is chosen, which determines on the object various points of interest (for instance, the points that are visible when looking at the object along the ray of sight); those points of ...