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  2. Topographic map - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_map

    A topographic map of Stowe, Vermont with contour lines Part of the same map in a perspective shaded relief view illustrating how the contour lines follow the terrain Sheet #535 (2013 version; second digital edition) of MTN50 Spanish National Topographic map series, covering Algete town (near Madrid) and its surroundings.

  3. Terrain cartography - Wikipedia

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    Terrain cartography or relief mapping is the depiction of the shape of the surface of the Earth on a map, using one or more of several techniques that have been developed. Terrain or relief is an essential aspect of physical geography , and as such its portrayal presents a central problem in cartographic design , and more recently geographic ...

  4. Raised-relief map - Wikipedia

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    Hand-made raised-relief map of the High Tatras in scale 1: 50 000. A raised-relief map, terrain model or embossed map is a three-dimensional representation, usually of terrain, materialized as a physical artifact. When representing terrain, the vertical dimension is usually exaggerated by a factor between five and ten; this facilitates the ...

  5. Topography - Wikipedia

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    Relief map: Sierra Nevada Mountains, Spain 3D rendering of a DEM used for the topography of Mars The digital elevation model (DEM) is a raster -based digital dataset of the topography ( hypsometry and/or bathymetry ) of all or part of the Earth (or a telluric planet ).

  6. Topographic profile - Wikipedia

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    A topographic profile or topographic cut or elevation profile is a representation of the relief of the terrain that is obtained by cutting transversely the lines of a topographic map. Each contour line can be defined as a closed line joining relief points at equal height above sea level. [ 1 ]

  7. Terrain - Wikipedia

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    Terrain (from Latin: terra 'earth'), alternatively relief or topographical relief, is the dimension and shape of a given surface of land. In physical geography , terrain is the lay of the land. This is usually expressed in terms of the elevation , slope , and orientation of terrain features.

  8. Hachure map - Wikipedia

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    Hachures may be combined with other ways of representing relief, such as shades, the result being a shaded hachure map; an example of such a map is the Dufour Map of Switzerland. [2] Emil von Sydow designed maps with coloured hachures: green for lowlands and brown for highlands.

  9. Wikipedia : WikiProject Maps/Conventions/Topographic maps

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    Topographic maps, displaying an area's relief, de facto explain many other things such as human occupation, cultivated areas, kingdoms borders, exchanges ways, etc. If you create a topographic map, note that these colorimetric values are indicatives.

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