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  2. GIS file format - Wikipedia

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    USGS DEM – The USGS' Digital Elevation Model GTOPO30 – Large complete Earth elevation model at 30 arc seconds, delivered in the USGS DEM format; DTED – National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)'s Digital Terrain Elevation Data, the military standard for elevation data; World file – Georeferencing a raster image file (e.g. JPEG, BMP)

  3. Hypsometry - Wikipedia

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    Hypsometry (from Ancient Greek ὕψος (húpsos) 'height' and μέτρον (métron) 'measure') [1] [2] is the measurement of the elevation and depth of features of Earth's surface relative to mean sea level. [3] On Earth, the elevations can take on either positive or negative (below sea level) values.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Topographic map - Wikipedia

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    1913 saw the beginning of the International Map of the World initiative, which set out to map all of Earth's significant land areas at a scale of 1:1 million, on about one thousand sheets, each covering four degrees latitude by six or more degrees longitude. Excluding borders, each sheet was 44 cm high and (depending on latitude) up to 66 cm wide.

  6. Earth ellipsoid - Wikipedia

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    A data set which describes the global average of the Earth's surface curvature is called the mean Earth Ellipsoid. It refers to a theoretical coherence between the geographic latitude and the meridional curvature of the geoid. The latter is close to the mean sea level, and therefore an ideal Earth ellipsoid has the same volume as the geoid.

  7. Lists of extreme points - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Extremes on Earth; ... List of elevation extremes by region; List of highest towns by country;

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  9. Cartogram - Wikipedia

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    Later reviewers have called his figures a statistical diagram rather than a map, but Levasseur referred to it as a carte figurative, the common term then in use for any thematic map. He produced them as teaching aids, immediately recognizing the intuitive power of size as a visual variable: "It is impossible that the child is not struck by the ...