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单词 Shaded Relief
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Shaded Relief

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Terrain cartography

(重定向自Shaded Relief)
USGS topographic map of Stowe, Vermont with contour lines at 20-foot intervals
From a 1639 map of Hispaniola by Joan Vinckenboons, showing use of hill profiles
Dufour map of Bern (1907); this is a shaded hachure map.
Siegfried map of Bernina Pass (1877) with black, blue and brown contour lines at 30-meter intervals

Terrain or relief is an essential aspect of physical geography, and as such its portrayal presents a central problem in cartography, and more recently GIS and geovisualization.

The most obvious way to depict relief is to imitate it at scale, as in molded or sculpted solid terrain models and molded-plastic raised-relief maps. Because of the disparity between the horizontal and vertical scales of maps, raised relief is typically exaggerated.

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