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Subject:	MAPS-L: Term for depth and relief together
From:	"Angie Cope, AGSL" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
Date:	Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:57:27 -0500
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Subject:        Re: MAPS-L: Term for depth and relief together
Date:   Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:39:02 GMT
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Why not a hypsobathy index?

Topography comes from the Greek "topos" meaning "place," and "graphein" meaning "to write."  So a topographic map describes the place.  (That's quite a bit more general than the Greek "hypsos" meaning "height," whence "hypsometric" and "hypsographic."

Joe McCollum
FIA
Knoxville, TN

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