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relief map
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relief map
a map that shows the configuration and height of the land surface, usually by means of contours

relief map [ri′lēf ‚map]
(mapping)
A map of an area showing the topographic relief.


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The conference table is covered with reports and charts while the wails are adorned with relief maps he uses regularly to show where projects are taking place or are planned.
If students then are making relief maps, each needs to be thoroughly involved.
The lobby, filled with artworks by Richard Lippold and Josef Albers, seemed to be trying too hard to compensate for the structure's overall lack of interestingness; the same was true of Edward Larrabee Barnes and Charles Forberg's wonderfully evocative, Saarinen-like lobby design--all white swooping forms and low-slung furniture and sculptural relief maps.
 
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