hachuring

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hachuring

A method of representing relief on a map or chart by shading in short disconnected lines drawn in the direction of the steepest slope.

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The hachuring attracted the eye more than the shapes that had generated them.

The Fetish of Art in the Twentieth Century

Official maps, published by the Department of Lands and Survey (DL&S), were limited to cadastral mapping supplemented by indications of the bush cover and the terrain by variations of hachuring.

A short history of the mapping of New Zealand's national parks

This map principally showed relief, drainage, features and some of the main pastoral stations and is extraordinary because of the large amount of hachuring and shading used to depict the terrain found in the known-parts of the new colony (Figure 1).

15) The third map covered the new pastoral district of Kennedy and again hachuring was used widely to show relief.

Mapping a new colony: the geographical construction of Queensland 1860-1880

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