BaseCamp displays topographic map data in 2-D or 3-D on their computer screen, including contour lines and elevation profiles.

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The topographic map reveals that the ice cap is about 1, 200 kilometres across, with a maximum thickness of three kilometres.

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But most are held in wilderness areas and require competitors to find a series of checkpoints using only a compass, an altimeter and a topographic map.

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Using radar imagery collected from nine years of Cassini flybys, researchers were able to patch together the first global topographic map of Titan, published in the July 2013 issue of Icarus.

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This information is shown through charts, illustrations, reports and a variety of map representations including street, photo, topographic.

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