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Surface map

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A in mathematics, geology, and cartography, a Surface Map is a two dimensional perspective representation of three dimentional surface.

Surface maps usually represent real-world objects such as landforms or the surfaces of objects. That can, however, serve as an abstraction of data where in the third, or even all of the dimensions correspond to non-spatial data values.