Hypsography Features


DATA CATEGORY ATTRIBUTE TYPE MAJOR CODE MINOR CODE DESCRIPTION
Hypsography Areas 020 0100 Void area
Lines 020 0200 Contour (index or intermediate)
0201 Carrying contour
0202 Supplementary contour
0203 Deleted (Continuation contour)
0204 Deleted (Amended contour)
0205 Bathymetric contour
0206* Depth curve
0207 Watershed divides
0208 deleted (Closure line)
0210 Supplementary bathymetric contour (new)
0299 Processing line (new)
Single-point 020 0300 Spot elevation, less than third order
0301 Deleted (Spot elevation, less than third order, not at ground level, and not on bridge.)
0302 Spot elevation, less than third order, on bridge
0303 Sounding
Descriptive 020 0600 Decimal fractions of 0.0 feet or meters
0601 Decimal fractions of 0.1 feet or meters
0602 Decimal fractions of 0.2 feet or meters
0603 Decimal fractions of 0.3 feet or meters
0604 Decimal fractions of 0.4 feet or meters
0605 Decimal fractions of 0.5 feet or meters
0606 Decimal fractions of 0.6 feet or meters
0607 Decimal fractions of 0.7 feet or meters
0608 Decimal fractions of 0.8 feet or meters
0609 Decimal fractions of 0.9 feet or meters
0610 Approximate
0611 Depression
0612 Glacier or snow field
0613 Underwater
0614 Deleted (Best estimate of contour elevation value)
0615 Deleted (Fill)
0616 Deleted (inside a depression)
Parameters 020 0000 Deleted (Photorevised features)
021 ---- Elevation, whole feet, greater than 9999
022 ---- Elevation, whole feet, 9999 or less
023 ---- Elevation, whole feet below datum
024 ---- Elevation, whole meters
025 ---- Elevation, whole meters below datum
026 00-- Deleted (Major category associated with a spot height, not at ground elevation.)
029 00-- Deleted (Coincident feature)

(*) Denotes a code which is no longer being used to encode features, but which may appear in loder files.


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