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| | US GeoData Digital Elevation Models, Fact Sheet 040-00 (April 2000) |
 | | Elevation values for the continental United States and Alaska are in reference to the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29), with values for the islands of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam referenced to local mean sea level. |
 | | Similar digital elevation data, arranged not by quadrangles but as a huge, single, seamless file, are known as National Elevation Data, or NED, and are treated in a separate fact sheet available at erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs14899.html. |
 | | Vertical elevations are in decimal and whole units of meters and feet except for the 1-degree DEM, which is distributed in whole meters only. |
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