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The Making of Alaska

The Making of Alaska Some time ago, my father-in-lawI found that the USGS publishes some really cool US geographical data for free via their National Map Download ("TNM Download") tool at https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/basic .  Using this tool, you can select a geographical area on a map, then find and download elevation, boundary, hydrography, and many other types of data available for the selected area.  I downloaded boundary and elevation data for Arizona and, with much C# programming, generated a 3-D tile for the state. \[x=\rho\sin\left({\theta}\right)\] \[y=1.5616640-\rho\cos\left({\theta}\right)\]