Tim,
Perhaps not so odd. I vaguely remember something about topo data being projected
onto a plane and DEM data following the curve of the earth. There are also a
couple of standards for representation of DEM data which differ. Maybe someone
who really knows will enlighten us.
Regards, Bill P.
> > oddly, the topographic map doesn't match up with the> DEM and has to be extensively compensated for distortion
