[OSGeo Africa] Afrikaans translation for DEM

[Frank Sokolic]

Thanks everyone for the input. I'll go with digitale elevasiemodel, 
which means I can still call it a DEM.

Regards, Frank.

On 16/03/2014 09:12, Hanlie Pretorius wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
>>From the language list I received the following:
>
> According to the surveying dictionary 'hoogte' means height above
> ground, while 'elevasie' means height above  sea level.
>
> So 'elevasie' is the more correct term and in Afrikaans we don't use
> the capitalisation.
>
> Cheers
> Hanlie
>
> 2014-03-14 15:07 GMT+02:00, Frank Sokolic <sokolic at worldonline.co.za>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a good Afrikaans translation for Digital Elevation
>> Model? Would something like Digitale Hoogtemodel be correct?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Frank Sokolic.
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