Sebuah Peta timbul atau Model permukaan adalah representasi tiga dimensi dari (biasanya) suatu medan yang berwujud sebagai artefak fisik. Saat mewakili medan, matra vertikal biasanya dilebihkan oleh faktor antara lima sampai sepuluh kali lipat, agar lebih cepat mengenali medan yang dimaksud secara visual.
Referensi
de Crespigny, Rafe. (2007). A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. ISBN90-04-15605-4.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, Anne Walthall, James B. Palais (2006). East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN0-618-13384-4.
Needham, Joseph. (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd.
Sivin, Nathan (1995). Science in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections. Brookfield, Vermont: VARIORUM, Ashgate Publishing.
Participatory Avenues a web site dedicated to the participatory manufacture of raised relief models in the context of participatory planning, development and advocacy
Adding the Third Dimension, an article (PDF 744KB) that describes ways of creating maps that "effectively present the third dimension."