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feature displacement
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[map design, cartography]
In cartography, the process of arranging features that may otherwise overlap. For example, if a river, a road, and a railway run through a narrow valley, it is necessary, at some scales, to displace at least one of the features that represent them on a map to keep the symbols distinct.