Gepgraphy Mapwork skills?

Question

hey

can anybody help me in teaching me how to calculate vertical exaggeration...

it would b a huge help, oh nd i will give points

Answer 1

Vertical Exaggeration is the amount of artificial vertical elevation given to a piece of land with a given horizontal distance. At an extremely small scale, a map showing a stretch starting in Astoria and proceeding due East to La Grande (given at the same scale vertically as well as horizontally) would show a landscape as flat as Kansas or at least the pancake. But experientially you know that this region is not flat. Normally a vertical exaggeration is placed in a map that allows for the vertical to show on the map but under controlled conditions. The formula for this is generally accepted to be:

VE = 2 Square Root MP ( I can't draw square root here).

VE = Vertical Exaggeration

MP = Miles per inch

Therefore, 1 mile = 1 inch is VE = 2 times (2 square root 1)

Therefore, 16 mile = 1 inch is VE = 8 times (2 square root 16)