Vertical exaggeration
![A vertically exaggerated mountain. In reality, the terrain would appear much flatter.](/Images/godic/202502/19/WW_mountbaker2601.png")
Vertical exaggeration (VE) is a scale that is used in raised-relief maps, plans and technical drawings (cross section perspectives), in order to emphasize vertical features, which might be too small to identify relative to the horizontal scale.
The vertical exaggeration is given by