How does your viewing point affect your point of view? Your view of a neighborhood is very different than a bird's or a pilot's view. You can see the fruit on the trees. Birds can see all the trees in the orchard. A pilot can see the whole neighborhood. What you see and believe about the world depends on how far you are from what you see, or the scale of your view. Scale is a tool for relating distances on-the-ground to corresponding distances on a printed map or an aerial photograph. Click on one of the buttons below. © 2000, Regents of the University of Minnesota and the Department of Forest Resources, College of Natural Resources, Twin Cities Campus. All rights reserved. For questions or comments about the site, email the TerraSIP Webmaster (applications@terrasip.gis.umn.edu). Site last updated on June 30, 2000.