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It's all a matter of perspective - step 7

The tourist office – the village guide

Hint:

Here you will find all the information, but the box is not at reception. You have to look outside, where you don't always think to look.

Did you know?

The role of tourism is to open visitors' eyes. A good guide does not just show a place: they help visitors see it differently through maps and explanations. In fact, creating a map is a bit like betraying reality. To transform relief into a drawing, cartographers use contour lines: these are lines that connect points of equal altitude. They transform the third dimension (height) into a code that our eyes must reinterpret.

In other words, reading a map means seeing the world from a different perspective. The Vercorin Tourist Office preserves the memory of trails, legends and faces. It is a place of knowledge and curiosity, a crossroads of viewpoints. Just like the village itself.

Question:

What does a cartographer do to represent mountains on a flat surface?

A)      He draws the mountains larger.
B)      He copies an aerial photograph and changes the colours.
C)      He flattens the relief so that everything fits on the sheet.
D)      He uses contour lines to show the height of the terrain.