Abstract

Scientific Map Production and Thematic Atlas Production
Track: Cartography and Map Production
Authors: Vit Vozenilek, Alena Vondrakova, Ales Vavra, Alzbeta Brychtova

Huge amount of geographic information stored in GIS resources provides a great potential to the creation of scientific thematic maps and atlases. GIS software provides enough strong analytical and visualization tools suitable to the whole process of the scientific map and atlas compilation. However, there are stages of the atlas creation, which are necessary to carry outside of GIS. The results of long-standing focus on atlas creation at the Palacký University in Olomouc led to the establishment og sophisticated scientific approaches for cartographic production. Four issues of scientific thematic maps and two elaborated atlases were realized. All atlases maximize the power of ESRI products and are positively accepted by professional community.