Atlases and Systems Theory within Systematic Cartography

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333183948" target="_blank" >https://obd.upol.cz/id_publ/333183948</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-386-2019" target="_blank" >10.5194/ica-abs-1-386-2019</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Atlases and Systems Theory within Systematic Cartography

Original language description

The paper considers three scientific approaches and outlines a new concept of systematic cartography. The first approach – systems theory. The second approach – atlases. The third approach – Tobler&apos;s first law of geography. Systematic cartography is a set of interrelated approaches for visualising a wide range of spatial data sources by various techniques. A traditional field of systematic geovizualisation is the atlas production. At present, advanced display techniques and distributed spatial data sources multiply the possibilities and range of visualization outputs. A theoretical systematic approach plays a crucial role for content, designing, compilation and symbology of any atlas. This calls for the implementation of system theory into an atlas conceptualisation. Can atlas be described as a system? If a system consists of elements and relationships between them, then an atlas consists of maps and relationships between them. As a system has a structure and behaviour, an atlas has a structure and usage. In the system theory, a system has a language (information is passed through the information channels). In systematic cartography, an atlas passes spatial information through map language. If we describe an atlas as a system we might measure atlas and then to improve it, redesign it, reuse it etc. If an atlas is a system according to the theory of systems (a system universum A involves maps, symbols, map elements, graphs, texts, etc. and a system characteristics R involves all relationships between them) it make us possible to measure „a rate of systematization“, and make atlas taxonomy better. It will also provide a view into an atlas structure and tools for its improving. And it is really worth! Maps in atlases are organized gradually (i) from simple analytical maps (of the main theme components), (ii) to the complex and synthetic maps, (iii) the content of the thematic atlas is arranged like a storybook, (iv) from simple to complex, (v) from basic information to the culmination as the main message in sense of spatial synthesis (typology and regionalization). The relationships relate to map language either in map series, in atlas structure and design and between maps vs. graphs, tables and figures.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-05432S" target="_blank" >GA18-05432S: Spatial synthesis based on advanced geocomputation methods</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Abstracts of the ICA

ISBN

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ISSN

2570-2106

e-ISSN

2570-2106

Number of pages

2

Pages from-to

46

Publisher name

Copernicus GmbH

Place of publication

Göttingen

Event location

Tokyo

Event date

Jul 15, 2019

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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