Atlas information systems

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Atlas information systems

• Ferjan Ormeling

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Introduction

• Objective awareness of characteristics and
  contributions of paper and CD-atlases, on the
  brink of large-scale webatlas production
• Ferjan Ormeling

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http//cartography.geog.uu.nl/ormeling/index.html
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PhD students supervised
1989 Kraak 3D representation Bogaerts O
1992 Wang Expert system map design Muller O
1996 Bin Fuzzy overlay analysis OrmelKainz
1996 Hootsmans Fuzzy analysisvisual decision support OBurrough
2000 Van der Wel Uncertainty in RS land cover classification OrmelingMulder
2002 Ogao Exploratory visualizing Kraak O
200? Blok Animated mapping OKraak
200? Elzakker Map use protocols KraakO
200? Heere GIS for histor cadastre Ormeling
200? Aditya AtlAs as interface KraakO
200? Stani-Fert exonyms KretschmerO

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Course participants

• Mihalyi Balazs
• Nemeth Balinth
• Spitzer Tamas
• Guszlev Antal
• Lukacs Lilla
• Toth Tamas
• Kovacs Aniko
• Iras Krisztina
• Albert Gaspar
• Csipa Antal

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PhD Course Atlas Information systems proposed
contents

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• 25/9/2003 1. atlas structures and concepts
• 2. atlas reviews Zorgatlas, Atlas of Canada
• 3. biography of an atlas Bosatlas
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• 2/10/2003 1. level of atlas development
• 2. atlas information systems
• 3. atlas as gateway to national geospatial data
  infrastructure
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PhD Course Atlas Information systems proposed
contents

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• 9/10/2003 1. functionality of electronic
  atlases
• 2. Noordzee-atlas, Atlas of Victoria,
  webatlasses
• 3. atlas review essays
• 16/10/2003 1. atlas review essays continued
• 2. developing electronic atlases an update
• 3. what worthwhile atlas concepts to apply to
  the
• web?
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assignment

• assignment, to be completed and handed in October
  9 review an atlas, taking account of the
  structure and possibilities for use. Try to
  define why it is important and special in your
  atlas, and what special characteristics should be
  retained when this atlas would be published for
  another medium (paper or web). Read the foreword
  and introduction well, find out whether
  everything that was promised there has been made
  true.

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• 1. Atlas of Maryland 1977 (example of an American
  state atlas) can be taken home
• 2. Les villes Européennes (1989)(in French,
  atlas of West-European cities) can be taken
  home
• 3. Tropical Africa, atlas for rural development.
  1973
• 4. Wirtschaftsgeographischer Weltatlas 1978 (in
  german, economic world atlas) can be taken home
• 5. The New atlas of Israel 1995 (in Hebrew).
  Atlas for general public, schools, derived from
  national atlas. Must be compared to National
  atlas in Map library can be taken home
• 6. Atlas of economic development.1960
• 7. Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Band
  Verkehr und Kommunikation. CD. (in german). 2003
  Can taken home
• 8. Atlas of Kentucky 1998 (another example of an
  American state atlas). In Library (4208)
• 9. Atlante Touring. Part 1, Italia (1986) (in
  Italian). In Library
• 10.Atlas Ceskoslovenske Socialisticke Republiky.
  1966. library 11.Economic and Social Atlas of
  Greece. 1964. In library (2587)

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Central issue

• The idea of the course is, that we try to define
  what important aspects there are in paper and
  CD-ROM atlases that we should preserve in
  web-atlases.

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Information to be found on

• http//lazarus.elte.hu/hun/doktoran/fo.htm