<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Nowadays a lot of people are trying to make maps, and especially digital maps. A wide range of computer tools and high graphic capabilities have together made maps increasingly popular and seemingly easy to prepare for any person who can use a computer. It seems necessary to verify the bases of the cartographic presentation methods. There is a need for a new, formalized view of the method as a sequence of steps from data collection, to correct presentation, to map. Two terms related to cartographic presentation should be distinguished in this article: “methods” and “forms.” A method is understood as the process by which data is transformed into a presentation. A form is understood as the end result of this process, i.e. the resulting graphical image or map. In the article five types of cartographic presentation are indicated. In the successive types, one can observe an increasing degree of complexity of cartographic presentation.</p></abstract>

Nowadays a lot of people are trying to make maps, and especially digital maps. A wide range of computer tools and high graphic capabilities have together made maps increasingly popular and seemingly easy to prepare for any person who can use a computer. It seems necessary to verify the bases of the cartographic presentation methods. There is a need for a new, formalized view of the method as a sequence of steps from data collection, to correct presentation, to map. Two terms related to cartographic presentation should be distinguished in this article: “methods” and “forms.” A method is understood as the process by which data is transformed into a presentation. A form is understood as the end result of this process, i.e. the resulting graphical image or map. In the article five types of cartographic presentation are indicated. In the successive types, one can observe an increasing degree of complexity of cartographic presentation.

Cartographic presentation – from simple to complex map

Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing

Miscellanea Geographica

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Nowadays a lot of people are trying to make maps, and especially digital maps. A wide range of computer tools and high graphic capabilities have together made...

Cartographic presentation – from simple to complex map

Published Online: Jan 31, 2019

Page range: 16 - 22

Received: Mar 08, 2018

Accepted: Jul 19, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0023

Keywords
cartographic presentation, map, cartographic presentation methods, cartographic presentation forms, complexity of presentation

© 2019 Jolanta Korycka-Skorupa, Tomasz Nowacki, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Cartographic presentation – from simple to complex map

Published Online: Jan 31, 2019

Page range: 16 - 22

Received: Mar 08, 2018

Accepted: Jul 19, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0023

Keywordscartographic presentation, map, cartographic presentation methods, cartographic presentation forms, complexity of presentation

© 2019 Jolanta Korycka-Skorupa, Tomasz Nowacki, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
cartographic presentation, map, cartographic presentation methods, cartographic presentation forms, complexity of presentation