<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The authors present a comparative analysis of presentation of build-up areas with conventional symbols on 60 civil European topographic maps. The above-mentioned maps are in different scales, from 1:10,000 to 1:100,000, and have been published in nineteen European countries and the autonomous community of Catalonia. The analysis has proved that the scope of characteristics of build-up areas presented on the analysed maps was very diverse, from qualitative and quantitative point of view (e.g. there were between 2 and 25 different categories on 1:10,000 maps). The 1:10,000 and 1:50,000 maps generally contain more information on the characteristics of build-up areas than 1:25,000 maps. The characteristics themselves are also very diversified (e.g. only 6 of them appear on more than half of the analysed maps – most often churches).</p><p>Polish maps stand out due to the fact that they contain particularly rich and consistent representation of both physiognomic characteristics and general functional characteristics of buildings and build-up areas at all the analysed scales.</p></abstract>

The authors present a comparative analysis of presentation of build-up areas with conventional symbols on 60 civil European topographic maps. The above-mentioned maps are in different scales, from 1:10,000 to 1:100,000, and have been published in nineteen European countries and the autonomous community of Catalonia. The analysis has proved that the scope of characteristics of build-up areas presented on the analysed maps was very diverse, from qualitative and quantitative point of view (e.g. there were between 2 and 25 different categories on 1:10,000 maps). The 1:10,000 and 1:50,000 maps generally contain more information on the characteristics of build-up areas than 1:25,000 maps. The characteristics themselves are also very diversified (e.g. only 6 of them appear on more than half of the analysed maps – most often churches).Polish maps stand out due to the fact that they contain particularly rich and consistent representation of both physiognomic characteristics and general functional characteristics of buildings and build-up areas at all the analysed scales.

Presentation of build-up areas on topographic maps of selected European countries

Institute Geodesy and Cartography, Department of Geoinformation and Cartography

Polish Cartographical Review

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

The authors present a comparative analysis of presentation of build-up areas with conventional symbols on 60 civil European topographic maps. The...

Presentation of build-up areas on topographic maps of selected European countries

Published Online: Aug 21, 2019

Page range: 5 - 18

Received: Jan 10, 2019

Accepted: Mar 04, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2019-0001

Keywords
topographic maps, build-up areas, European topographic maps, comparative analysis

© 2019 Wiesław Ostrowski et al., published by Sciendo

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

Presentation of build-up areas on topographic maps of selected European countries

Published Online: Aug 21, 2019

Page range: 5 - 18

Received: Jan 10, 2019

Accepted: Mar 04, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2019-0001

Keywordstopographic maps, build-up areas, European topographic maps, comparative analysis

© 2019 Wiesław Ostrowski et al., published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
topographic maps, build-up areas, European topographic maps, comparative analysis