Geography Reference
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of the fundamental theoretical problems, by definition, terminology and classifica-
tion issues (Murdych and Nov
´
k
1988
).
Generally aspects of map production represent influence and perspective, cov-
ering a wide area in the cartographic process and defending a large number of
specific steps of map-making (Vo
ˇ
en
´
lek
2004
). Their definition is always based on
the specific purpose of the analysis process of map creation. The various aspects of
map production include a range of influences affecting the cartographic production
and are also largely affected by regions (continents, countries).
Aspects of map production can be divided according to many various character-
istic, but the basic distribution is to technological and non-technological aspects.
The concept of technological aspects is quite often used in publications in various
fields of science and technology; however there is not any uniform definition.
Generally, technological aspects are described by the basic technical specifications
and workflows in various fields of human activity. They describes facilities, mate-
rials, structures, strategies, tools and their uses, methods and other issues dealing
with technical resources. In the context of the research, technological aspects are
regarded as the processes or elements for which the importance of technology
(technologies) prevails over the others. Restrictions on non-technological (some-
times also called as non-technical) aspects are composed primarily of a range of
knowledge and skills of professionals and people who are involved in the process of
cartographic production, not the possibilities of the technique used.
In the research there was created the following list of technological aspects of
map production and its subsequent detailed definition as a result of a detailed study
of Morrison (
1974
), Robinson et al. (
1995
), Kraak and Ormeling (
1996
), Ka
ˇ
ok
(
1992
), Reichenbacher (
2001
), Veverka (
2001
), Vo
ˇ
en
´
lek (
2004
), Pravda and
Kusendov
´
(
2007
) and others. Technological aspects of map production, defined
in the research, include: safety aspect, data aspect, geoinformatic aspect, hardware
aspect, mathematical aspect, mapping aspect, software aspect, standardization
aspect, visualization aspect and the aspect of technical production. It is possible
to include all these technological aspects of map production in the general division
stages of the map creation (Voˇen´lek
2004
).
Mentions dealing with non-technological aspects are usually used in technical
fields where technical nature specified and there is a reference to any other “non-
technological” or “non-technical” factors. Among those are usually classified
aspects of economic, organizational (or the organizational aspect is called as a
concept aspect), as well as aspects related to various issues in the field of human
resources. According to the scope are also mentioned aspects of the political,
historical and more. Non-technological aspects are described in detail below.
