Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
The concept of the organization and implementation of cartographic project
must be specified before the start of the process of map-making and should
determine all the steps and processes, including the responsibility of the individual
guarantors of the processing phase. With special emphasis it is needed to apply this
recommendation for atlas cartographic production.
Political aspect includes the impact of state information policy, for example in
the form of state data providing (charging data sets, distribution, update, etc.), as
well as government incentives and especially projects that are directly or indirectly
funded by the state (such as projects under the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic,
within which there have been realized many cartographic researches and carto-
graphic atlases).
Analysis of the political aspect and consultations with cartographic producers
has led to the following information: development of infrastructure for spatial
information in the Czech Republic is very closely related to the state information
policy and transnational activities; political aspect is understood from many per-
spectives, such as relations with the ruling political parties, influence of policy
decisions, legislative influences to the grant state policy, tax policy and others;
assessment of the political aspect is very difficult, there is given the large number of
different possible concepts with regard to the personality opinions of various
experts; producers marked as the most important factor in cartographic production
the grant policy of the Czech Republic, grant EU policy and providing of data by
the state. It is also needed to say, that due to the operation of the grant policy (and in
general funding from the state budget) could be realized many scientific carto-
graphic atlases in the Czech Republic.
Psychological aspect is a very important area which can affect other
non-technological aspects and it is mainly user related; it can affect users
opinion
on a particular presented phenomenon and it may equally influence the understand-
ing and perception of a geospace. The psychological aspect is a complex of specific
user aspects that are further investigated by using scientific research tools. It is an
area of subjective perception of cartographic products based on the color schemes,
map design and a map composition, cartographic methods and their application,
specific adaptation to user needs etc.
Within the psychological aspect much attention is paid to cognitive cartography
and researches, which use modern technologies. Knowledge of psychology pro-
vides to cartographers many important clues in the process of creating maps.
Psychological perception map is very closely related to the user aspects, the
difference is in the definition of scientific issues.
Analysis of the psychological aspect led to the following information: it is
appropriate to use advanced technology to evaluate the psychological perception
of cartographic works; it requires an interdisciplinary approach for the evaluation of
cartographic works through qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods.
Sociological aspect includes the influence of society on the process of carto-
graphic production. The society was tilted differently to the cartographic produc-
tion in different historical periods; nowadays cartography becomes a regular part of
life and regular part of professional and public education, which places additional
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