Unknown · 1959
This report records the Geography Committee of Morocco’s progress in publishing a second series of cartographic works for the Atlas du Maroc. Issued in 1958 were A. Metro’s explanatory notice for the forest map, an annual-precipitation plate, and a four-sheet plate on European rural holdings. Prepared at the Institut scientifique chérifien from H. Gaussen and G. Roux’s precipitation map, the rainfall plate presents annual means for 1925–1949, rainy days, dry months and the rainfall-observation network, with an accompanying notice. The rural-holdings plate follows a layout prepared by the Société française de cartographie under J. Gadille’s guidance; its northern zone draws on regional agricultural and land-service survey results collected by J. Le Coz. Its maps show European rural estates as of July 1955, holding areas and agricultural production, accompanied by Gadille’s notice. Further plates and notices on saline waters, maritime traffic, hydrography and hydrology are planned.
F. Joly · 1966
F. Joly describes the Atlas of Morocco as a national atlas being prepared and published by the Geography Committee of Morocco. Folio maps are accompanied by illustrated explanatory booklets of about ten to twelve pages; the principal maps use scales of 1:1,000,000 across four sheets or 1:2,000,000 on a single sheet. He reports an eleven-section plan covering physical, human, economic and regional geography. Published maps addressed precipitation, saline waters, forests, diseases, European-owned rural farms, livestock, cattle markets and railways; population, bioclimatic zones and mineral-deposit maps were still in preparation. This is an account of publication in progress, with no specific identification of the 1985 edition.
Unknown · 1966
This report describes the compilation and publication of the Atlas of Morocco. Published under the Moroccan Geographical Committee, the atlas is technically produced by the Physical Geography Laboratory of the Scientific Institute of Morocco, using materials supplied by public services and research institutes with specialist assistance. The general plan comprises 54 chapters in 11 sections. Colour plates have specialist explanatory notes and principally use scales of 1:1,000,000, 1:2,000,000 and 1:4,000,000; the 1:1,000,000 sheets are designed for assembly. Between 1954 and 1962, 12 plates and 11 notes appeared, covering railways, livestock, diseases, European agricultural properties, rainfall, forests, saline waters, mining and metallogenic distributions. Further plates planned for 1963 concern population distribution, administrative organization, bioclimatic stages, water use and hypsometry.
