Kolektiv pracovníků oddělení hospodářského zeměpisu Ekonomického ústavu ČSAV a katedry hospodářského zeměpisu Vysoké školy ekonomické v Praze · 1959
This article is a set of editorial comments proposing the conception and content of the second edition of the National Atlas of Czechoslovakia — the linked Atlas of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic — responding to J. Hromádka's outline. The authors argue the atlas should present the spatial results of socialist construction within an international frame, organized in five parts (world position; natural conditions as a basis for the economy; population and settlement; geography of production; living standards and external economic relations) in roughly sixty sheets. They assign production geography more than a third of the sheets and industry about a quarter, reject descriptive landscape chorology, and restrict historical maps to explaining present conditions, mainly by comparison from 1945, coordinated with the historical atlas then in preparation. Methodologically they recommend a common base, chosen scales, internationally comparable techniques and indicators, and cautious superimposition of related phenomena, with detailed schemes for industry, agriculture, forestry, transport and communications, settlement and migration, education, culture, health, housing, retail and services, economic regions, living standards and foreign trade. They conclude that a textual supplement should document sources and compilation methods and that a compact but representative editorial board should synthesize discussion and coordinate the participating institutions.
Miroslav Blažek · 1960
This compilation account describes plans for the new Czechoslovak national atlas, then expected to be ready for publication around 1965: 80 plates and approximately 200 maps, organized into seven sections covering introductory material, physical geography, population and settlements, production, living standards, regions, and international connections. Ten plates were allocated to industry. The account explains the decision to give living standards a separate section after production, which the compilers regarded as its economic prerequisite.
For industrial mapping, the compilers proposed geographical units defined by connected built-up areas and shared economic functions, using occupational structure as an indicator and adjusting municipal boundaries where necessary. Large agglomerations would also receive internal mapping. The account emphasizes employment figures for comparing industrial branches within Czechoslovakia. To indicate selected economic relationships, it proposes river networks beneath chemical-industry maps, major population concentrations beneath engineering-industry maps, and supplementary diagrams of industrial organization and production links. These are presented as planned approaches; the compilers acknowledge the difficulty of representing such relationships satisfactorily at atlas scales.
Antonín Götz · 1964
The article reports on preparation of the National Atlas of the ČSSR, the Atlas of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Following the 1957 geographers' congress, an academy geographical commission coordinated the work; an editorial board appointed in November 1962 prepared the map list, model and project, which received academy approval. Compilation entered the state research programme and involved academy institutes, mapping authorities, universities and numerous specialist and administrative bodies, some of which conducted detailed surveys for the atlas. The planned detachable-sheet volume would contain more than 400 maps on 58 sheets, with explanatory text, Russian and English summaries and legends, and a geographical-name index. Its 86 × 50 cm sheets accommodate the whole country at 1:1,000,000; smaller national maps use scales through 1:6,000,000. The article explains the equal-area conic projection, sheet layouts and five sections: introduction, natural environment, population and settlements, national economy, and living standards. A proposed large-scale regional section was omitted for economy. International comparisons assess map area and the constraints of the country's shape. Comparing thematic coverage and crop maps with the 1935 atlas, the author argues that denser presentation enriches content without sacrificing readability. Detailed discussion covers municipality-level choropleths, district areas divided proportionally between urban and rural populations, coordinated value scales, proportional symbols and crop dots. It also explains limits to comparability when dot values differ between crops. The article closes with a sheet-by-sheet catalogue of themes and scales.
