Albinas Pilipaitis; Giedrė Beconytė · 2002
Pilipaitis and Beconytė describe the Lithuanian National Atlas as planned in 2002. They advocate an integrated information system linking data, processes and participants throughout compilation and subsequent updating. The editorial principles combine natural and social themes, geography and history, regional context and cartographic communication quality. Proposed innovations include modular thematic sheets with self-contained texts, a 47 × 55 cm unfolded format accommodating Lithuania at 1:1,000,000, a separate section placing Lithuania in its global and European political-economic and natural settings, expanded landscape coverage, and regionalization and regional-development mapping. The historical section would cover periods before the nineteenth century and the nineteenth–twentieth centuries, each organized into political, social-cultural and economic history. The planned four parts comprised Lithuania in the world and Europe (10 sheets), nature and landscape (38), society and economy (36), and history (up to 40). These are project proposals, not a description of the final published volumes.
Algimantas Česnulevičius; Loreta Šutinienė; Vigilija Krikščiūninė; Rima Svilienė; Neringa Mačiulevičiūtė-Turiene; Artūras Bautrėnas; Giedrė Beconytė; Donatas Ovodas; Linas Bevainis · 2019
National atlases provide comprehensive information about nature, population, social and economic situation of the country. In 2017 the process of compiling and publishing the National Atlas of Lithuania (Lietuvos Nationalinis Atlasas) was finished. The goal of the authors is: in the context of the whole National Atlas to present a thorough analysis of the structure of content and cartographic visualization methods of Volume III. This volume focusses on social and economic phenomena in Lithuania. The authors discuss the principles of compiling the whole National Atlas of Lithuania and presents its structure in a concise manner. Following the classification of traditional mapping methods, specific examples of mapping in Volume III are presented, advantages of mapping techniques are discussed and the structural analysis of mapping methods is also conducted. The conclusions and the discussion part present the problems encountered while compiling Volume III as well as solutions to them.
