Mexico publishes its first national atlas.

Summary

This article reports on the compilation of Mexico's first national atlas. Produced by the Mexican National Bureau of Geography over a period of four years and seven months, the atlas comprises 224 pages and includes eleven groups of maps covering topography, relief, climate, geology, and land use, with a uniform scale and six-color printing. The article details the compilation methods, projection choices, feature representation, and color design of each map group, and briefly describes the US practice of publishing topographic maps in microfiche format, offering technical references for the field of cartography.