Scenarios for national atlas use

Summary

Scenarios for National Atlas use. This article focuses on national atlases as a synthesis of the spatial knowledge that characterize a country or a national territory. Study of national atlases can involve temporal geographical or thematic comparisons which are seen as a scientific methodology. Map use strategies for national atlases are also considered in the article. The analysis ends with "functionality required" based on Simon van Leeuwen's proposal (1996) based on eight functional classes of digital atlases: comparisons are made by zooming pairs of maps simultaneously.