A new national atlas of Sweden
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- GeoJournal
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- 18
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Sweden · Version 2
1990–2014Staffan Helmfrid reports on the planning, design and organisation of the new National Atlas of Sweden as of October 1988. Its predecessor, Atlas över Sverige, was produced in 1953–1971 and contained approximately 600 thematic maps. Structural changes, scientific advances and the exhaustion of its stock prompted renewed planning: a study group formed in 1984, a revised proposal followed in 1986, and Parliament approved SEK 40 million in April 1987 for ten years of production. The new atlas was planned as at least seventeen separately available volumes, ending with a condensed school atlas, with each volume issued in Swedish and English. Computer-based cartography and a national atlas database were intended to support revision; a personal-computer edition with classroom software was also envisaged. The design combined scientific standards with accessibility to secondary-school students. The National Land Survey, Statistics Sweden and the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography jointly directed the project, with the central editorial office at Stockholm University. Thematic editors and host institutions across Sweden would prepare manuscripts, a scientific council would review them, and the Land Survey’s Kiruna unit would undertake prepress production. Helmfrid credits regional policy with supporting the project while noting its demanding decentralised organisation. Nordic cooperation and the atlas’s educational ambitions also receive attention. In October 1988, the first four volumes were in manuscript preparation and the others at the synopsis stage; the first volume was scheduled for April 1990.
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