Commission on National Atlases

Summary

Timothy Trainor’s report describes the National Atlas Commission’s working meeting in Stockholm and Kiruna, 11–15 March 1989. Sessions covered national mapping programmes, PC-based and electronic atlases, vector and raster data processing, geographic identification codes, and topological databases, with demonstrations of Swedish atlas production and Canada’s electronic atlas. The commission formed a core working group and outlined a technical report for Budapest, planned to compile national reports and papers on user needs, atlas information systems, electronic atlases, and atlas work in developing countries.