La Commission des atlas nationaux de l’Union géographique internationale

Summary

O. Tulippe’s 1959 report reviews the IGU National Atlases Commission, created at Rio in 1956, and its first plenary meeting in Moscow and Leningrad, 11–20 August 1958. After twenty papers on existing atlases and cartographic techniques, the Commission proposed greater international standardization, a monograph and bibliography, advisory missions, a Moscow secretariat, and an atlas exhibition and report for Stockholm in 1960. Tulippe also compared atlas scope, texts, languages, formats, and approaches to updating rapidly changing economic maps.