Literature: The 21st century world atlas

Summary

Richard Čapek reviews The 21st Century World Atlas (1998), praising its digital cartography, relief depiction, and organization as a geographical reference work. It contains 200 pages of world thematic maps, 430 pages covering continents and countries, and an index of 57,000 geographical names. The reviewer commends its satellite imagery and oblique relief views but notes uneven coverage of Europe and Australia and errors in Czech map labels. He identifies the country-level economic maps as its principal weakness: poor content selection and symbol design can misrepresent the relative economic importance of locations.