Planning of the Yugoslav and Slovenian national atlas
Načrtovanje jugoslovanskega in slovenskega nacionalnega atlasa
- Publication
- Geografski Vestnik
- Volume
- 39
- Pages
- 143-165
Yugoslavia
1962In his account of planning a Yugoslav and a Slovenian national atlas, Ivan Gams records that the Geografski atlas Jugoslavije (Znanje, Zagreb; he gives 1961) is cited as a national atlas by some publications, including the book National and Regional Atlases and the Atlas of Great Britain. He disputes this: the volume holds 52 thematic maps of Yugoslavia at 1:6,000,000 and six maps of the Adriatic Sea, and its 14.5 × 21.5 cm format and map scales show it to be a school atlas. Its statistics, drawn largely from 1953 with only a little from 1960, were in his view already out of date. The remainder of the article concerns the planned atlases, not this published one.
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The opening section mentions some distinctive features of national and regional atlases in European countries. This is followed by a description of the work on planning the Yugoslav national atlas, carried out by the Geographical Institute of the University of Ljubljana in 1966. Geographers and other specialists from all the national cultural centres in Yugoslavia participated in the planning. The planned atlas, measuring 50 × 70 cm, is to contain 97 pages with 187 maps. A final decision to begin work on the atlas has not yet been taken. The same institute has also planned an atlas of Slovenia. In connection with Slovenia’s regional plan, there is hope that work on the atlas can begin.
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