The potential of a national atlas as integral part of the spatial data infrastructure exemplified by the new Dutch national atlas
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- SDI Convergence. Research, Emerging Trends, and Critical Assessment
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- 9–20
Netherlands · Version 2
1984The authors describe the second edition of Atlas van Nederland, which they date to 1989–1995, as centred on the country’s inhabitants, selecting material on climate, geology and soils for its relevance to how people supported themselves. They cite maps of economic geology and gas-bearing strata as examples. The Atlas Bureau, transferred to the national mapping agency, retained ministry support during production; after completion, the ministry’s requirement that such projects become self-supporting led to its closure. Maps from this edition were subsequently made available online alongside those of the first edition, although the authors note that the scanned maps were becoming outdated.
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The recent developments around national spatial data infrastructures have stimulated interest to review and renew the national atlas concept. In a recent project a feasibility study and prototype implementation of an automatic visualisation of spatial data available through the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) have been executed in a systematic and cartographically accountable way to guarantee an up-to-date national atlas. The objective was to investigate how the national atlas could be organised as an integral part of the spatial data infrastructure. The atlas would benefit from an up-to-date data flow, and the SDI would benefit from integrated visual summaries of available spatial data and geoservices in well-designed comparable maps using the narrative characteristics of the atlas. As such the national atlas provides alternative interactive and dynamic access to the SDI.
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