Modern computer technologies in the development of cartographic work’s design

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the possibility of usage of multimedia technologies in cartography and to produce technological steps for map creation. The following thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to the history of cartography, its development through the centuries and the informational technologies’ impact on cartographers and their tools. The chapter gives a direct timeline of map evolution from the pre-historical times to nowadays. The second part describes types of multimedia cartographic works, their classification according to specific parameters. This chapter brings up the problem of understanding the map’s types in the 21st century and provides theoretical and practical examples to solve it. In the third chapter, the cartography semiotics and color are presented. These show how the map’s symbols and color can affect new cartographical samples and describe the strategies of multimedia map’s establishment. In the fourth part, the thesis draws on the problem of web-cartography copyright and the impact of multimedia tools on the user. Stages of creation and usage of multimedia cartography, as well as possibilities of using animation, are also shown in this chapter. The fifth part demonstrates how the author of this dissertation applies all the investigated and developed method of multimedia map creation on her own project. This chapter shows the problems, that were evoked by the lack of similar project on the market and how the author solved them. The final part of the thesis sums up all the researched data and brings it up in a new cartographical project.