Paper details
Virtual Map Collection Chartae-Antiquae.cz - Important Result of Project Cartographic Sources as Cultural Heritage
Author
Filip Antoš, Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography, v.v.i., Czech Republic
Co-authors
Milan Talich, Ondřej Böhm, Jan Havrlant, Klára Ambrožová and Lubomír Soukup, Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography, v.v.i.
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Abstract
Project Cartographic Sources as Cultural Heritage is focused mainly on development of new technologies for processing of old maps, plans, atlases and globes and their publishing on the internet. As a secondary outcome the project produces digital copies of maps, atlases and globes on which the new technologies are tested and tried. Cartographic works are by nature of their creation a specific information source based on geodetic surveys and cartographic projections. They carry spatial information about depicted objects. They allow to measure distances, azimuths, areas, determine lines of sight etc. We have to keep this in mind and carry out the digitization in such a way as to be able to keep these unique cartographic properties intact and utilize them by contemporary information technologies. The article will briefly introduce methods and devices suitable for accurate digitization of maps, atlases and globes. It will present recommendations for technologies for making the results of digitization accessible on the internet and for working with them in a web browser. It will demonstrate proposed concept on applications created in the course of the project. Some attention will be given to methods of precise digitization of globes and creation of their 3D virtual models for use in Google Earth and similar software. Early results of the project are already accessible to the public in virtual map collection Chartae-Antiquae.cz – the product of cooperation between VÚGTK, v.v.i. and several national and regional archives, libraries and museums. The collection comprises around 15 000 maps at the moment and is expected to hold circa 50 000 maps at the end of 2015.
Author's professional CV
Filip Antoš graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Geodesy and Cartography and currently is a PhD student in Geomatics at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He also works at the Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography, which deals with the issue of digitization and technology for access to old maps on the Internet. He is a member of the research team in the project Cartographic sources such as cultural heritage, which leads Digitisation Centre for scanning old maps, plans, atlases and maps.
