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Article In Journal |
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Electronic Atlases: Concepts, Characteristics, Methods of Design and Publishing, and Recent Development and Trends الأطالس الإلكترونية: المفاهيم، والخصائص وطرق التصميم والنشر، والتطورات، والاتجاهات الحديثة |
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Arabic |
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Atlases as one of the most important cartographic products produced and used for a long time as a mean of displaying and storing spatial information. During their history, atlases have achieved great fame as their types have varied and their methods of compiling and producing have evolved. As a result of changes and development in technology and information explosion, atlases as a cartographic product, have been affected by such changes especially as regards to cartography during the last two decades. While traditional atlases (in paper form) were dominant for decades, the trend today is towards producing and publishing different types in a digital form (electronic atlases) regardless of methods of compiling and publishing media. As an obvious example such changes, the production of the national Canadian atlas in its paper form has been stopped since the fifth edition, and replaced by the electronic form starting with the sixth edition which has been completed in 1993. Beside this national trend, there are also other commercial electronic atlases produced either as a stand alone, or as a part of encyclopedias or references. In addition, there are electronic atlases devoted to one theme as population atlas, roads atlas, climate atlas, an so on. The aim of this study is to discuss the fundamentals and concepts on which electronic atlases are based through exploring some electronic atlases aspects such as their types, demands, advantages and disadvantages, along with some examples. It also concentrates on methods of creating these atlases, software used, structuring and organizing their content, and their publishing media. In addition, the current trends in this area, along with the relationship between electronic atlases and geographic information systems and multimedia are also discussed. Finally, the importance of such theoretical study as a base for further applied and technical studies is affirmed. |
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1319-0989 |
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Arts and Humanities Journal |
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17 |
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1 |
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1430 AH
2009 AD |
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Article |
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Saturday, February 6, 2010 |
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Researchers
| محمد عوض العمري | Al-Amri, Mohammed Awad | Researcher | Doctorate | |
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