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Dr. Denis Gabor most probably could not think of every usage of the hologram when he invented it, but he might had a strong feeling that he opened a new window for human being. History has shown that it was not only a scientific... more
Dr. Denis Gabor most probably could not think of every usage of the hologram when he invented it, but he might had a strong feeling that he opened a new window for human being. History has shown that it was not only a scientific discovery, but it also led to a new philosophical explanation of the universe. Although it has not been a century, the technology of the holography already passed the horizon of his vision. Countless inventions and applications on holography have had remarkable influence on our daily lives. We have been using holograms in many places such as security, entertainment, measurement, training and so on. Why wouldn"t we use it for our most essential need which was map? As cartographers we have been discussing this question for more than ten years. Finally, we could achieve to find a new way of presentation of cartographic productions. The restrictions of the conventional medium, the paper, have not obstructed the cartographers to manufacture more visual contents and cognitive products, by using the power of the computers which is unquestionable. The rise of Paper-Era is reaching the saturation point and has been limiting the artists, publishers and cartographers. In this article, we will discuss the usage of holography in a cartographic perspective; interrogate the advantages and disadvantages of the hologram as a hard copy medium, evaluate a prototype of holographic map which is produced by General Command of Mapping, Turkey and exposed by Hangyo International Corp., Korea Republic. Finally what we suggest the future of cartographic publishing.
Nowadays Spatial Databases are gaining more importance for being the base of National Information Systems which forces National Map Agencies to convert existing data structures that have been used only for map productions for many years... more
Nowadays Spatial Databases are gaining more importance for being the base of National Information Systems which forces National Map Agencies to convert existing data structures that have been used only for map productions for many years into Spatial Databases. Türkiye upgraded map production system framework from the cartographer-aided method to the computer aided way in early 1990s. The upgrade process was completed in 1999. Up to now, 2200 sheets of Cartographic Vector Maps were produced and plotted. In 2001, an automatic cartographic generalization project started to produce 1:100 000 scale cartographic vector maps. Therefore, a study on the existing data structure and data quality had to be done in order to establish infrastructure of the Generalization Project in General Command of Mapping (GCM) in Türkiye. In this paper, we try to explain, how GCM surmounted such an enterprise framework study and created a geodatabase, by using huge amount of tile-based cartographic vector data, covering almost half of Türkiye.