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The Vltava River and its riverine landscape has had a significant importance for the Czech nation, culture, economy and transport for centuries. The river itself, landscape and life of people tightly connected with Vltava have undergone massive changes which can be revealed from the old maps, historical photographs, archival documents and also personal testimonies. The main aim of the project is to show the vanished face of the river depicted on the beautiful old maps and photographs via modern cartographic method...

The objective of the study is to visualize the Vltava River valley in the area of Kamyk nad Vltavou. The workflow involves the georeferencing and vectorization of map data in ArcMap. Based on this processing, 3D objects are procedurally modelled in the CityEngine programme. The resulting 3D objects are complemented with a photogrammetrically created model of the Kamyk Reservoir. The results are presented in the form of map applications. This study aims to present the workflows already used in the project and the p...

As a part of the Czech Historical Atlas project, the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague prepare a printed atlas devoted to the history of the former Czechoslovakia in the 20th century. The atlas is now in the process of creating and reviewing individual maps. This paper deals with the thematic division of the atlas, the use of individual cartographic methods and important notes on the creation of his...

The paper deals with the creation of historical maps in the environment of geographic information systems on example of prepared historical atlas with an interim title Czech Historical Atlas. At the information age, efforts are being made to move cartographic products into the electronic Internet environment, large atlas works not excluding. The Czech Historical Atlas is a new piece of historical atlas cartography devoted to selected themes of the history of Czech Lands in the twentieth century and was, in accorda...