Ján PRAVDA

O samostatnosti kartografie

Pravda, J.: About independence of cartography. Kartografické listy, 1994, 2, 9 refs.

Abstract: Efforts to consider cartography a part of geography perdure at least two thousand years. After the Second World War the efforts were demonstrated to consider cartography as part of geodesy. At the present moment in the environment of GIS’s, efforts have appeared to consider cartography a part of geo-informatics. Logic and structure of scientific knowledge contradict these efforts. Theoretical part of cartography is being emphasized as it proves independence of cartography as a scientific discipline. Lately in theoretical cartography large attention is given of the cartographical semiotics.

Keywords: cartography and geography, cartography and geodesy, cartography and geoinformatics, theoretical cartography