Modelling of thematic Digital atlas of the Boka Kotorska gulf within geographic information system

Abstract

This paper presents a possibility of creating and compilation of digital cartographic products of certain geographic area using modern cartographic approach along with the use of traditional cartographic methods and procedures within certain GIS software. Within the system of cartographic and GIS methods this paper presents analogue-digital conversion of cartographic data, defining and control of mathematical elements of atlas maps, processing and generating of geographic atlas content of the Gulf. In this paper multifunctionality and different aspects of using obtained digital geodata are presented through the project of modelling and creating Digital atlas of the Boka Kotorska Gulf regardless of the epoch of formation of the basic cartographic sources because the changes occurring are not the same in the case of all geographic map elements. The advantages of modelling thematic atlas within applied system of cartographic and GIS methods are listed what represents the way for getting new charts and new data about quantitative and qualitative characteristics of certain geographic phenomena of the Gulf.

Keywords

• Boka Kotorska Gulf
• digital atlas
• geographic information system
• modelling
• thematic map