An Atlas is away to display and store spatial data. That atlases have gained great fame through out their long history. As there were many types of them and the methods of preparing and producing them developed with the great transformations and developments in the technology and information revolution that the world is witnessing, the atlases as acartographic product were not isolated from this technical development. Especially that which has been witnessed by cartography in the last two decades. After the tradional paper based body was the predominant for decades, the observer of the development of atlases realizes the shift to producing and publishing atlases of various kinds in digital from under the name of electronic atlases, even if the methods of preparing tem and the methods of publishing them differ. The importance of the atlas is that it is the first tool that enables the user to compare, match and collect data of different measures and similar degrees of education . |
