Population
Population
young
old
recreation
- black/grey
- green
- grey
- green
Products
steel
glass
wood
power
fruit
- blue/grey
- white
- brown
- red/white/yellow
- red
- red/white/yellow under
brown enz.
power direct
under wood
6. PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE
The 'colour-key' offered here for Dutch maps isfar from complete. Additional stu-
dies ^nd inquiries have to be conducted, whereby all concepts which can be represented
by colour on maps are taken and its relationships on the colour preferences of the map
user tested. If this has been done, a Standard colour-key can be designed. This
colour-key can then be compared with the choice of colour as applied in various
official map series and commercial cartographic products. On the basis of the results of
such comparisons it would then be possible to make recommendations for the better
use of colour in Order to improve cartographic communication.
F.L.T. van der Weiden, Ing. and Drs. F.J. Ormeling, Cartographic Section, Geographical
Institute, Utrecht State University.
Mr. A.J. Karssen, Enschede, instigated this inquiry. He also designed the questionnaire. The
inquiry was conducted by Prof. Dr. Ir. C. Koeman, F.L.T. van der Weiden, A.J. Karssen and
F.J. Ormeling.
1. W. Smits, Resultaten van de kleurenenquete gehouden ter gelegenheid van de lOe kleurendag van
de N. V. V.K. In: Verslag van de Tiende Nederlandse kleurendag, Nederlandse Vereniging voor
Kleurenstudie, Rotterdam 1960.
2. A.V. Hartogh, Het zien en toepassen van kleuren in de praktijk. Amsterdam 1954.
3. A.H. Robinson, Psychological Aspects of Colour in Cartography. In: International Yearbook of
Cartography, 1967. Gütersloh 1967.
LITERATURE
Oegema van der Wal, Th., Practische kleurenpsychologie. 2e druk Amsterdam 1956.
C. KOEMAN*
The Amsterdam Publishing house of Van Keulen and the Zee-Fakkel, an 18th Century
Pilot Guide for the world's seas
De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakkel, in short De Zee-Fakkel, is the title of the
pilot guide in folio-format, consisting of six parts which describes in text and with
charts nearly all coasts, seas and islands of the world. The first five parts came off
K.N.A.G. Geograßsch Tijdschrift VI (1972) Nr. 3 289
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