Kartografie
Editorial foreword
In the fourteenth year of her existence, the Cartographic Section of the Royal
Dutch Geographical Society presents this special issue of her Journal to the partici-
pants of the Fourth General Assembly and Sixth Technical Conference of the
International Cartographic Association. This special issue is the 58th in a series which
the undersigned has had the pleasure to edit from 1958 onwards.
In its Contents this special Montreal/Ottawa issue reflects the diversity of subjects in
which Dutch cartographers have in recent times been interested. Within its cover,
there are seven articles which deal respectively with experiments from the realm of
Psychologie colour pereeption as applied to cartography, automation, the hydro-
graphic cartography of the North Sea, the historical cartography of the world's oceans,
modern topographic maps and of the produetion and distribution of a map of
Rotterdam/Europoort.
The editors of 'Kartografie' view the appearance of this issue with some pride,
because it appears from the Contents that this small Cartographic Section in the
Netherlands has managed to recruit from its members enough specialists which
resulted in such a variety of articles that a connection with the themes of the
Technical Conference in Ottawa was possible. The editors of 'Kartografie' hope that
this special issue will sueeeed in contributing to the scientific Contents of the Sixth
Technical Conference.
A most appropriate link between the Dutch cartographers and their Canadian
colleagues is demonstrated by the fact that the Dutch text of most of the articles in this
issue was translated by Mr. Hugo Stibbe, Map Curator of the University of Alberta,
Edmonton, who is spending a year of doctoral studies at the Utrecht University. The
editors thank Mr. Stibbe very much for his help! In addition, the editors wish to
thank the Board of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society for their Subvention which
made the distribution of this issue possible and also the Department of Geography of
the University of Utrecht for its material support.
Finally, the undersigned thanks his co-editors, Drs. P.W. Geudeke and Drs. F.J.
Ormeling for their devotion to the task of actually Publishing this issue.
The Editor:
DR. IR. C. KOEMAN
Professor of Cartography
State University Utrecht
K.N.A.G. Geograßsch Tijdschrift VI (1972) Nr. 3
265
