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Summary
M-J. Kraak, F.J. Ormeling J. Smits - The national atlas as
Organisation medium for access to geoinformation
Keywords: use of geographical information, background
Traditionally, the atlas is used as a tool to find geographic
information. In a digital environment this could be a digital
atlas. The authors take this idea as the starting point for their
research proposal to use the national atlas, as metaphor for the
most accurate and detailed source of geoinformation, as one of the
entries to the geoinformation infrastructure of the Netherlands.
Other funetions of the atlas to this end should be the geographic
ordering of the information, as geographic search engine, as
interface to the underlying databases and as visualiser of the
databases. At the same time attention is paid to the position of the
atlas itself as part of the formal geoinformation infrastructure of
the country and therefiore providing access to geospatial data.
Resume
M-J. Kraak, F.Ormeling J. Smits L 'atlas national en tant
que media pour rendre accessible l'information geographique
Mots-cles: utilisation de l'information geographique, informa
tion de reference
L'atlas est l'outil traditionnelpour La recherche des informations
geographiques. Dans un environnement numerique, il pourrait
donc s'agir d'un atlas numerique: c'est le point de depart des
auteurs d'un projet de recherches visant utiliser l'atlas national,
metaphore des informations les plus precises et les plus detaillees en
la matiere, comme un des medias donnant acces Tinfrastructure
de l'information geographique aux Pays-Bas.
D 'autres fonetions de l'atlas pourraient etre, lors de la 'mise en
ordre geographique' de l'information: Instrument ('machine') de
recherche, interface pour saisir des donnees complementaires et
comme media de visualisation des donnees. Les auteurs insistent
enfin sur l'articulation de l'atlas, en tant qu'instrument de
recherche d'information geographique accessible dans
l'organisation de Tinfrastructure nationale du SIG.
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