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Important economic entities and transport infrastructure of the Giant Mountains in the 20th century

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Abstract

Specialized map with specialized content is a set of 12 spatial, time-arranged layers that analyze changes in the territorial, sectoral and legal structures of major economic entities operating in the Giant Mountains in accordance with its definition stated in the project. It contains time layers from the beginning of the so-called First Czechoslovak Republic until the late normalization or "perestroika" of the second half of the 1980s.

Interactive map application is accompanied by methodological textual commentary, as well as expert textual commentary on individual time layers (including a brief analysis of changes of studied phenomena between individual layers), filtering interface and list of sources and literature. Together they form a common whole - an interactive web application.

The web application was created on the basis of author's research on individual companies, using digitized older maps (for the development of transport infrastructure), contemporary cartographic materials and cited sources and literature. GIS methods and selected approaches of contemporary cartography were used for processing.

Vectorization and georeferencing were part of the digitization of old maps.