Nature MAP
Cartosemiotic Analysis OF the
Kamilya
Kelgenbaeva and Alexander Wolodtschenko
Institute
for Cartography, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
email:
kkamila@gmx.de
email:
alexander.wolodtschenko@tu-dresden.de
http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~wolodt/tc-com/
The
paper discusses results of nature maps cartosemiotic analysis for the Atlas of
Kyrgyzstan. The Atlas was developed as complex Atlas of Kirghiz Soviet
Socialistic Republic (Kirghiz SSR) in two volumes at 1987. Based on the
semiotic structure, the Atlas covers 11 information modules and two thematic
parts. The most informative module is a "map module", which includes
82.5 pages with presentations of maps; it forms 52.2% of the Atlas total
contents.
The
first thematic part (22 maps) is an introductory one with toponomy and history
of research. The second thematic part is environment one; it has 9 thematical
subsections and 172 maps. The cartosemiotic analysis for the five subsections
(surface waters, soils, flora, fauna, landscape and environment) based on 68
maps was carried out. The results of cartosemiotic analysis in table and
diagram forms are presented.