OFFICE
MAPS AS A NEW SORT OF CARTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTS. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE
O.V. Artemyeva
St.-Petersburg
State University, Faculty of Geography and Geoecology, St.-Petersburg, Russia
karta_spb@mail.ru
Now the special office maps groups
was applied in the cartographical market among all diversity of products.
Modern lines of society development change of state control style the frames
have led to its occurrence. Similar maps became demanded by a society more
recently, therefore their significance promptly increases.
The basic features of office maps
are the following.
1. Consumers: managers and managers
of all levels power structures, chiefs of the average and large companies
working with a space of the information allocation in this or that form.
2. These cartographic products are
executed under the special order and consequently, actuate a greater part of customer
authorship.
3. The dimension of maps: from 1
square meter up to 6 and more square meters, in any proportions on length and
width.
4. "Vertical" (wall) usage
of cartographical products that leads to the special design as units of the
contents, and to a selection of fonts.
5. Small quantity of copies - from
one up to several pieces. Printing of such maps is going on not on the offset
equipment, but on a large-format plotter.
6. Exclusive promptness of execution.
As a rule, managers wish to see an off-the shelf maps to the determined date
(conference, arrival of the high-ranking person, a television, anniversary and
so on). Without usage of modern computer technologies it would be not possible
to solve a problem.
7. Terrain of scope: from
municipality which the customer-manager operates on, up to maps of the World
with display of the company branches the when the map is ordered by a business-structure.
8. The form of maps representation:
paper, paper with lamination, often on special substrates, with usage of
magnets and light-emitting diodes that enables to demonstration of phenomena
dynamics. For today it is the unique form of "motion" display (except
for electronic maps).
9. The special units of contents:
socially significant objects, sites of administration and its branches, all
those objects which the given customer operates and, therefore, bears the
responsibility for, borders of
"neighbors".
10. Exclusive requirements of
customers to a modernity of the attributive (thematic) information at possible
discrepancies in geometry.
Now office maps are the most
successful tool for spatial vision and making of any administrative decision.