Map Collection Web Portal

The Map Collection portal provides a clear summary of all significant projects and activities of the Map Collection.

  • metadata catalog
  • 65,000 images without watermark
  • geographic search
  • 97 globes in 2D
  • 9 globes in 3D
  • arbitrary manipulation of 3D models
  • 4 geomorphological models in 3D
  • 29 plastic map in 3D
  • 2 plastic atlases in 3D
  • registers 26 Czech and 21 foreign digitized maps collections
  • contains links and web addresses
  • brief description of both physical and digital format
  • more than 68,000 bibliographic records
  • more than 105,000 units
  • part of the CU central catalog

 

  • bibliographic database with abstracts
  • Bohemian geographical documents from 1450
  • the life and work of prominent Albertov cartographers
 

1. Web Portal of Karel Kuchař

 

2. Web Portal of Ludvík Mucha

 

3. Web Portal of Jaromír Janka

 

4. Website dedicated to other important figures of the Map Collection

  • georeferenced maps from the StareMapy.cz project
  • available on the Oldmapsonline.org
  • methodology for processing of cartographic works and making them available 
  • methodology for cataloguing, digitizing maps, atlases and globes
  • a selection of exhibitions realized in the Geography Library and Map Collection
  • digitized posters available in the UK Repository
  • e-learning course "Old maps - digitization, cataloguing, analysis"
  • available in the Moodle system
  • publication activity of the Map Collection 
  • articles, monographs, lectures, presentations at conferences