The Czech Historical Atlas Portal project has won the Map of the Year 2020 Award

The Czech Historical Atlas Portal project has won the Map of the Year 2020 Award

It gained first place in the category of Digital Cartographic Products and Internet Application.

 

20.10.2021

The Czech Historical Atlas Portal, created by the Department of Geomatics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU in Prague in cooperation with the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, has won first place among four nominated prestigious works in the 23rd Map of the Year annual competition organized by the Czech Cartographic Society. 

The portal, created under the supervision of prof. Jiří Cajthaml at the Department of Geomatics, covers Czech history in an international context. It is a set of web map applications using the latest GIS technologies. It contains functions enabling user interactivity with the map, e.g. searching, linking with texts and images, combining layers, providing the map export option. The area of interest are the Czech Lands from prehistoric times to the end of the 20th century, with an overlap into the Central European space.

Congratulations on your success!

The portal can be visited here: https://cha.fsv.cvut.cz/

Responsible: prof. Ing. Karel Kabele, CSc.