An adaptive cartographic visualization for support of the crisis management

Adaptive cartography is one of the most important directions of the contemporary cartography research. A crisis management belongs to the typical areas of adaptive cartography usage. This text is focused on basic definition of the adaptive cartography and consequences of such definitions for crisis management practice. An overview of the research topics recently created research group for cartographic visualization support in crisis management is also presented. 1. Adaptive cartography One of important direction of contemporary cartography is to be tailored on user demands. GI technologies allow real-time dynamic change of symbolic and map content (with some constraints...). In contrary to analogue map where production time leads to universality and maximal information saturation nowadays we can make maps for unique user, unique situation with proper amount information. Basically adaptive cartography offers to user more or less the same functionality as a GIS map interface. Difference is in automated processing of cartographic visualization. In case of GIS is cartographic visualization user-driven – user, according to purpose, selects map content, rarely makes generalization and attaches appropriate symbols