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On 8 December 1999 the SGA director formed the Commission
for Production of the Guidelines for Conduct of Topographic
Survey and Production of National Maps. The Guidelines were
completed within the given period and published in Narodne
novine No. 64/2001.
On behalf of Division for State Boundaries at the beginning of
the year 2000 the SGA initiated and completed the production
of photoplans at the scale 1:100 000 (sheet size 30x50 cm). The
photoplans cover the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croatian border in
the length of 100 km from Bihaé to Kamensko (near Imotski).
They were used for demarcation of the boundary because there
was no suitable map available.
The legend was designed for the Croatian Base Map at the scale
1:5000 (HOK) as well as for topographic map at the scale
1:25 000 (TK 25) (DGU, 2001). Furthermore next 62 sheets of
digital TK 25 out of total 594 were produced (Landek, 20032).
All topographic maps at the scale 1:25 000 and 1:100 000 were
transformed from the PDF format into TIF. The production of
the digital terrain model DMR 5/0 was continued.
SGA contracted out the production of digital orthophoto maps
(DOF) for the area of Zadar (30 sheets), and the area of
Koprivnica (16 sheets), and the reconstruction of digital
orthophoto maps of the area of Zagreb (55 sheets).
In 2001 the SGA published the first publication: the translation
of the book Elements of Spatial Data Quality. The editors are S.
C. Guptill and J. L. Morrison, and the book was translated by
D. Tutié and M. Lapaine (Lapaine, 2001).
At the end of 2001 SGA published the Catalogue of Products
(Landek, 2001a) together with the technical description and
prices of the products: aerial photographs, digital orthophoto
map, Croatian Base Map 1:5000, digital terrain model, topo-
graphic maps at the scales 1:25 000, 1:100 000, and 1:200 000,
cadastral plans at the scales 1:1000, 1:2000, 1:2880, and
1:2904, cadastral plans in digital form, and the graphic inven-
tory of spatial entities. The second edition of the Catalogue was
published at the beginning of 2003 (Landek, 2003a).
In 2001 several cartographic projects were funded by the SGA:
The Accuracy Assessment of DMR 5.0 (Plesko, Biljecki 2003),
The Design of Cartographic Data Model (Biljecki et al.,
2003a), The Establishment of Topographic and Cartographic
Database (Biljecki et al., 2003b), Graphical and Alphanumeri-
cal Coding Scheme for National Topographic Maps (Paj, 2003),
Cartographic Generalisation and Standardisation for National
Maps (Paj et al., 2003).
Director of the SGA Dr. Z. Baëié is a member of the
Management Board of EuroGeographics, a co-chairperson of
the Coordinating Board of the Real Property Registration and
Cadastre Project and a member of the Advisory Board of the
Central-European Land Knowledge Center (CELK).
One can find out more about aforementioned and other
cartographic projects funded by the SGA in published reports
(Landek, 2001b, 2003b) and in Chapter 3.1.3. More details
about the activity of the State Geodetic Administration can be
found on the Internet address http://www.dgu.tel. hr/dgu
3. INSTITUTE FOR CARTOGRAPHY AT THE
FACULTY OF GEODESY, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
The Institute for Cartography is one of five institutes at the
Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb. According to the
new Curricula from 1994, the students can choose in the
seventh and eighth semester Photogrammetry and Cartography
as one of the three subject oriented courses after finishing the
first six common semesters. All students attend the subjects
Geodetic Drawing (0+2) in the first semester, and in the fifth
semester they all attend the courses on General Cartography
(242).
Within the scope of the subject-oriented courses Photogram-
metry and Cartography in the seventh semester, Digital Car-
tography (2*2) is an obligatory subject, and in the eighth
semester (2*2) Map Visualisation is obligatory. In this program
the students can also choose the other cartographic subjects:
Geoinformation Systems, Multimedia Cartography, Cartogra-
phy and GIS, Map Generalisation, Topographic Cartography,
Thematic Cartography, Transformations in Cartography, Map
Reproduction and two seminars in Cartography and GIS, and
Practical Cartography.
During the period 1999-2003, the teachers of the Institute for
Cartography made lecture notes for the subjects Digital
Cartography (Francula, 2001), Map Projections (Frantula
2000a), Map Generalisation (Francula, 2000b) as well as the
manuals Cartography and AutoCAD Map (Lapaine et al. 1999,
2001), and Introduction to GIS (Tutié et al. 2002).
The postgraduate scientific studies of geodesy at the Faculty of
Geodesy, University of Zagreb are the studies for acquiring
academic title of Master of Science, or academic title of doctor
of science in geodesy.
The postgraduate studies consist of optional and facultative
subjects. The optional subjects are divided into two groups:
general subjects and subject oriented courses. The group of
general subjects is common to all subject-oriented programs.
Students select one of the three subject-oriented programs on
their own. The optional subjects in the program Photogram-
metry and Cartography are: Computer Graphics in Geodesy,
Map Facsimiles, Official Topographic and Cartographic Infor-
mation System of the Republic of Croatia, Geodetic Cartogra-
phy, Cartographic Heritage, Remote Sensing, Automation in
Photogrammetry, Modelling in GIS and Digital Terrain
Modelling.
During the period 1999-2003 five master theses in the field of
cartography (Duplanci¢-Leder 2000, Kljaji¢ 2001, Javorovié
2001, Racetin 2002, Poslon¢ec-Petri¢ 2002) and one doctoral
thesis (Vuceti¢ 2001) were defended at the Faculty of Geodesy,
University of Zagreb.
In 1999 and 2000 seminars were organised for people coming
from practice activities. The following seminars were held three
times:
I. Introduction into Digital Cartography and GIS, intended
for all who had no chance to get acquainted with these new
areas of cartographic activity (15 lecture hours)
2. Digital Cartography and AutoCAD Map intended for
experts who want to deepen their knowledge of digital
cartography and learn the basics of AutoCAD Map (10
