Submitted by the Netherlands** Summary*** The report provides updated toponymic guidelines for the Netherlands that deal with languages, the Dutch alphabet and spelling rules for geographical names, including capitalization and hyphenation. A pronunciation guide is provided both for Dutch and for the Frisian minority language. The report also indicates authorities for the standardization of geographical names. Users are referred to maps and gazetteers that show the correct spelling of place names in the Netherlands. Finally, to assist map interpretation, the report provides a glossary of appellatives, adjectives and other words necessary for the understanding of maps as well as a list of abbreviations used on official topographic maps of the country.

Map the earth and the moon, why not cyberspaceWith the increasing in the Internet, there is a virtual space termed cyberspace, parallel to geographic world in which we are living. Cartography, as a discipline developed initially for mapping geographic space. It is now challenged to map virtual space. From the point of view of cartography, this paper attempts to define the special mapping of cyberspace by the cybermap. It is the authors' belief that cartographers, with a long standing traditional of mapping geographical space, can make an important contribution to mapping cyberspace. A similar view is held by Plewe (1995, p. 2) who stated that cartographers are unique in their ability display very information in a clear, understandable fashion.

This paper is intended to provide more insights into intuitive perceptual aspects of colouring uncertainty, based on the perception experiments conducted. In total, five different kinds of colour scales and four bivariate colour schemes were investigated for the representation of uncertainty and data combined with uncertainty respectively. It is concluded that instead of the saturation scale attempted in some previous investigations, a lightness scale starting with white is relatively easily perceived as one of the best solutions. It is shown that a random dot scale, as an alternative to colour scales, provides an intuitively good understanding of uncertainty. It is also shown that bivariate schemes using a random dot scale on both axes, or a random dot scale on one axis and a tint scale on the other, have advantages over spectrally encoded schemes for visualizing data combined with uncertainty, as well as for overlaying of attribute information of different phenomena.

In France, with the emergence of the geographical research group RECLUS, a new research organisation model has developed that benefits both geography and cartography, the latter through its emphasis on computer-production of thematic maps and its introduction and stimulation of the use of cartographic software packages. The trademark of the RECLUS research group is its use of chorèmes, cartographic models that retain dynamic and hierarchic relationships in spatial representation. These have been developed by Roger Brunet into a sign-language with which relational models of regions can be built, stressing aspects of spatial organisation not rendered by traditional maps.

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale GeografieVolume 80, Issue 1 p. 58-62 THE BOS ATLAS AND GEOGRAPHY TEACHING IN THE NETHERLANDS F. J. ORMELING SR., F. J. ORMELING SR. *Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80. 115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this authorF. J. ORMELING JR., F. J. ORMELING JR. *Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80. 115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author F. J. ORMELING SR., F. J. ORMELING SR. *Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80. 115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this authorF. J. ORMELING JR., F. J. ORMELING JR. *Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80. 115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this author First published: February 1989 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.1989.tb00756.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume80, Issue1February 1989Pages 58-62 RelatedInformation