Best Map Award 2015
Using a fuzzy inference system to delimit rural and urban municipalities in the Czech republic in 2010
Vít Pászto, Alžběta Brychtová, Pavel Tuček, Lukáš Marek, and Jaroslav Burian (Palacký University, Czech Republic)
Journal of Maps, Volume 11, 2015 - Issue 2
Published online: 07 Aug 2014
Due to the suburbanisation process, it is becoming more difficult to properly define rural and urban areas in the Czech Republic. This paper and map focus on the delimitation of rural and urban municipalities in the Czech Republic, providing a very unique combination of geographical information science, cartography and modern geo-computational methods. The aim of the map is to visualise, in an illustrative way, what the fuzzy degree of membership was for each municipality in the Czech Republic. The dominant feature of the map sheet is the main map (at scale of 1:500,000), which identifies the fuzzy membership degree of the municipalities. Seven secondary maps (each at scale of 1:2,500,000) depict the fuzzy membership of municipalities by individual indicators.
Why publish open access?
Open Access (OA) means your research is free to access online as soon as it is published, meaning anyone can read (and cite) your work. Increase readership, impact beyond your field, and retain the copyright to your article.
Submission guidelines
All submitted manuscripts are initially assessed by the Editors, and, if considered appropriate for potential publication in the journal, are peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single blind and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
