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Developing a Web-Based Demographic Atlas for Croatia

Demographic data play a central role in the development of any country. However basic and up-to-date information on the population, economy or environment is often not readily available to the scientific community as well as the wider public. This situation is also applicable to Croatia, a post-socialist reform state and candidate country to join the European Union where fundamental information on the structures, composition, distribution, natural and spatial developments and trends of the population is often not readily available. To help bridge this information gap a group of Croatian and German geoscientists are developing the Demographic Atlas of Croatia (DACIS) in a joint effort. DACIS is implemented as a web-based demographic atlas information system that provides the demographic fundamentals and regional developments of the Croatian population, since Croatia´s independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Targeted at the general public, educators as well as decision makers in politics and the economy, the electronic web atlas will be complemented by a conventional book volume.

electronic atlas; atlas information system; demographic atlas; desktop mapping; web mapping; open source

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