Map of the Diocese of Požega (Dioecesis Posegana)

Abstract

The project is aimed at upgrading existing and outdated maps from the time when the presentday area of the Diocese of Požega in Croatia was under the Archdiocese of Zagreb. We could not find a single map of the Diocese of Požega since its establishment in 1997. That is why in 2001 we began to create one at the Faculty of Geodesy. It has been developed in stages and this work is still ongoing. The paper describes how the new map was created, it explains its purpose and the motivation behind the idea to create the first map of this diocese, and mentions obstacles that had to be dealt with during the research of certain specific thematic content. It also describes several working versions of the map. The project on which the paper is based is unique because it investigates sacral topics and facilities which have not yet been identified or depicted cartographically. The authors have successfully created a map which is built around sacral themes and emphasized cartographic details relating to this diocese. The procedure, though complicated due to the lack of available data, entailed collection and analysis of commonplace data and depicts authors' exposure to the difficulties of making and designing map.

The patrimony of wooden churches, built between 1531 and 2015, in the Land of Maramureș, Romania

“…The final cartographic material resulted from combining the DEM, photographs taken by the authors and processed under the form of pictograms, information and methods gathered from scientific paper-based bibliographic resources (Beconyte & Viliuviene, 2009;Ilieş, 2003;Irimuș, Vescan, & Man, 2005;Wendt, 2013) and maps (Baias et al, 2014;Beconytė et al, 2014;Buterez, 2016;Ilieș et al, 2013;Zupan & Franges, 2014), all supported and completed by rich information obtained from field mapping and documentation activity. The images gathered in the field, processed and shown under the form of pictograms, representing each and every church, were georeferenced by points and transposed in the system of known coordinates, establishing tie-points with geographical information system (GIS) data as well as a 20 m DEM.…”

“…Based on methods and tools tested in the speciality literature (Baias et al, 2014;Beconyte et al, 2011;Beconytė et al, 2014;Buterez, 2016;Cataudella, 2004;Di Gregorie, Frongia, Piras, & Forresu, 2014;Ilieș et al, 2013;Ilieș, Ilieș, & Deac, 2015;Le Fur, 2007;Zupan & Franges, 2014), the structure was created and the working stages were defined. The creation of a database was the first step of this endeavor.…”

Monasteries of Buzău County, Romania (fifteenth–twenty-first centuries)

“…Mapping the geography of religion at regional scales came to the attention of researchers in recent years (Weisenberger, 2014;Župan & Frangeš, 2014;Župan, Lapaine, & Frangeš, 2010). A common observation these papers point out is that producing such maps can be difficult in terms of data representation and level of complexity.…”

Roman Catholic Diocese of Varaždin (Dioecesis Varasdinum)

“…This was achieved and presented on the new map of the Diocese of Varaždin, which we have released for the first time on the large scale and in large format. The similar method was used in the creation of the maps of the Gospić-Senj Diocese (Župan, Lapaine, & Frangeš, 2010) and the Diocese of Požega (Župan & Frangeš, 2015), which had been completed, described and published earlier. We will show problems and opportunities in the thematic representation of spatial units.…”