Understanding Complexity of a Prospective Cartographic Heritage -- From Plan Press to Button Push: the Development of Technology for Cartographic Archiving and Access -- The Preservation and Archiving of Geospatial Digital Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Cartographers -- Structural Aspects for the Digital Cartographic Heritage -- Archiving the Complex Information Systems of Cultural Landscapes for Interdisciplinary Permanent Access – Development of Concepts -- Sustainability in Terms of Geospatial Preservation -- State-of-the-Art Survey of Long-Term Archiving – Strategies in the Context of Geo-Data / Cartographic Heritage -- Preservation of Geospatial Data: the Connection with Open Standards Development -- Pitfalls in Preserving Geoinformation - Lessons from the Swiss National Park -- Geospatialization and Socialization of Cartographic Heritage -- Keep It Online and Accessible -- More than the Usual Searches: a GIS Based Digital Library of the Spanish Ancient Cartography -- Map Forum Saxony. An Innovative Access to Digitized Historical Maps -- A WYSIWYG Interface for User-Friendly Access to Geospatial Data Collections -- Pragmatic Considerations -- Considerations on the Quality of Cartographic Reproduction for Long-Term Preservation -- Issues of Digitization in Archiving Processes -- Digitized Maps of the Habsburg Military Surveys – Overview of the Project of ARCANUM Ltd. (Hungary) -- The Archiving of Digital Geographical Information -- An Intellectual Property Rights Approach in the Development of Distributed Digital Map Libraries for Historical Research.

The definition of cartographic heritage can be depicted by actual projects in modern cartography. A very basic structure of cartographic heritage is given by isolating map content, the development, preparation and creation of map content as well as map media and media carrier based issues. Therefore the topics within cartographic heritage span from archiving, reproduction, usage, education, geometric precision to psychological aspects. The contributions of this unique book describe the main focus of cartographic heritage with the help of theory, state-of-the-art practices and experience reports. It includes focii on the field of cybercartography, which uses interactive, dynamic, multisensory formats with employing multimedia and multimodal interfaces, which urgently necessitate new methods, structures and technologies.