Abstract
Abstract. Geographic services of NATO member states produce standardised topographic maps for geographic support of their foreign missions. The MGCP data are used for the maps creation of the scales of 1:50,000 and 1:100,000. Topographic maps used for military training in own territory mostly remain in original form without full standardisation. NATO with support of the Defence Geospatial Information Working Group prepares a new standard for the Defence Topographic Map. The geographic service of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic has started the preparation process of the new topographic maps edition compliant with the new standard. Two prototypes of map sheets of scales of 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 were created in 2020, which serve for basic verification of map content symbolisation and applied technology. Procedures for generalization of the map content for the scale of 1:100,000 will be completed in next two years.
Highlights
For a long time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has been working under the motto "fight off the same map" to unify the means of expression of maps used in joint operations of the NATO allies
Many documents have been published since Defence Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) was established which have served as main sources for Standardization Agreements (STANAG) issue
Some military mapping agencies use own geographic data standardised according to NATO STANAGs, some of them use civilian topographic maps, which are supplemented by standardised elements
Summary
For a long time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has been working under the motto "fight off the same map" to unify the means of expression of maps used in joint operations of the NATO allies. There is a problem as national military topographic maps are not usually standardised and their design and content vary from one NATO member state to another. Some military mapping agencies use own geographic data standardised according to NATO STANAGs, some of them use civilian topographic (state) maps, which are supplemented by standardised elements. The main characteristics of these maps, whose four editions were published, had remained the same until the Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999. Geospatial standards were applied to the main geospatial data model - the Digital Model of Territory DMU25 (MoD-GeoS, 2013) - and the fourth edition of the topographic maps was supplemented by standardisation elements such as UTM grid in WGS84. WGS84, UTM projection, Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), and bilingual legend (Czech and English) are the main standardisation elements. DMU25 has remained as a basic data source for cartographic models until today
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