Radek Barvíř

Palacký University Olomouc · Department of Geoinformatics

Interactivity in today’s society finds its way into many facets of life and can be used in various ways, including 3D printing. For example, various 3D models can be incorporated into museum exhibitions and serve as interactive media for visitors, deepening their experience. One of the advantages of haptic 3D models is the immediate haptic feedback...

The quality of life has been an attractive topic for several decades, and it has received attention in the scientific, political and public spheres. However, in a growing number of studies aimed at assessing the quality of life, inconsistencies persist in the definition, theoretical underpinnings and in approaches to assessing the quality of life....

This paper and accompanying map aim on the issue of brain drain (otherwise known as Human Capital Flight) concerning cultural and creative industries. The study is focused on the evaluation of Olomouc city, Czechia. In the case of a mid-sized city such as Olomouc, human capital flight is largely associated with cultural and creative fields, because...

The paper presents the data from the participatory emotional mapping in Prague, Czech Republic. It contains 98,364 points complemented with 30,941 comments from 5,973 respondents from across Prague (1,335,084 inhabitants according to [1]). There were eight questions/statements common for all of Prague, furthermore each Prague district (n=27) could...

Map load is a map property quantifying the amount of map content in cartographic products. Since the 1960s, various approaches have been examined to determine map-load value to assume the map complexity level. However, none of these approaches has become commonly used to evaluate the map-load level neither during the map-design process nor for maps...

Despite the growing efficiency of the map-design process in general, tactile mapping has remained peripheral to mainstream cartography. For a specific group of people with visual impairment, however, tactile maps are the only effective way to obtain a complex idea about the geospatial distribution of the surrounding world. As there are numerous spe...

The issue of graphic map load is currently very often overlooked. Conversely, having an objective knowledge of the level of a map load helps cartographers to assume the map’s readability and suitability for a target group of users. The aim of this study is, therefore, to use the Graphic Map Load Measuring Tool (GMLMT) and Subband Entropy script as...

Trvale udržitelné lesnictví je založeno na principu umírněného využívání přirozeného produkčního potenciálu lesních ekosystémů. Klasifikace přirozených růstových podmínek zahrnuje jak odhad nejvyšší potenciální bioprodukce, tak i klasifikaci limitů, snižujících bioprodukci. Lesy jsou geobiocenózy z prediktorů půdního a atmosférického prostředí a re...

Prostorová diferenciace trvalých abiotických predispozic má silně heterogenní charakter. Analýzami staničních dat bylo vytvořeno osm analytických map hodnot jednotlivých prediktorů. Jsou výsledkem pokročilých výpočetních procedur. V každé mapě byly intervaly hodnot prediktorů statisticky vyhodnoceny a v celém území zvýrazněny oblasti nejvyššího stu...

Graphic map load is a property of a map quantifying the amount of map content. It indicates the visual complexity of the map and helps cartographers to adapt maps and other geospatial visualizations to accomplish their purpose. Generally, map design needs to enable the user to quickly, comprehensively, and intuitively obtain the relevant spatial in...

Map complexity has been studied by cartographers for decades. Unfortunately, it is not being systematically measured as an essential map property and used to optimize cartographic products during the map-making process. Therefore, the appropriate load of map content in a map usually remains dependent only on the subjective assessment of the cartogr...

Publikace je dílem autorského kolektivu odborníků na kartografii a 3D tisk z Katedry geoinformatiky Přírodovědecké fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci a speciálních pedagogů z Ústavu speciálněpedagogických studií Pedagogické fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci. Publikace zahrnuje témata: tyfomapy, výrobní technologie, tyflografika, znaky na...

The majority of information has a spatial context that can be represented on the map, while maps are presenting the real world in the simplified and generalised way, focusing on the key features or specific topic. For some kinds of users, the map as the representation of the real spatial context is not only the possibility but also the necessity. A...

Spatial information became ordinary for everyday life, for example in different kinds of maps. The majority of maps are produced for reading with eyes. Nevertheless, people with visual impairment, including blind people, perceive the world differently and have an insufficient amount of possible ways how to investigate the surroundings. Creating a t...

Spatial variability of ecotones has resulted in problematic modelling, analysis and visualization of these landscape forms. Their spatial variability and fuzzy character cause uncertain and problematic handling in GIScience. Uncertainty of ecotones in the landscape arises from many sources, including complexities inherent to the ecosystems and thei...

The majority of information has a spatial context that can be represented in the map. For some kinds of users, the map is not only the possibility but also the necessity. In such cases it is highly important that presented information is correctly understood by the target group of users. Among these belong people with visual impairments, for which,...

Recent advances in 3D printing technology and increasing accessibility to 3D printers make it possible to relatively easily create many physical models to support classroom instruction. Terrain models are a good example of this potential in geography education. Current 3D printers are capable of creating realistic 3D objects, using elevation data f...

The article describes one of the possible ways how to create a physical terrain and surface models using a low-cost 3D printer Prusa i3. In the first part, there is a summary of currently used technologies for 3D printing, their descriptions and basic characteristics. Then the open-source 3D printer Prusa i3 based on the RepRap project is shortly d...