Syllabus of valuation
No one map competes completely without mistakes. The city map by Geodezie CS has the best cartographic part from all valuing works, but it ranges to the average in part about tourism. On the other hand the city map by company Jena is the most superior from valuing map in the aspect of observing rules deduced from requirements of tourism, but the map isn't briliant in the cartographic aspect.
In the general comparison best city maps are made by companies of 3ADesign, Geodezie CS and Jena. In valuation city maps by companies EIV, Pragokart, RAFFAEL-art and Testudo fully failled. It is even elusive, that maps of these firms are offered as high-quality cartographic products intended for tourism in enquiry offices in many Czech cities.
Imperfection of key is the most frequent problem, all symbols of thematic content from the map field ocured only in the legend of the maps of three companies. Cartographic companies have also problems with ordered key (four companies correctly). The total absention of scale was serious defect of four companies, in other maps there were only graphical or numeral scale.
In absolute majority of the maps there aren't highlighted the important objects for tourism (only four correctly), what can cause big problems to visitors. Among czech companies there survive habit to represent accommodation and consuming facilities nonadjustmently according characters. These facilities are not represented utterly among some firms. Also banks, exchange offices and bankomats were slighted. In city guides there are often referred to descriptive numbers of houses, but they occur only sporadically in the valuating city maps.
Traffic service in the city comes right, criterieas for mapping of traffic were realized in full scale with only a few exceptions.
A visitor, who would use valuating maps, propably wouldn't lose his way in the city, but he (or she) wouldn't find the concrete building and he wouldn't know what is worth seeing without other source of information (perhaps except churches, which have a symbol in all maps).