The abandoned surface mining sites in Czech Republic: Mapping and creating the database with GIS web application

Abstract

Abstract. Based on the vectorization of the 55-volume book series The quarry inventories of the Czechoslovak Republic/Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, published in the years 1932–1961, a new comprehensive database was built comprising 9958 surface mining sites of raw materials, which were active in the first half of the 20th century. The mapped area covers 40.9 % of the territory of the Czech Republic. For the purposes of visualization, a map application The Quarry Inventories Online was created that enables the data visualization.