Country Profile: Serbia

Country Resources

Topographic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Former Yugoslavia 1:50,000 Scale Topographic Maps (DMA M709)Defence Mapping Agency1:50,0001992 – 2000415
Former Yugoslavia 1:100,000 Scale Topographic Maps (DMA M6010)Defence Mapping Agency1:100,0001999 – 200110
Yugoslavia 1:25,000 Scale Topographic MapsVojnogeografski Institut1:25,0001968 – 20092048
Yugoslavia 1:50,000 Scale Topographic MapsVojnogeografski Institut1:50,0001966 – 2006561
Yugoslavia 1:100,000 Scale Topographic MapsVojnogeografski Institut1:100,0001971 – 2004196
Yugoslavia 1:750,000 Scale Topographic MapsVojnogeografski Institut1:750,0001968 – 19682

Geoscientific
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Romania 1:500,000 Scale Geological Maps (12 Sheets)Comitetul Geologic1:500,0001964 – 19641
Romania 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological Map (2 sheets)Institut de Geologie Si Geofizica1:1,000,0001978 – 19781
Romania 1:1,000,000 Scale Metallogenic MapInstitut de Geologie Si Geofizica1:1,000,0001969 – 19691
Yugoslavia 1:100,000 Scale Geomorphological MapsR. O. Geoloski Institut1:100,00078
Yugoslavia 1:100,000 Scale Geological MapVojnogeografski Institut1:100,0001967 – 1992204

Thematic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
The World 1:30,000,000 Scale Topographic Map Series 1145 (NGA)DMA1:30,000,0002
Yugoslavia 1:50,000 Scale Water Resources MapsSSNOSKP1:50,0001984 – 1993201

Global Census Archive: GIS Census Data

East View Geospatial has an ongoing effort to add GIS census data to our Global Census Archive program. Please contact us for the status and availability of Serbia census resources.


Global Resources

Topographic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Soviet Military City PlansVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)Varies1944 – 20033017
Soviet Military 1:100,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:100,0001947 – 199924897
Soviet Military 1:200,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:200,0001949 – 200917799
Soviet Military 1:500,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:500,0001953 – 19983093

Nautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
NGA Nautical Charts POD Certified (All Scales)National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyVaries1943 – 20134517

Aeronautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) 1:250,000 – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:250,0001958 – 20074204
Tactical Pilotage Chart (TPC) 1:500,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:500,0001967 – 2006598
Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) 1:1,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:1,000,0001969 – 2001243
Jet Navigation Chart (JNC) 1:2,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:2,000,0001971 – 1999117
Global Navigation and Planning Chart (GNC) 1:5,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:5,000,0001981 – 199927

Geoscientific
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Soviet Military 1:1,000,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:1,000,0001948 – 19941089

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Historical Country Mapping Information

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Topographic

Following the secession of several of the former Yugoslav federal states, Yugoslavia was reconstituted in 1992 as a federation of the two republics of Serbia and Montenegro.

The official topographic mapping agency remains the Military Geographical Institute (Savezna Geodetska UpravaSGU), Belgrade, which was founded in 1944, but whose origins go back to 1876, when a Geographical Section was established within the Serbian Army. By the 1920s an extensive program of triangulation and levelling was in progress and topographic map series at scales of 1:50,000 and 1:100,000 were in production. This ‘Parisian’ mapping (because it used the Paris meridian) remained of service until well after World War II. However, soon after the establishment of the new Institute in 1944, an entirely new program of topographic mapping began, using photogrammetric techniques and a new survey control network. The basic scale mapping for the whole of postwar Yugoslavia was 1:25,000, and the complete series of 3,029 sheets was issued between 1959 and 1968. There were subsequent revisions. Derived series were published at scales of 1:50,000, 1:100,000 and 1:200,000. A 1:500,000 scale series was linked to aeronautical charts and other thematic mapping, and three 1:1,000,000 scale sheets were produced in conformity with the International map of the World specification.

The sheet lines of these series are graticule-based and refer to the Greenwich Meridian. The maps are colored, and are gridded, with contours (20 m intervals for the larger scales), roads color classified and woodlands in green. The 1:500,000 series has hypsometric tints for relief.

A digital version of the 1:100,000 scale topographic map is in preparation, and in 1996 work began on a national digital base map at 1:5,000 scale. The work is being done by the Institute of Geodesy, in the Civil Engineering Faculty of the University of Belgrade. The military map series still form the basis for topographic maps in several of the newly independent Balkan Republics.

Soviet military topographic mapping of Serbia exists at the following scales: 1:1,000,000 (2 sheets, complete coverage, published 1981-1990); 1:500,000 (6 sheets, complete coverage, published 1978-1989); 1:200,000 (27 sheets, complete coverage, published 1976-1989); 1:100,000 (86 sheets, complete coverage, published 1976-1986); 1:50,000 (285 sheets, complete coverage, published 1972-1986) and city (1:10,000) topographic maps of Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad published between 1975 and 1988. These products are available in print, digital raster and digital vector GIS formats from East View Geospatial.

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GIS/Vector

Digital mapping within a geographical information systems framework has been carried out by several academic institutions. A water resources database for Serbia is being developed by the ‘Jaroslav CerniWater Resources Institute.

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Geological/Scientific

The Federal Geological Institute (Geoinstitut) in Belgrade has been responsible for an extensive standard series of 1:100,000 scale geological maps, and a number of 1:500,000 scale earth science maps have been published in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Thematic

Hydrological, meteorological and climatological data are collected by the Federal Hydrometeorological Institute (Savezni Hidrometeoroloski Zavod).  A climatological atlas was published in the 1970s.

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Tourist/Reference

The principal commercial cartographic publishing company is Izdavacka Ustanova Zavod za KartografijuGeokarta‘ (Geokarta), Belgrade, established in 1947. The company prepares a range of folded, road and tourist maps of the Balkans, city maps of Belgrade, general world and continental maps and also specializes in the production of school atlases, wall maps and other maps for educational use. Some maps are in Cyrillic and some use the Latin alphabet.

Many private publishers now located in the newly independent Balkan republics have contributed to the general and tourist mapping of the region. A useful indexed map covering the greater region is the Times map of the Western Balkans, and tourist maps by Freytag-Berndt (FB), Vienna and Kummerley and Frey (K+F), Bern, cover the whole of former Yugoslavia. The American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has also produced useful small scale general and thematic maps.

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Census/Demography/Statistics

Statistical data is collected by the Federal Statistical Office, and has been used in demographic mapping.

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