CARTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS USED IN DIGITAL TOURIST GUIDE Martina Kepka Vichrová, Pavel Hájek, Radek Fiala, Michal Kepka, Ondřej Dudáček, Václav Čada Ing. Ph.D., Martina, Kepka Vichrová*, +420 377 639 216, vichrova@kgm.zcu.cz Ing., Pavel, Hájek*, gorin@kgm.zcu.cz Ing. Ph.D., Radek, Fiala*, fialar@kgm.zcu.cz Ing., Michal, Kepka*, mkepka@kgm.zcu.cz Ing., Ondřej, Dudáček*, odudacek@kgm.zcu.cz Assoc. Prof. Ing. CSc., Václav, Čada*, cada@kgm.zcu.cz * NTIS – New Technologies for the Information Society – Research Center, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, Plzeň, 30614, Czech Republic Abstract Deploying multimedial tourist guides is a modern trend for an information support of tourists in the contemporary digital era. Classic printed tourist guides containing texts and pictures were transformed into their digital versions. But just texts and pictures seem to be not enough yet. A contemporary user wants to “see more”, to have more opportunities how to get information from a guide. Thanks to the progress in ICT, especially in an improving performance of portable devices, augmented or virtual reality is being very popular nowadays. A crucial part of such a reality is in its 3D models, which are displayed on such devices. This contribution tends to compare two approaches, how to create such 3D models, especially models representing historical monuments. First approach is based on an automatic processing of images (i.e. comes from the field of photogrammetry) and the second is based on a more or less manual creation of 3D models using 3D CAD software. Comparison of both approaches is based on two models of the same monuments, one obtained by an automated approach and the second obtained by a manual approach. Pros, cons and limitations of both approaches are discussed with a focus on creation of historical monuments. It shows that an automated approach is not suitable for all situations and all kinds of historical monuments, especially when a historical monument exists not anymore. Keywords: tourist guide, 3D model, photogrammetry, baroque monument, cartographic representation INTRODUCTION Utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and other modern tools or media penetrates almost all areas of human life. One of such areas are even a domain of tourist guides. A paper has become no longer the main medium used within this domain, it has been replacing by multimedia and Web technologies in the last decade. Such technologies enable to provide not only textual and pictorial information, as the traditional paper tourist guides do, but also a multimedia content such as sound, video, content-rich web pages (Fino et al. 2013), location-based guided mobile applications (Zheng et al. 2017, Kourouthanassis et al. 2015) or an interactive content based on virtual 3D scenes, such as Augmented (AR) (Puyuelo et al. 2013) or Virtual Reality (VR) (Zarzuela et al. 2013). Therefore such a content can be very complex in a sense of amount of information, as well as easy to be brought out by the user both before the journey and during the journey in the field. Towards to the topic of this paper, these modern technologies can bring benefits to tourists especially in one often case, when historical locations don’t exist any more or when they were changed completely from different reasons. In such cases, domain of 3D modelling comes into account that can provide virtual experience at least. Using these ICT technologies makes possible to link a description of touristy interesting location with information important for trip planning and using of local services such as accommodation, refreshment and so on. The concept of Linked data bringing methods and tools to link such information and this concept brings benefits to tourist guides respectively to tourists directly (Čerba and Mildorf 2016, Čerba and Jedlička 2016). This contribution is based on the Czech-Bavarian INTERREG project called “Peregrinus Silva Bohemica – Multimedia and digital tourist guidance for cross border historic routes in the Bavarian-Bohemian forest” is focused on design and development of multimedia tourist guide to baroque heritage along cross border historic pilgrim trails in the Bavarian- Bohemian Forest. Proceedings, 7th International Conference on Cartography and GIS, 18-23 June 2018, Sozopol, Bulgaria ISSN: 1314-0604, Eds: Bandrova T., Konečný M. 490