Editorial

890 Foreword by the Chief Geologist of Poland Andrzej Skowroñski

893 Geological administration activities in geological map-ping in Poland

Ewa Zalewska, Eliza Dziekan-Kamiñska

894 The Polish Geological Institute activities in the cross-bor-der geological mapping

Maciej Podemski

899 Teaching of geological mapping at Geological Mapping Department, AGH University of Science and Techno-logy, Kraków

Ireneusz Felisiak, Jacek Matyszkiewicz, Tadeusz Soko³owski 903 The Detailed Geological Map of Poland 1 : 50,000: the

history, present and future Andrzej Ber

907 Application of remote sensing methods in geological mapping

Marek Graniczny

913The application of GIS in geological cartography Waldemar Gogo³ek

917 The Polish Hydrogeological Survey Database Integra-tor — a new GIS tool for the hydrogeological database management useful in mapping process

Jolanta Cabalska, Agnieszka Felter, Mateusz Hordejuk, Anna Miko³ajczyk

921 Map of Preliminary Valorisation of the Major Ground-water Basins as cartographic representation of docu-mentation of groundwater reservoirs, with establishing direction for further work and research

Les³aw Skrzypczyk

924 Hydrogeological Map of Poland 1 : 50,000 — present state and development of computer data base Piotr Herbich

930 Probabilistic evaluation of the extent of the unconfined aquifer

Marek Kachnic, Andrzej Sadurski

935 Groundwater monitoring as a tool of the hydrogeologi-cal cartography in Poland in the light of Water Frame-work Directive

Bogus³aw Kazimierski, Andrzej Sadurski

940 The management and data distribution system of the Hydrogeological Map of Poland 1: 50,000

Marek Fert, Grzegorz Mordzonek, Dorota Wêglarz 942 Significance of geological cartography in priority

pro-blems of engineering geology Joanna Piniñska, Zbigniew Frankowski

949 Lineaments interpreted at the radar images and the digital elevation model within the Palaeozoic rocks of the Holy Cross Mts.

Marek Graniczny, W³odzimierz Mizerski, Anna Pi¹tkowska 891

Editorial

Last year, to commemorate the

32

International Geological

Congress in Florence, a special issue of

Przegl¹d Geologiczny 8/2

(

Geological Review) has been published entirely in English. It

has been warmly welcomed by the readers and helped to

pro-mote knowledge of the geological structure of Poland and its

particular regions among foreign Earth Sciences professionals.

This favourable reception motivated us to follow up with

another special English issue of our journal. We have decided to

devote it to various aspects of geological cartography — one of

the main activities of national geological surveys. Since in Poland

the functions of the geological survey are performed by the Polish

Geological Institute, most papers are authored by scientists from

the PGI in Warsaw and from its regional branches. Nevertheless, other institutions involved in

cartographic work, including universities, are also represented. We hope that current issue of

Przegl¹d Geologiczny (Geological Review) will be also met with interest by geologists

from abroad, so that we can continue to publish regularly each year an English-language

special edition focused on selected topics.