The Sao Paulo state's Atlas, Brasil

Great possibilities are today offered, which justify all initiatives directed to the structure and consolidation of methodological guidelines for the elaboration of any type of geographic atlas. Nowadays all them would go in the direction of cartographic science basis, now confirming as a true infocartography or geomatics or even a cybercartography. After a short relate about atlases in the world and in Brazil, it is treated specifically the "Atlas do estado de Sao Paulo". Viewed as a study participating of the Brazil atlas system, it is placed theirs initial proposals, its effective realization as a Laboratorio de Cartografia do Instituto de Geografia da USP research, idealized e coordinated by the Professor Libault in the 1966-1972 period and its new elaboration as a nowadays product. In front of these assertions, the "Atlas do estado de Sao Paulo" will crystallize as a permanent work, now in direction to a conception and realization concord with the theoretical and methodological advances in geography, cartography, linked sciences and technologic progresses of, cartographic informatics, animation, interactivity, multimedia and hypermedia.