Digital Cartography and It's Role in Building Tourist Atlases an Applied Study on The Governorate of Luxor

Interactive Atlases is one of the most recent trends in Modern cartography, Interactive atlas includes a wide range of features and techniques compared to its traditional counterpart, making it a powerful cartographic resource for users, and an important tool for making decisions and finding solutions to many geographical problems through its association with the functions of geographic information systems. It also enables a number of exploratory functions of information, geographical and statistical data by means of tools specifically designed to combine current geographical visualization techniques and collaborative aspects in the open-source Atlas Web system.           
               Just as traditional atlases contain a number of graphic display )Tools of Presentation(, according to the theory of cartographic communication, the concept of electronic atlas is related to several other related concepts such as human-computer interaction - information visualization, usability engineering and design-based design. User, visual analytics and graphical user interface design, which requires simple and intuitive usability for minimal user experience and requirements, with Interactive Atlas through a set of basic functions that are easy to use and implement.
               The process of producing an interactive atlas through which information can be provided and extracted to a wide range of users in the cartographic product development environment via the web requires many new cartographic applications, namely: the use of the five stages of the user-centered design system, that is, the inclusion of the user in each stage of the design and building iterative models This makes the cartographic product more useful and usable.