Aim of this bachelor thesis is gathering freely accessible geodata for thematic maps creation within the teritory of the Czech Republic. This data was divided into eight groups, according to their theme (waters, traffic, sports, agriculture and forestry, turism, environment, topographic basis, and web maps services). Futher step was to create ten thematic maps in the chosen sotware of GIS, using various cartographical methods.

Part of this thesis was also to create a database of sources, where the chosen selection of metadata was written down.

Databasis of sources, data, and sample maps including the projects, created in ArcMap 9.3. application are to be used on the enclosed DVD.