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Polish cartography is based on a long tradition, and its high-quality products deserve to be more widely noted. However, rather well-known are two Polish reference atlases of particular importance, edited by Eugeniusz Romer (1871-1954): The "Powszechny Atlas Geograficzny" (= General Geographical Atlas, Lwów and Warsaw, 1928), and the impressive "Wielki Powszechny Atlas Geograficzny" (= Great General Geographical Atlas, started 1936), an undertaking interrupted by the Second World War. From a more recent period dates the smaller "Powszechny Atlas Swiata" (= General World Atlas), published by PPWK, Warsaw, 1974. But the "Atlas Swiata" (= World Atlas, 1962), prepared by the Polish Army Topographical Service, ranks first. This major work was published in an English edition by The Pergamon Press as "Pergamon World Atlas" in 1968; it contains a wealth of 380 pages of maps, figures and tables, closed by an index-gazetteer of around 150,000 entries. Every geographic map is accompanied by a wide selection of thematic maps and maps showing the environs of principal cities. The Pergamon edition has extra maps of the United Kingdom and Canada.