Republic of Armenia boundary, marzes, and communities
Administrative geometry is normalized into public labels such as State boundary, Marz, and Community.
Source-aware data lab
Ararat Lab source profile.
Ararat Lab is the data-normalization and cartographic publication layer behind AP thematic maps. On public maps the source is shown simply as Ararat Lab; this page records the external datasets, public APIs, clipping rules, and normalization principles used to build the map-ready layers.
Public-map rule: map popups should show readable facts, not technical field names. Dataset acronyms, raw IDs, and import details belong here, while the map itself stays clear for users.
Physical and hypsometric layers
Elevation samples are converted into terrain classes and hypsometric readings for Armenia-only thematic maps.
Faults, seismicity, and mineral records
Fault, earthquake, and mineral records are clipped to Armenia and shown as separate evidence classes.
Temperature, precipitation, wind, and snow indicators
Climate layers are derived as readable thematic grids rather than as raw API dumps.
Rivers, lakes, groundwater, soils, vegetation, forests
Hydrological, soil, vegetation, forest, and agricultural records are kept in separate layers so they do not overload the map.
Cities, settlements, density, and public geography
Settlement and population layers are filtered for Armenia and generalized for fast browser rendering.
Armenian heritage and wider Armenian World geography
Republic-of-Armenia thematic layers remain in Map Armenia. Wider Armenian architectural and cultural geography is handled by the separate heritage and Armenian World maps.
Normalization before display
Ararat Lab converts raw public data into map-ready GeoJSON/API layers, removes service labels from public popups, clips records to the intended geography, and keeps evidence classes separate.
Connected public rooms
Ararat Lab supports the visible atlas pages and keeps source notes outside crowded map popups.
Thematic layer specification
The Armenia thematic room now has a formal public-layer contract: units, display modes, legend rules, popup standards, source labels, performance rules, and upgrade targets for each map family.