About landscape, its structure and even development, informs a number of historical video and text documents. They represent very clearly contemporary landscapes, vedute, parerga and later also photographs and films. Historical cartographic works display landscapes intuitively, at the level of contemporary knowledge and use, by appropriate graphic and technical means. Location, status and relationships of natural, socio-economic and technical objects and phenomena of which can now be re-studied with varying credibility. Great information potential has in this sense cartographic works that are created on the base of the original mapping and the correct geodetic and cartographic principles. In the Czech Republic, such topographical works are created from approximately the start of 18th century, detailed works of the cadastral nature about 100 years later. Without the information potential, however, are not even older image materials. In modern society, landscape studies are impacted by specialized sciences. The results are, among others, very sophisticated landscape (ecological, etc.) thematic maps. Although the identification of landscape structure, respectively its parts, from classic topographic or detailed (cadastral) map is difficult, their study provides, in historical context, unique comparative material.