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- Title
A new tool to follow the changes of geographic names on globes.
- Authors
KURIS, Zoltán; RAPCSÁN, Klaudia; UNGVÁRI, Zsuzsanna; GEDE, Mátyás
- Abstract
The Virtual Globes Museum1 (VGM) is one of the largest project of the last 15 years at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics. In this project, many publications appeared in journals and conferences, but the geographic names on the globes were less studied topics. Therefore, the new idea was to create a database and a searching application, where users can follow the changes of geographic names from the middle of 19th century (when the first printed Hungarian globes were published) until nowadays. Thirty globes was selected from VGM. The earliest one was made in 1840 and its diameter is 31.65 cm. This one has already contain the new pursuits of Hungarian Language Reform. There are several globes from the second half of the 19th century in VGM: these ones served in the geography education and spread in the primary and secondary schools. These globes names were translated to Hungarian by János Hunfalvy (the famous geographer) and Pál Gönczy (teacher and geographer, secretary of state of education), and their publishers were the Ernst Schotte & Co. and Jan Felkl (and son) Co. These globes became outdated for the beginning of 20th century. The modernized maps were introduced by the Hungarian Geographic Institute - a firm lead by the Kogutowicz family. Then the most globes published between the World Wars continued the Kogutowicz era. The website also contains the globes of Cartographia, the monopolistic civil cartographic company of Hungary during the socialism (from 1965 to 1990), which mirrors the recent forms of geographic names. The selected globe's diameters are vary: the smallest is 5.8 and the largest is 51 cm. The database and the website were the project of four students in cartography: the initial dataset was recorded in 2010 in spreadsheet tables by Virág Szabó). Few years later (in 2017), the first version of the website was created (by Arthur Beszkid), which contained only the sea names, and visualized them on a virtual globe. Klaudia Rapcsán introduced the names of capes and ocean's currents into the database, and finally Zoltán Kuris (2021) extended the website searching functions and added the river and lake names into the database.
- Subjects
CARTOGRAPHY; MAP design; GEOINFORMATICS; GEOGRAPHY education in primary schools; GEOGRAPHY education in secondary schools
- Publication
Abstracts of the ICA, 2021, Vol 3, p1
- ISSN
2570-2106
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/ica-abs-3-166-2021