History of the Hungarian Geological Maps – An Overview from the 18th Century to Nowadays

Galambos, Csilla

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“…Based on the huge archive data, a renewed geological map series was compiled in 1953 in 25k scale form the mountainous regions of the country to serve as the base of new mineral explorations (Fülöp, 1968). The new maps used a unified symbol system as well (Galambos, 2009), and also served as a base for the compilation of a new 300k synthesis map of the previously acquired knowledge (Balogh et al, 1956).…”

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The changing use-cases of medium and large-scale geological maps in Hungary

Albert

2019

Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Systematic geological mapping of a country is done mainly by state authorities often involving industrial and academic partners in the process. The resolution of the result is controlled primarily by the financial background of the firms and the scale of the available base maps. In Hungary the state authority for geological mapping was established in 1869. Prior to this, geological maps were aimed to give an overview of the country. Later the mapping campaigns focused on providing support for the industry, agriculture and civil engineering. The need for detailed maps of raw materials led to increased efforts and founding, but from the end of the 1970s the mining industry did not need more maps and the geological mapping campaigns lost their inertia. Parallel with this, in the Cold War era, the ban to use detailed topography on geological maps ruined the ergonomic value of the produced cartographic materials. After the collapse of the socialist economy in 1989 the state authority concentrated on digitizing the existing data instead of systematic geological mapping. Geological maps became an illustration of extensive contributed books about certain regions, which were made by scientists for scientist. Though, many of these medium-scale geological maps are now provided via internet, large-scale maps are not available. In the last decade, the use-case of the geological maps seem to be changing again. The geological information interests not only the professionals, but the larger audience as well. Also, the spreading of geotourism, created a need to compile geotourist maps.</p>

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The changing use-cases of medium and large-scale geological maps in Hungary

Albert

2019

Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc.

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Cartographic analysis of some old Transylvanian geological maps from the second half of the nineteenth century

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Old geological maps are extremely important sources of information about the state of geological knowledge of a specific period. Using GIS techniques, the old geological data and concepts can be compared and analyzed together with modern ones. Thus, the aim of this work is to present some old Transylvanian geological maps from the second half of the nineteenth century, with special respect to their legend and topographic basis, as well as to discuss the georeferencing methods and results in order to incorporate them into a unified GIS database. The geological maps of this study are the followings: the geognostic map of the Habsburg Empire by Haidinger (Geognostische Uibersichts-Karte der Oesterreichischen Monarchie 1845); the geological map of Transylvania by Hauer et al.(General-Karte des Grossfürstenthums Siebenbürgen und der im Jahre 1861 mit dem Königreiche Ungarn vereinigten Theile 1863); the geological map of the Habsburg Empire by Hauer (Geologische Ü bersichts-Karte der Ö sterreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie nach den Aufnahmen der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt 1867-1871); the geological map of the Seklerland by Herbich (A Székelyföld földtani térképe 1878a). These maps were compiled using as topographic basis the map sheets of the 1st and 2nd Military Survey of the Habsburg Empire (later Austro-Hungarian Monarchy).

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History of the Hungarian Geological Maps – An Overview from the 18th Century to Nowadays

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The changing use-cases of medium and large-scale geological maps in Hungary

The changing use-cases of medium and large-scale geological maps in Hungary

Cartographic analysis of some old Transylvanian geological maps from the second half of the nineteenth century

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