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The Effect of the Bologna Process on the Cartographic Courses in the Hungarian Higher Education
After the 1990 political reforms, it took several years until Hungary officially signed
the Bologna Declaration (1999). The progress was very slow: the implementation of
the Bologna principles only started in 2002. The nation-wide introduction of the BA
and BSc system began in 2006 and will be continued at master level in 2009. One
of the most important bodies in this process has been the Hungarian Accreditation
Committee. This Board consists of university professors and academics and has
control over the establishment and introduction of curricula at all higher education
institutions in Hungary.
As for cartography and geodesy, we had two independent 5-year degree
programmes in the pre-Bologna system (Cartography at Eötvös Lorånd University,
and Surveying and Geoinformatical Engineering at the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics) and two 3-year degree programmes in the College
of Surveying and Land Administration in Székesfehérvår. Due to the integration
of Hungarian higher education institutions in 2000, this college was incorporated
into the University of West Hungary as a faculty. These institutions had worked
a lot on establishing and developing their own programmes. However, due to the
implementation of the Bologna process, these individual programmes have lost their independence. It is only natural that all these institutions were interested in finding a
solution to keep as much of their original curricula as only possible.
Although about 140 BA and BSc programmes were established at national
level, the Bologna system in Hungary did not allow any cartography-related BSc
programme. However, Eötvös Lorånd University and the Budapest University of
Technology and Economics have established their MSc programmes that are related
to cartography. Four universities also agreed on starting a new MSc in GIS, but the
Hungarian Accreditation Committee refused the approval of their joint proposal.
There are further cartography-related MSc programmes waiting for decision by the
Hungarian Accreditation Committee. Some BSc and MSc programmes (such as
geography and informatics) established specialization in GIS, and this gives us the
opportunity of teaching cartography and GIS to a larger number of students
Application of web 2.0 in cartographic education. Is it time for cartography 2.0?
The term web 2.0 was first used in 2004 at a conference where the organizers
focused on the new generation web services. Although web is not software and it has no
versions everybody understood this term and also understood the real meaning behind it.
In the last 30 years, cartography considerable changed and we may think of using a
similar term for our science: cartography 2.0.
Although web 2.0 is not a clear and easily definable term, we can list new features
of the web which has formed this new term. Wiki, blog, RSS, mashup applications, social
networking are the key features (and other less notorious ones are still under development)
which are not concrete applications, but rather philosophies.
Wiki is a type of website that allows the users to easily edit/change some available
content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. Can we effectively use this new
technique in cartography?
Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject, as personal online
diaries; they can be part of a wider network of social media. There are some cartographic
blogs available (operated mostly by younger cartographers) which can give new chances
for collaborative work, so they may help the cartographic education.
One of the most prominent mashup applications is the websites which are
connected to GoogleEarth to use their basemaps/satellite images to add their own
geographically located contents. These applications are also used by non-cartographers to
help them to âmake mapsâ.
Are these new features enough to introduce the new term: cartography 2.0
New technologies in making orienteering maps
Orienteering maps are special type of maps, which are mostly made by non-professionals.
The technology of making these maps (fieldwork, drawing) has considerably changed in
the last 20 years.
Base maps can be made by digital photogrammetry or airborne laser scanning technology,
but the methods of creating state topographic maps (which are used as base maps of
orienteering maps) have also changed in the past few years. The accuracy of these maps
has also increased to help the users.
In the fieldworking, we can use GPS devices (sometimes with real-time differential
corrections) for measuring points and lines. GPS devices are available for more than 20
years, but only in the last few years they became used in fieldworking as regular
techniques.
For faster, but not very accurate distance measurements, we can use ordinary laser distance
finders. The orienteering maps are drawn by computer software. In some countries, these were the
first types of maps which were created only by computer methods.
Orienteering maps are good indicators of how the new cartographic techniques are easily
applicable for non-professionals or how widely they are used as everyday techniques.
This paper summarizes the milestones of the development of these techniques to
understand how we can make these methods and devices more user-friendly and simpler
Mapping standard for sprint orienteering: standardized competition maps for urban, park and forest areas
Orienteering maps are one of the map products where the symbol set is standardized, no national deviations
are allowed. Orienteering has developed a new form of competition which was originally held in parks or urban areas.
This competition form is a very short and fast event where good media coverage is possible.
The use of parks and urban areas has a significant advantage: it brings the sport into the midst of people and offers
opportunities for increasing public and media awareness of orienteering.
The international specification for traditional orienteering maps contains symbols for man-made features. However, the
symbol set needed revision and extension in order to provide a clear and unambiguous interpretation of urban terrain
required for fair competition in sprint orienteering. There are a number of reasons why the mapping of urban areas
needs a modified approach compared to that used for the depiction of the 'classic' forested terrain
Edutainment in cartography
Edutainment is a mixture of education and entertainment. In the software industry edutainment was very popular
in the 80âs and the first part of the 90âs when the graphic capabilities of PC-s were very limited. The early computer
games were based on textual information. From the second part of the 80âs low resolution pictures became a part of a
computer game, but that was still quite far from the so called multimedia. As the CPUs and graphic cards became more
powerful computer games started to develop rapidly. Nowadays the 3D, the virtual reality, the real time animation and
the high quality sound are the essential parts of computer games. The computer games in edutainment are nearly totally
disappeared. In the last some years the internet games turned to be more popular: the relatively low bandwidth and the
lack of web multimedia standards gave new opportunities for the edutainment in this environment. Cartography can profit
form this revival because maps are very popular content of the web
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A Térképtudomånyi Tanszék a nyolcvanas évek közepén-
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A tĂ©rkĂ©pĂ©szet lehetĆsĂ©gei a www-n
World Wide Web can have an effect nearly all kind of science. Output oriented subjects (like cartography) can use
this new kind of media much easier than other subjects. However WWW, this new "output device" requires new view, we
have to keep in mind the limits of a real output device, the computer screen. Creating maps for computer screens is a
known problem in cartography because of the existing digital maps, CD-ROM atlases. However the process of creating
WWW oriented map images is not only a simple process of scanning or converting of existing digital map
Brave new cartography
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