The new National Atlas of Hungary – volume Natural Environment
- Publication
- Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association
- Volume
- 2
- Pages
- 64
Hungary · Version 2
1989–1994In their historical account, the editors describe the 1989 National Atlas of Hungary as a six-year undertaking led by Márton Pécsi, involving 87 institutions and organizations and 183 authors and editors. The Hungarian–English volume contained 395 pages and 763 maps, mostly at scales of 1:1 million to 1:2 million. Explanatory text expanded from eight pages in the 1967 edition to one hundred pages. The authors identify socialist regional planning as its principal function: approximately 60% of the maps concerned the national economy. They also note that the atlas included criticism of socialist industrialization, agricultural policy and regional economics as access to information eased in the late 1980s. Most maps remained confined to Hungary’s state boundaries. The account dates the five supplementary booklets to 1994–1995 and connects them to post-1989 social and economic changes and the 1990 census. It describes a shift toward public and educational use, problem-oriented themes such as migration, elections and environmental conflicts, and digital map production.
View whole-article summary
The new edition of the National Atlas of Hungary will be published in four volumes in Hungarian and in English to present the dynamic spatial structure of nature, society and the economy not merely for Hungary, but wherever the required data are available, for the Carpatho–Pannonian Area. In favour of keeping relations with the broader public and meeting the requirements of the time, the National Atlas – in addition to its impressive printed form – will be published also in digital version (e-MNA) in Hungarian and English. The traditional paper-based edition will cover the most important topics in four volumes (The Hungarian State and its Place in the World; Natural Environment; Society; Economy) and in representative quality. It will serve mainly awareness-raising and information provision rather than academic research. The current volume of the new National Atlas of Hungary (MNA), which is presenting the Natural Environment, is the outcome of wide ranging professional collaboration: 19 editors, 137 authors, 220 map authors, 17 cartographers, and several dozen professional and language proofreaders, translators have made their valuable contributions to it.
Related Atlases
Comments
Loading...
0/2000