Abstract
Abstract. It has been just for more than thirty years that the English-language version of the detachable structural-morphological globe of the Earth with 40 cm diameter produced by the Cartographia Enterprise won the prize of the best demonstration aid (Anson and Gutsell 1989) at the Budapest conference of the International Cartographic Association in August 1989. This success was the result of the cooperation between two education institutions (Kossuth Lajos University and Eötvös Loránd University /ELTE/) and two Hungarian firms (Cartographia Enterprise and School Equipment Producing and Marketing Company). This unique product has been the only thematic earth globe designed and published in Hungary and which was duplicated in a relatively large number. It is a rarity today. This is one of the reasons why this globe has been placed in the Virtual Globes Museum (VGM) (http://terkeptar.elte.hu/vgm). This paper gives an overview of the history of these thematic globes: the Hungarian versions made in 1986 (VGM ID 8, 9, 10) and the English versions published in 1988 (VGM ID 66, 67, 68). It introduces the immediate scientific antecedents of their birth and – being a demonstration aid – the process of publishing. The paper also presents the work with the Russian version of the globe carried out at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE (VGM ID 154, 155, 156). This will lead to the expansion of the number of globes in the VGM. The close relationship between the new product and the former two editions is also pointed out.
Highlights
The research paper, “Study on the representation of seafloor relief” was published at the Cartographia Enterprise in Budapest in 1984 (Márton and Kővári 1984). It had two A3-sized annexes, which showed the sample processing of four spherical segments in the projection of the 40 cm diameter earth globe (Figure 1 B). When these maps were compared with the relief representation of undersea features on the 40 cm educational relief globe published as a demonstration aid for schools in 1962 (VGM ID 43) and renewed in 1981 (VGM ID 84), it was clear that the latter products were outdated (Figure 1 A)
The sample processing aiming at creating a new and modern representation of undersea relief was made at the Editing Division 2 of Cartographia, edited by Mátyás Márton, designed by József Kővári, hill shading by Márta Bárkainé-Neményi, fair drawing by János Bakos and Gyula Gyenes
Students of cartography from the Department of Cartography of ELTE came to the Editing Division 2 of Cartographia to do their summer practice at the end of their fourth year of studies in 1985. (In those times, cartography training lasted for five years.) Based on the results of his research, Mátyás Márton guided the students
Summary
The research paper, “Study on the representation of seafloor relief” was published at the Cartographia Enterprise in Budapest in 1984 (Márton and Kővári 1984) It had two A3-sized annexes, which showed the sample processing of four spherical segments (gores) in the projection of the 40 cm diameter earth globe (Figure 1 B). Pál Kovács, responsible editor, offered a price, which was approved by Tibor Dudar, editor in chief, on 10 October 1984 This suggests that TANÉRT had already contacted the Cartographia Enterprise in the matter of making the map prints for the globe. (This point was recommended by Mátyás Márton, geophysicistcartographer, who was appointed leading editor of the work He supported the work by presenting two A3-sized sample sheets of his research, “Examination of representing undersea relief”, and compared them with the sketchy representation of the undersea relief on the 40 cm educational globe.). The task of mounting, lacquering, wrapping and trading belonged to TANÉRT
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