Abstract
Abstract. As a result of the Perczel Project outlined by Mátyás Márton in 2007 at the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), the complete digital restoration and then reconstruction of the 127.5 cm diameter manuscript globe was completed in 2019. The final cartographic completion of the ongoing task at the department by 2013 – led by Mátyás Márton, the project manager, who carried out this work with the help of Judit Paksi –, which included the work of many lecturers and students, aimed at saving the globe.Using this augmented digital processing, it was also possible to create three artistic copies of Perczel’s globe, which was originally made in 1862. This unique work of art, which has suffered irreparable damage due to the ordeals of the 20th century, is of great cultural value and also very important for our cartographic heritage, has been reborn.Following the digital reconstruction, there was a good opportunity to revive another related project. The website, “The interactive gazetteer of Perczel’s globe”, which was born as a result of the work of Zsuzsanna Ungvári and Tibor Tokai earlier, was also created with a new, expanded content. The present study presents the antecedents of gazetteer creation and describes the most important steps of current processing.
Highlights
During the digital reconstruction of Perczel’s globe, the authors met several challenges
At the beginning of the project, the idea emerged to create an interactive gazetteer of this giant globe made in 1862
In a gazetteer to a map, when the users search for names, they find the geographical objects by grids
Summary
During the digital reconstruction of Perczel’s globe, the authors met several challenges. In the first phase of the restoration, it was not allowed to find out the illegible characters: the only way to complete these letters was if the students had found contemporary maps that proved their idea for the examined name. Since it needed too much time and energy to read the poorly visible letters, lots of names contained question marks. Perczel may have used this atlas while editing his globe: this is proved by numerous graphic and onomastic similarities He kept the German form of names in several cases. This atlas had earlier publications: for instance, the 5th edition in 1857 or earlier could be his source
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