Abel's Ltd. was founded in the fall of 1996, but its members are noted cartographers among the Hungarian professional community (Imre Faragó, Ábel Hegedűs).

Their maps are made on MacIntosh computers by Freehand and other programmes.

The company specializes on the production of maps of Hungarian regions (e.g. hikers' maps) as well as of areas in neighbouring countries popular for Hungarian tourists (the Transylvanian parts of Romania, Slovakia). Most notable among its publications is the map of Székelyföld, or Secuimea (central and eastern Transylvania) with place names in three languages (Romanian, Hungarian, German). This unique map had been missing in the market for the past 50 years. It has also come out with new school wall maps of Harghita and Covasna Provinces with bilingual geographical names, wich have been produced on order of the Romanian provincial educational boards and can be considered as the first ones of their kind in the Transylvanian Basin.

The company has also produced a road map of Romania at scale 1:700,000, containing the largest number of place names among similar products of this scale. Other maps of the company include city and tourist maps of Transylvania (Cluj/Kolozsvár, Harghita and Gurghiu/Görgényi Mountains).

Considering maps of Hungarian territories they primarily include town and hiking maps (Visegrád, Tihany, Csongrád County etc.).

Map production activities were taken over by the Kárpátia Térképműhely Kft. (Carpathia Map Workshop Ltd.) led by Mária Bohnet and Imre Faragó. Abel's Ltd. has since concentrated its activities on publishing, marketing and trade.

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