Hungarian GIS Market Survey 1997.
Cartographia Ltd.

The predecessor of Cartographia Ltd., the Cartographia, Hungarian Company for Surveying and Mapping was established on 1st December 1954. Its present circle of activity was set up after several processes of reorganisation.
After 1st January 1959 Cartographia's profile has been widened by unifying of different sections with geodetic activities, as topographic surveying, photogrammetry, drawing of topographic maps, as well as a Printing office of small capacity. The initially 90 people strong staff of Cartographia nearly quadrupled by today.
Since 1969 Cartographia has got the rights for foreign trade activity. This made possible the building up of large partnership and good relations almost in all countries of Europe.
By knowing the foreign partners and their requirements as for quality, style, high level technology, and in order to keep the competitiveness on the foreign market Cartographia has made large investments of advanced technology and utilising modern devices in the production-process.

Since 1991 the geodetic departments were detached from Cartographia and on 1st January 1993 the company was registered under a new name: Cartographia Ltd.
In order to keeping the high standards of production, the standing developing of its equipment's park was setting for target according to the newest demand and the modern technical requirements. It possesses a modern `Hercules@ imagesetter, utilises Intergraph, Macintosh and PC computers work in the production. Besides compilation, drawing, planning, editing, which demand very precise work and accuracy, it produces lithographic drawing and printing, and ready-to-print map-films and reproduction works in good quality.
It succeeded maintaining the good relationship with the ancient partners and also continuously widening its business contacts with new ones. The first export products like the atlas made for the French Larousse, the atlas-pages for the American Rand McNally based Cartographia's reputation. These commission-works were followed by new map-orders of the well-known companies, among others Freytag-Berndt (Vienna), Hallwag (Bern), Falk Verlag (Hamburg), the German Ravenstein Verlag, which are also proof of their recognition.
Cartographia Ltd. is a great name in cartography. On its product-pallet figures a great number of school atlases, wall-maps, guide-books, tourist maps, foreign city maps, road maps, different atlases which are at high level, and they have been distributed with great success all over the world. A wide range of descriptive, technical maps of Cartographia Ltd. help experts in the field of economy, science and education. Thanks to opening to multimedia, Cartographia Ltd. presented the Budapest CD-Atlas in 1996 and Hungary CD-Atlas in 1997 as the first two member of its CD-Atlas series. The presentation, richness of contents and the quality are at West European level. The Cartographia-products are popular also because of their competitive prices. Year for year it enters into new business relation with foreign partners as well.
At present Cartographia Ltd. has world-wide contacts and large partnership on the five continents. Its most important business partners are from America, Israel, South Africa and Australia. Cartographia tries to satisfy the growing demands of customers and aiming progressively widen the circle of its partners.

Contact information:

Mail address: 1590 Budapest, Pf.: 80.
Telephone: (361)-363-3639
Fax: (361)-363-4639
Contact persons:
Árpád Papp-Váry, Dr. CEO:
Tamás Tóth GIS executive
Alíz Neményi marketing executive

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