Our history
Although the cartography education started only in 1955 on the Faculty
of Science, there has been several great geodesy and geographer scientist
on the EÖTVÖS Loránd University since it's foundation in
1635 in the town of Nagyszombat, Slovakia by Cardinal Péter PÁZMÁNY.
In 1953 the Department of Cartography was built up, two years after the
first third-year students with the major of geography or geology could start
their cartography studies here.
As few years went by the number of students had been growing significantly
with the distance learners who already had working experience on the fields
of civil or military mapping. In accordance with the general universal education
reform in the beginning of the 70-s the teaching had changed. The cartographer
education remained a three-year-long teaching in the syllabus but the previously
existed geography basic training had changed into a four-semester-long earth
sciences basic education together with the geologist and geophysicist students.
The Hungarian education law in 1986 made it possible that the cartographer
training could start as a ten-semester-long education in the academic year
of 1988-1989.
The English language Cartography MSc started in 2016 and the Geoinformatics MSc in 2024.
Until recently about 500 students have got cartography diploma at EÖTVÖS Loránd
University. The PhD program started in 1994, up to the present (2023) 42 people
awarded this degree. The department became an institute in 2020.
Research activities:
- thematic cartography (electronic atlases)
- remote sensing (UAVs, hyperspectral images)
- mathematics in cartography (projections, optimal distortions)
- internet and mapping (webcartography, hypermedia)
- theoretical cartography (history of cartography, toponymy)
- working in the commissions of the International Cartographic Association
(ICA)
Educational activities:
- general cartography, thematic cartography
- computer cartography GIS
- geodesy, GPS, Projections
2023 - Christmas