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Mountain mapping and old toponymy of Maramures as pretext for field work

with tourism geography students

Gabriela ILIES, Marin ILIES

Babes-Bolyai University

Extension of Sighetu Marmatiei

10th Mountain Cartography Workshop Berchtesgaden 2016

Argument

• a cartography endeavor for non-cartography students, a pretext for rigorous field research, data retrieval and map design.

• Old land property documents speak about places that are hard to identify due to several errors

• The need for (some kind of) recording place-names at this scale

The maps

• Diploma work for students at Tourism Geography program

• Workflow

• Size: 70x50cm, 1:15000, aprox. 73km2

Data retrieval

(spatial and narratives)

Mapping work

(applying principles)

Design work

(experiments)

Usage

• Didactic approach: understanding the process of data retrieval, mapping and design principles, hands-on

• Image: understanding place, discover,

• Repairing errors: overlapping different place-name layers in order to fit old cadastral docs and maps in the contemporary framework (subsidies)

• Ethnographic approach: archive, regional phonetics and the stories behind the place-names

Covered Area

12 sheets with some requirements: at least one settlement and shaded relief

Understanding place, discover

Mapping old toponymy data

Important place-names Misspelled Invented

Supplement toponymy data

Thank you!