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Orienteering maps are very special maps, because not only they are using the same specification all over the World, but also the users themselves create these maps regularly. This paper summarizes the implementation of the most important cartographic techniques of the last decades including the application of the information technology.
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Ernst Spiess got the ICA Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal in 2005; Christer Palm is an ICA Honorary Fellow (1997).
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Zentai, L. (2014). Implementation of Cartographic and Digital Techniques in Orienteering Maps. In: Buchroithner, M., Prechtel, N., Burghardt, D. (eds) Cartography from Pole to Pole. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32618-9_2
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