RAS, A.
1970-1980
VAN ROERMUND, J.A. C.E.
1969-heden
ROMEIN, J. E.
1958-1979
SCHOKKENKAMP, J.
1958-1961
DE SMIT, M.
1958-1971
SIJMONS, A. H.
1978-1980
STAAL, G.
1982-heden
VAN DER WAAG, A.
1966-1974
WILLEMS, G. F.
1966-1977
DE WIJS, R. T.
1978-1982
Development of cartographic education. In all these
fields the developments in the Netherlands for the
period 1958-1983 are described, with special
emphasis on the role of the Netherlands Cartographic
Society.
It was especially in the fields of education, of repro-
ductiontechniques and of map librarianship that
committees of the NVK were actively promoting Co
operation and stimulating new developments; these
endeavours were sustained by the efforts of the
editors of the 'Kartografisch Tijdschrift(the
society's journal), and by the Organisation by the
NVK-board of, since 1958, 72 meetings (such as
technical symposia and summer schools) on which
more than 250 lectures were delivered. It is also
the voluntary dedication of the 450 personal and 100
institutional members of the society that make the
NVK a thriving and going concern.
Summ a ry
F. J. ORMELING SR. - A QUARTER CENTURY OF
CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION IN THE NETHER LANDS
The Netherlands Cartographic Society (NVK) started in
1958 under the aegis of the Royal Netherlands Geo-
graphical Society, where it could thrive and deploy it-
self. In 1975 the cartographers left this protected
environment and operated henceforth as an independent
society, a phenomenon that occurred in so many other
countries as well, since World War II. This joining of
hands of cartographers was brought about by an in-
creased demand for their products, by a rapid evolution
of map production techniques (computer-assisted
technologies included), by the discovery of the map as
a tool for communication and the ensuing development
of cartographic theory and terminology, and by the
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