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GIS website (six chapters containing 35 themes):

1. About GIS history: What is GIS?, the first steps, analogue GIS, the beginnings of
computer sciences, Canada Land Inventory, SYMAP software, ESRI &
Intergraph, MapInfo & Autodesk, GIS Day.
2. GIS data: Vector data model, raster data model, layers on the maps,
fundamentals of databases, geocoding, multimedia databases.
3. GIS data sources: Surveys, aerial photos, satellite photos, GPS, source maps,
thematic databases.
4. GIS processes: data collection, data input, data analysis, data output.
5. Data analysis: Overlay, buffer, classification, fuzzy.
6. Graphic outputs: webmaps, 3D models, animations, Geography Network, Hun-
garian websites.

Multimedia in maps website (six chapters containing 35 themes):

1. Stories about data visualization: Catalan Atlas, John Graunt, William Playfair,
Alexander von Humboldt, making the diagrams popular, Bertin and the graphic
theory.
2. The first thematic maps: Halley's map, Valentin Seaman, early geological maps,
Humboldt and Berghaus, French influence, John Snow.
3. Thematic maps today: Sciences on maps, drawing symbols, drawing areas,
isolines, diagrams on maps, drawing with points, choroplets and cartograms,
representation of movements.
4. Traditional multimedia on maps: Before the multimedia of today, what is
multimedia?, maps and multimedia, multimedia in atlases, the first animated
maps.
5. Digital multimedia on maps: Introduction, beginnings of digital multimedia,
digital maps, digital multimedia atlases.
6. Multimedia in webmaps: maps in the Web, interactivity in the Web based
atlases, Geographic Network, learning with outline maps, settlements on L ´ z ´ r's
map, “All about maps ... ”.

15.3 Creation of a New Website

15.3.1 Theoretical Research

After more than 10 years from the presentation of the original website, the time
arrived to update the content if needed, and to modify the structure and design of the
website, considering the development experimented by the Internet and in particu-
lar by the Web during this period of time. In October of 2010, the authors decided to
begin the preliminary tasks to make these changes. First of all, we studied again the
content related to Geography subjects in the Hungarian Educational System, paying
special attention to the basic level (Elementary Schools). This analysis began with