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The method of geological mapping has changed during the last decades and the collected data have been recently stored in the records of databases instead of hand-written notebooks. In the Geological Institute of Hungary, a special database structure was designed for primarily scientific purposes, but also for storing and classifying the geological observations according to their importance for geo-tourism. The relational database of the geological observations can be queried by different subjects and transcribed into KML files, which are useful for the dissemination of geological data via web 2.0 map applications like Google Earth.
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The authors thankfully appreciate the efforts of the documenters who took care of using the prototypes of the database, and occasionally made suggestions and gave advice. An ergonomic documentation system and a well-structured database serve the benefit of not only the geologists of the Geological Institute of Hungary. On the long run, the base application can be widely used amongst the Hungarian and maybe the foreign earth scientists too.
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Albert, G., Csillag, G., Fodor, L., Zentai, L. (2012). Visualisation of Geological Observations on Web 2.0 Based Maps. In: Zentai, L., Reyes Nunez, J. (eds) Maps for the Future. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(), vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19522-8_14
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