70 éves a Geodézia és Kartográfia

The issues of the seventieth volume of Geodézia és Kartográfia, the professional journal of Hungarian surveyors and cartographers come out in this year. The journal has been published with this name since 1955. The earlier volumes appeared under the names, Állami Földmérés Közleményei (Review of the National Survey) and Földméréstani Közlemények (Geodetic Review). Up to end 2017, about 3,000 publications appeared in the journal on almost 30,000 pages of 428 issues. Scientific papers amount to some 70% of the full extent. Besides, the issues also published news on professional events. The present paper gives a short review on the changes of the editorial principles and practices, commemorates the colleagues who helped the work of the editors, and remembers the major events of the time of almost two generations. In the second half of the paper, the author presents the editor-in-chiefs of the journal. This position was held first by Dr. Emil Regőczi (between 1949 and 1980) followed by Béla Jagasics (1980–1990). After the political transformation of Hungary, Imre Vörös was the editor-in-chief until 1995; then, Dr. István Joó was appointed, who held the position until his sudden death in 2007. After this, provisionally for half a year, the journal was managed jointly by Dr. Szabolcs Mihály, director of the Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing, and Gábor Horváth, head of department in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. As of January 2008, Dr. Péter Riegler became the editor-in-chief, who held the position until his retirement at end 2016. His successor is László Buga, engineer colonel, since January 2017.