The activity and services of the MoD Mapping Company

Abstract

As of January 2001, the military mapping tasks are implemented by two independent military organisations. The basic mission of the Mapping Service of the Hungarian Defence Forces is to plan and to have implemented basic government mapping tasks and works in the responsibility of the minister of defence as well as doing state jobs in its sphere of authority. The basic mission of MoD Mapping Company is to implement and have implemented state basic tasks and works in the responsibility of the minister of defence as well as custody, handling and providing state base data and maps. Topographic maps belong to the most important products of military mapping products. The classification of these maps were 'secret' until 1992, having made the civilian utilisation of them difficult to a great extent. This restriction has been fully lifted by now, so anyone can have free access to military topographic maps. Military mapping has been dealing with digital elaboration of maps since the early 1980's. The DTA-200, Digital Topographic Database at 1:200,000 scale was completed in the second half of the 1980's, followed by the 10*10 and a 50*50 m grid density Digital Elevation Models (DDM-10 and DDM-50, respectively. Our most significant work, DTA-50 Digital Mapping Database, is produced on the basis of the 1:50,000 scale topographic maps.