Presence of school cartography in Erwin Raisz’s lifework

Abstract

ABSTRACT During the twentieth century, Erwin Raisz researched and worked on diverse cartographic areas: he developed the physiographic method for the representation of landforms, cartograms for data representation, a new map projection, etc. The cartographic community does not usually relate his name to school cartography, however, he made numerous works that were used in schools because of its high intrinsic educational value. The current paper gives a general and brief background on those works developed by Raisz and used by the teachers not only in schools of the United States, but of other countries too. His innumerable maps were and are examples of how cartography can be the main source of didactic tools in schools and how these tools can stimulate the pupils’ interest towards maps.