Edutainment in cartography

Zentai, László and Dombóvári, Eszter (2005) Edutainment in cartography. In: Internet based Cartographic Teaching and Learning: Atlases, Map Use, and Visual Analytics: Joint ICA Commissions Seminar, 2005.07.06-2005.07.08., Madrid, Spanyolország.

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Abstract

Edutainment is a mixture of education and entertainment. In the software industry edutainment was very popular in the 80’s and the first part of the 90’s when the graphic capabilities of PC-s were very limited. The early computer games were based on textual information. From the second part of the 80’s low resolution pictures became a part of a computer game, but that was still quite far from the so called multimedia. As the CPUs and graphic cards became more powerful computer games started to develop rapidly. Nowadays the 3D, the virtual reality, the real time animation and the high quality sound are the essential parts of computer games. The computer games in edutainment are nearly totally disappeared. In the last some years the internet games turned to be more popular: the relatively low bandwidth and the lack of web multimedia standards gave new opportunities for the edutainment in this environment. Cartography can profit form this revival because maps are very popular content of the web.

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