Report to Ron Furness

Chair, ICA Commission on Marine Cartography

(ICA Conference 2001)

^To

^{Ron Furness}

^{Chairman ICA Commission on Marine Cartography}

^{Dear Ron,}

^{I was happy to hear, when I read your letter, that Michel Huet at the IHB was interested in our work. But I have not got an email or a letter from him yet.}

^{I can report to you and to him too that we completed our work on the English/Hungarian version of IHO SP "Standardization of Undersea Feature Names" and I send you a copy of it. There are some parts, I think, that need some corrections. These are for example the list of the counties..., and what about the landlocked countries, like Hungary is..., end so on. Another one: there is a problem with the term "sill" too. The referenced book speaks about "sill depth" (that is some kinds of "saddle"), so the definition is different from the original one.}

^{Help me please to complete my work, and I will send you the films to print it.}

^{As I mentioned earlier, I spoke to Ervin Földi, the leader of the Hungarian Board on Geographical Names, who promised me to keep a discussion of our task to get an official agreement for publication. There was an official meeting at the end of March this year and I got that agreement. All the problems, that occurred, have solved.}

^{My young friend, András Dutkó worked hard this year, but he have not completed his CD on the Multilingual Gazetteer of the Seas and Undersea Features yet.}

^{But you can look for some parts of his work on Internet:}

^{http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/doktoran/dutko/a.htm}

^{when you can find an Index which will help you.}

^{I wish you and all the members of ICA Commission on Marine Cartography nice weather and succesful meeting in Beijing}

^{Mátyás Márton}