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Ferdinand Jan Ormeling Jr. (Utrecht, 20 November 1942) (mainly known as Ferjan Ormeling) is a Dutch cartographer. [1] He is the son of the well known cartographer Ferdinand Jan Ormeling Sr.
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Ferdinand Jan Ormeling Jr. (Utrecht, 20 November 1942) (mainly known as Ferjan Ormeling) is a Dutch cartographer. [1] He is the son of the well known cartographer Ferdinand Jan Ormeling Sr.
Ferjan Ormeling lived in The Hague until he was six years old. His parents Ferdinand Jan Ormeling Sr. and K.J. (Ina) ten Hoopen were both geographers. In 1948 the family moved to Java, where his father set up the Geographical Institute of Batavia. In 1961 Ferjan Jr. went to study geography at the University of Groningen. He attended lectures by Willem Frederik Hermans, among others. During his entire study period, Ferjan worked at J.B. Wolters at the Bosatlas, of which his father had meanwhile become editor-in-chief. In 1968 he married, in 1971 and 1973 a son and a daughter were born. After graduating in 1969, he went to work at the Utrecht University under Professor Cornelis Koeman, with whom he had attended secondary courses. On June 3, 1983, he received his doctorate with a thesis on the inclusion of geographical names in minority languages on topographical maps. [2] Promoters were Cornelis Koeman and Dick Blok.
From 1985 to 2009 Prof. Dr. Ormeling was professor of cartography at Utrecht University. He gave lectures on atlas cartography, environmental mapping, cartographic theory, historical cartography, map editing and map production. As the motor of one of the few cartography courses in the Netherlands, he was the figurehead of cartography in the Netherlands for more than two decades. Among other things, he was concerned with the question of how thematic maps should be designed in order to achieve the best possible transfer of information. He strongly criticized the maps in government reports (and the frequent lack of maps in them). Those bad maps would stand in the way of good decision-making by, for example, the House of Representatives. In his inaugural address entitled Beeldvorming (Conceptualization) in April 1986, Ormeling stated: The description of the map material is a lithany, a succession of cartographic errors, misunderstanding and ignorance.
He has been a member of the board of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kartografie (Netherlands Cartographic Association) since 1975, as vice-chairman from 1983 and as chairman from 1995 to 1997, after which he left the board. In 2001 he was made an honorary member. He is also always a member of the editorial board of the Kartografisch tijdschrift (Cartographic journal), from 1983 as editor-in-chief.
Ormeling chairs the Foreign Geographical Names working group of the Dutch Language Union, which advises on the spelling of the names concerned in Dutch. He is also chairman of the Advisory Committee on Geographical Names in the Netherlands. This committee provides advice to governments, solicited or unsolicited, about geographical names in the Netherlands, such as water names, place names, field names or names of works of art.
From 1999 to 2007 he was Secretary-General and Treasurer of the International Cartographic Association.
In 2009 he was awarded the Gold Carl Mannerfelt Medal, the highest award in cartography, by the International Cartographic Association for his scientific achievements. On May 10, 2013, he received an Honorary degree from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. [3] On May 7, 2015, he received an honorary degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. [4] From August 8–16, 2017, he was the President-elect of the 11th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in New York City. On June 24, 2022, in Berlin, he received the gold Mercator medal for special services to cartography from the chairman of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kartographie. [5]
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Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Wikipedia article at Ferjan Ormeling; see its history for attribution.
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