With honorary degrees from Eötvös Lorand Technical University (Budapest 2013) and Aristoteles University (Thessaloniki 2015), Dr F.J. (Ferjan) Ormeling (1942-2025) was a well-known cartographer who specialised in atlas cartography and toponymy at Utrecht University. He served the International Cartographic Association as secretary general in 1999-2007. Since 2003, he focused on the history of cartography of Indonesia. Part of his youth was spent at the premises of the Topographical Survey in Jakarta, where his father was director of the Geographical Institute. He regularly visited Indonesia since 1980 and cooperated with scholars from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and Badan Informasi Geospasial in Cibinung. He organised toponymy courses worldwide, on behalf of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN).

Ferjan Ormeling read human geography, history, and cartography at Groningen and Utrecht Universities. As a member of the University of Amsterdam Explokart research team since 2007, his other historical focus was the development of thematic cartography of the Netherlands. From 2000 to 2021, he has led the editorial board of the historical-cartographic journal Caert Thresoor . In 2005 he published Biografie van de Bosatlas , a history of the genesis of the major school atlas in the Netherlands. Dr P.P.W.J.

(Paul) van den Brink studied history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and was a university lecturer at the Historical Cartographic Research Programme Explokart of Utrecht University from 1986 to 2012. From 2013, Paul van den Brink has been a historical cartographer at the Faculty of Geosciences of Utrecht University. His research focuses on Dutch institutional cartography of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the cartographic publications of the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society (KNAG), and the tourist and consumer cartography of the Netherlands and the Netherlands East Indies up to 1945. Among his acclaimed book publications in these fields is Dienstbare kaarten: een cartografische geschiedenis van het Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap en het Tijdschrift, 1873-1966 (2010), on the cartographic history of the KNAG and its Periodical .