In 1885, Hübl moved to the Institute for Military Geography in Vienna, where he was responsible for reproduction and printing of Austrian maps. There he optimized several techniques in the fields of lithography, color photography and photogrammetry, and in 1910 established a department of photogrammetry at the institute. In 1909 he introduced offset printing to Austria. He retired from military service in 1913, and in 1916–1918 headed the Institute for Military Geography. In 1918 he received an honorary doctorate from the TU Wien. Later, from 1920 to 1924, he worked in Brazil, popularizing photogrammetry there and helping establish the Brazilian Cartographic Institute.
