CAN ANALYTICAL CARTOGRAPHY SERVE AS A LINK BETWEEN CARTOGRAPHY AND GISCIENCE?

摘要

In recent years some in the ICA have looked at the stated body of knowledge in GIScience, and have seen a need to link that work closer to the field of Cartography. This is because they see a need to link to such spatial theory and utilize it in the field of Cartography. It turns out that since the 1960s Tobler and many colleagues have developed the area of Analytical Cartography which includes many of these topics in spatial science. During the 1990s Goodchild and colleagues led an effort to expand the conceptual base of GIS into what is now called GIScience. After many years of development they have published a Body of Knowledge for GIScience. This paper will explore these areas and identify commonalities between them. This will form a basis for the discussion of how Analytical Cartography can serve as a vital link between the fields of Cartography and GIScience that some in the ICA see as a way of enhancing the field of Cartography and facilitating cooperation between the two fields in the future.