Methodology for Generating a Low Cost Tourist Map ping applied to Small Brazilian Municipalities

摘要

This paper presents a type of project developed during the course of cartographic engineer of the Federal University of Pernambuco - Brazil, in a campaign extension the academic communities. The purpose is providing inexpensive solutions of mapping to a community and municipalities. The work shows a tourist map generated with GPS surveying and the conveying of tourist spatial data by means maps. For community the message with this works is encourage the use of map like an essential mechanism to promote the region's tourist attractions. Consequently increasing the interest and encouraging the tourist in their choice of visiting the location and using the services linked to the activity. The methodology applied is very simple : firstly, cartographic data collection ; choice of mapping method based on existing data ; the next step is an analysis is to prepare the spatial data; planning field survey, data classification of existing tourist attraction in the municipality according to the standards of Embratur (Tourism National Ministry) ; choice of graphic variables to be used to the map graphical print and web publishing; choice of scale printing, choice the visualization process and finally, test the graphic variables to impression version and display monitor. One of the main difficulties in this kind of project in Brazil it is the lack of base maps. It is necessary to construction all de cartographic data or using the base maps with unknown quality or old maps with more than forty years.