Automated Cartography in a Bush of Ghosts

摘要

Research into automated cartography has been going on for about fifty years, and it is interesting to see how the techniques and methodologies have changed during that time. That richness in variety, and the exciting breadth of cognate disciplines drawn into this area of research reflects 1) the challenges of modeling the art and science of cartography, and 2) the changing way in which we use maps. Some of our ideas have foundered but this has always led to new innovations and the lateral application of new methodologies. This talk will review the past as a way of explaining current thinking and argue that cartography has much to do with reasoning about space and that "design is all about making sense of things." Perhaps these should be the goals of automated cartography?