Automatic Construction Mechanism of Thematic Symbol under the Aspect of Semiotics
ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9
Authors
1Fei, Z.; 2Du, Q.; 3Ming, M.
1YUNNAN UNIVERSITY Email: vwobai@163.com
2SCHOOL OF RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, WUHAN UNIVERSI Email: qydu@whu.edu.cn
3YUNNAN UNIVERSITY Email: mengming586@sina.com
Abstract
As an important type of map, thematic map is still in its initial research stage due to its characteristic of various type, complicated representation and data dependency problems. Since research for thematic cartography is still in infancy so far, there is no unified understanding and development method about its construction theory. This paper focuses on the smart construction model of thematic map, and proposes the following three contents: the first is the inner structure and construction process of thematic map, including a semiotic model of thematic cartography according to the analysis of thematic map symbol system based semeiology, which is divided into three aspects: phonetics, semantics and syntax. The second is thematic cartographic model oriented smart construction of thematic map based on segmentation research and description of thematic symbol and the syntactic pattern. Finally, the smart construction mechanism is established based thematic map services, and its concept and schema is discussed, such as dynamic web thematic map services aggregation, etc.
Keywords
Syntax; Thematic map; Semiotics