Developing and Analyzing an Information System for Choropleth Maps

开发和分析等值线图信息系统

• 批准号: 8706847
• 负责人: Terry Slocum
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-08-01 至 1990-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8706847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Analyzing; Information; System; Choropleth

Professor Slocum will explore the ways computer-generated maps can communicate geographic information to map users in ways that printed maps cannot. He will first develop an information-oriented software system that uses separate maps to portray cartographic information, gives the user access to the data upon which maps are based, and enables the user selectively to view any of the data classes used to make each map. He will then conduct an evaluation of the software by both cartographically experienced and cartographically naive map users. Computer generation offers many mapping options that are difficult or impossible to achieve with hardcopy maps. Slocum's research will increase our understanding of how users interpret one of the most commonly used mapping techniques. His work will enable cartographers to design more effective maps and geographic information systems.

斯洛库姆教授将探索计算机生成的地图如何以印刷地图无法做到的方式向地图用户传达地理信息。 他将首先开发一个面向信息的软件系统，该系统使用单独的地图来描绘制图信息，使用户能够访问地图所基于的数据，并使用户能够有选择地查看用于制作每张地图的任何数据类。 然后，他将由经验丰富的地图用户和不懂制图的地图用户对软件进行评估。 计算机生成提供了许多用硬拷贝地图很难或不可能实现的绘图选项。 斯洛库姆的研究将加深我们对用户如何解释最常用的地图技术之一的理解。 他的工作将使制图师能够设计更有效的地图和地理信息系统。