In view of the elaboration on theoretical issues of cartography put forward at homeand abroad, this paper proposes that map projection, cartographic generalization andcartographic symbolic system could be the basic theories of 本文针对当前国内外有关地图制图学理论问题的阐述,提出地图投影、图综合和地图符号系统是地图制图学的基础理论;而信息理论等新兴学科的应用是地图制图学的应用理论。
cartographic
[ adj ] of or relating to the making of maps or charts <adj.pert>
Cartographic \Car`to*graph"ic\, Cartographical \Car`to*graph"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to cartography.
On its state maps, for example, Raven's cartographic team uses film with a removable emulsion, peeling away the surface coating between each set of contour lines and adding a band of color.