COMMUNICATING GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION BY MEANS DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS

Abstract

Since ancient times, people have devised cognitive artifacts to extend memory and ease information communication and processing. Among them are graphics, which use elements and the spatial relations among them to represent worlds that are actually or metaphorically spatial. Communicating geospatial information by means digital cartography and GIS through Maps as a decision making tools have improved in the last two decade. Maps schematize the real world in that they are two-dimensional, they omit information, they regularize, they use inconsistent scale and perspective, and they exaggerate, fantasize, and carry messages. The paper reviews the communicating Geographic Data, digital Cartographic Communication Process or model, Map Design, and Cartographic Design Elements as a tool for communication. Collectively, create a good map that successfully communicates geographic information helps the user to interpret for informed decision making.