Developing and Analyzing an Information System for Choropleth Maps

斯洛克姆教授将探索计算机生成的地图如何 将地理信息以打印的方式传达给地图用户， 地图不能。 他将首先开发一个面向信息的软件 使用单独的地图来描绘制图信息的系统， 使用户能够访问地图所基于的数据，以及 使用户能够选择性地查看用于 制作每一张地图。 然后，他将通过以下方式对软件进行评估 既有制图经验丰富的地图用户，也有制图经验不足的地图用户。 计算机生成提供了许多困难的映射选项 或者是无法用硬拷贝地图实现的。 斯洛克姆的研究 增加我们对用户如何解释一个最重要的 常用的绘图技术。 他的工作将使制图师 设计更有效的地图和地理信息系统。

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.