Personalized Map Symbol Design Mechanism Based on Linguistics

doi:10.11947/j.AGCS.2015.20130758

Abstract

Abstract: The personalization and intelligence of map service ultimately reflects in their symbol design. By establishing conceptual models of personalized map symbols, a theoretical discussion of the symbols is launched from a perspective which both human perceptions and logistic comprehension are considered in this paper, thus to help analyzing the relationship among geographic objects, map symbols and the interpretation of users and exploring the design basis of personalized map symbol. According to some key points such as relevant linguistic theories, the interpretation of the symbol contexts and symbolic statement syntax, design strategies of personalized map symbols is parsed. Thus, methods and processes of personalized map symbol design are proposed accordingly, following by experiments which could verify the hypothesis.

Key words: personalization, symbol design, knowledge, linguistics, semantic meaning, syntax

CLC Number:

P208

LI Wei, CHEN Yufen, QIAN Lingtao, LIU Xiaohan. Personalized Map Symbol Design Mechanism Based on Linguistics[J]. Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica, 2015, 44(3): 323-329.

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