顾及心象地图特征的导航电子地图设计

Design of navigation digital map based on character of mental map

随着移动设备及基于位置的服务技术的出现,这对地图设计与地理信息可视化提出了新的挑战,地图越来越多地显示在手持式信息设备的小屏幕上,服务于导航的电子地图是这类移动地图中的典型代表。导航电子地图的设计不仅要考虑它作为移动地图的特点,还要顾及它的主要作用是用于导航。本文主要顾及心象地图的4个特征:不完整性、变形性、差异性和动态交互性,认为导航电子地图的设计应制作出接近用户心象地图的地图,并总结出了相应的设计原则和方法。

With the development of mobile devices and 1ocation-based service,there is a new challenge to the design of map and visualization of geographic information.The map is often displayed on small display of hand held devices,and navigation digital map is a typical type in mobile map.In the design of navigation digital map,we consider not only the character that it is mobile map,but also its function on navigating.Based on four characters of mental map,the paper thinks that we should design navigation digital map to mental map of user,and summarizes some design principles and methods in navigation digital map.