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Track: Cartography and Map Production
Doug Atkinson
The University of Georgia
Chicopee Complex Ste 2076 1180 E Broad St
Athens, GA 30602-5418
Telephone: 706-542-6236
Fax: 706-542-6535
E-mail: atkinson@itos.uga.edu
Anita Russo, Erik Shepard
Dynamically Composing and Generating Quality Cartographic Products
Defining Issue: Two important characteristics of printed cartographic products are adherence to cartographic standards and readability of symbolization. A GIS application should give users, regardless of their knowledge of map design principles, the opportunity to create maps quickly and easily with these characteristics. GIS Solution: Information Technology Outreach Services at the University of Georgia has developed the Georgia 100 GIS which, among other things, facilitates the creation of maps that are complete, correct, and readable. Methodology: With the help of the Georgia 100's user-friendly GUI, the user sets the map extent and selects the layers to be displayed on the screen. Upon choosing to capture the displayed layers as the body of the map, the user is queried for a title. Following this, the map is composed with no further input from the user. All other features, such as legend, index map, and scale bar are either predefined or automatically determined based on what the user had drawn
on the screen. Software: The application module was written in ARC Macro Language and runs under ArcInfo and ARCPLOT. The AML watchfile command is used to capture the user controlled portion of the map. The purpose of this paper is to present the method and rationale used by the Georgia 100 GIS to allow users to dynamically compose, capture, and generate quality map products.
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