Geological map is a main demonstrator of the achievements in geological research and practice, a principal way through which geologists serve the economic and social development, and a major symbol that reflects the developing degree of a country's geoscientific research, geological sciences and technologies and social civilization. Therefore, governments of different countries and international geoscience organizations have always been attaching great importance to the preparation of geological maps. In recent years, with the social and economic development, the scientific and technological progress, as well as the broadening application range of geosciences, geologists have made remarkable development in geological mapping in terms of the quality and quantity of maps, as well as the developing degree of cartographic techniques and methods. The obvious characteristics of the remarkable development in geological mapping work can be summarized as follows: developing from academic geological maps to more practical ones; developing from single-disciplinary maps to multidisciplinary ones; developing from geological maps at national scale to the ones at intercontinental, global even universal scales; and developing from geological maps of earth surface to that of earth deep interior. In addition, revolution and innovation have taken place in map structure design, presentation patterns and mapping craftsmanship. In order to realize the constant improvement of cartographic and compiling techniques for geological maps, we must consult a wide variety of maps, analyze and study on the developing trend of international map technologies.
LI Tingdong, DING Weicui, ZHENG Ning, LIU Yong, WANG Jun
. Raise the Level of Geological Map Techniques through Consulting a Wide Variety of Maps[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2011
, 13(6)
: 711
-719,726
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DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2011.00711
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