The journal of the Cartographic society of the Slovak Republic

The journal of the Cartographic Society

of the Slovak Republic

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Otakar ČERBA

Analysis of definitions of concept “map”

Čerba, O.: Analysis of definitions of concept “map”. Kartografické listy, 2011, 19, 5 figs., 12 refs.

Abstract: Cartographic communication between experts as well as systems is very complicated at this time. The domain ontologies represent a tool to improve the communication on the basis of a description of essential cartographic concepts. This paper shows the prototype (early version) of ontology processed the selected definitions of the concept “map”.

Keywords: definition, map, domain ontology, reasoning, cartographic communication