Abstract
The Internet can provide interactive display and multimedia functions for digital maps and remotely sensed imagery. One major problem for the development of Internet mapping facilities is information overload. It is a challenge for the cartographic community to make Internet mapping accessible to users and to help users adapt cartographic concepts and rules to their web mapping applications at the same time. This chapter also introduces a possible solution by adopting software agents in the architecture of Internet mapping facilities. In contrast to a traditional expert systems approach, the use of software agents emphasizes that their knowledge bases are located in hundreds of distributed small agent programs instead of a single huge omnipotent computer machine. The design of an intelligent software agent can facilitate the establishment of distributed cartography knowledge bases (CKB), which can help map users to access/distribute/exchange different cartographic rules, map symbols, color schemes, and design layouts through the Internet.
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