Abstract
Based on a paper presented to the 47th ANZAAS conference, this article reviews the coordination of geologists and cartographers in sharing the responsibility for selecting appropriate symbolic languages in the deSign of geological maps. The most important criterion is the user's ability to analyse the map, but few users in fact have much background in either geology or cartography. The authors point to the need for map makers to take a hard look at the actual needs of map users and the psychology of symbol and colour perception, at the methods for organizing geological information and the limits to its storage and availability in maps, at possible substitutes for maps including computer products, and at attitudes of management and authors towards map production and the consumer.
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