关键词: 旅游地图, 地图信息, 制图方法

Abstract: In this paper. many tourist maps which are available presently in the market has been compared. According to the problems found in such comparison. the approaches to improve the quality of tourist mapping in China have been discussed.(1) The concept should be up dated to satisfy new requirements.(2) Following the developing trend of modern sciences, the combination of specialization and integration should be adopted. Tourist mapping studies combine the knowledges from tourism, geography and cartography, and such studies are newly developed.(3) The designer of tourist maps not only should have aesthetic understandings and the ability to express them, but also should combine sciences and arts. The design should be improved according to the knowledges from different disciplines.Based on the experience from the exercises of compiling the ″ Tourist Atlas of Beijing″ and the ″ Tourist map of Beidaihe″, specific methods to improve the quality of tourist mapping were proposed:(1) The contents of the maps should be determined according to the tourist requirements.(2) The Landscapes should be reflected by using geographical methods.(3) Cartographic information communication theory should be used in the designing of the maps.(4) New techniques should be adopted in the compiling and printing of the maps.The above discussed methods will be helpful to the improvement of the quality of tourist mapping.

Key words: tourist map, cartographic information, mapping method