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The project of new century version of the National Huge Atlas of the People’s Republic of China has an important achievement that is the National General Atlas of China. Moreover, different provincial common geographic maps are main content of the National General Atlas of China. Database construction and map compilation of different common provincial geographic maps abide by the design idea of mapping after establishing database, make full use of the national 1:1000 000 fundamental geographic information database, and adopt the technology of automatic illustrated based on database. This paper mainly introduces the achievement form of different provincial common geographic maps, compiled technical route, process flow and key technology, etc.
Taking the new century edition of the national general atlas of China for example.
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Wang, G., Zhou, W. (2017). Database Construction and Map Compilation of Provincial Common Geographic Maps. In: Yuan, H., Geng, J., Bian, F. (eds) Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence. GRMSE 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 699. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3969-0_49
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