外文翻译在网络地理信息系统环境中地图作用.docxVIP

附录 附录1 外文文献原文 The role of the map in a Web-GIS environment Menno-Jan Kraak International Institute of Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation, Department of GeoInformation Processing, PO Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands(e-mail:  HYPERLINK mailto:kraak@itc.nl kraak@itc.nl) Abstract. The World Wide Web has changed the perspective on the role that maps can play. Their traditional function remains, e.g. to represent an abstraction of a selected part of reality to offer insight into geospatial patterns and relations. Additionally the map can be an important part of a search engine,