Design and Implementation of Cartography Website

With the development and application of modern science and technology, especially computer and Internet technology, the old maps bloom and are becoming more and more important in science and our every day life.In order to spread cartographic knowledge,enhance understanding and application of maps and adapt to the requirement of education on networks, we built the specialized "cartography website" which is now on test run on the campus networks.This paper introduces the main content, the function design and the building method of cartography website, and makes a tentative research on the design and realization of cartography website and webmaps.Cartography website is a professional academic one with function of education and entertainment to spread cartographic knowledge.So its design adheres to the principles of combining information with interest, and combining speciality with popularity.The content of the cartography website mainly includes walking in maps, webmaps, application of maps, digital earth, English columns, academic articles, news and interesting hearsay about maps, etc.Cartography website is tastefully designed, which has both scientific contents and abundant information and practical functions.Its principal functions include the interactive learning function of the multimedia cartographic knowledge, the browse function of interesting hearsay about maps and common information, the query function of webmaps and the mutual search function of map database.In order to realize the above functions preferably we settled the following questions technically: the combination of art with practicality in webpage design, the balance between visual impression and loading speed of webpages, the connection and use of webmaps, and the application of multimedia website technology.