One of the major current thrust areas for computer software development is artificial intelligence and particularly expert systems. Several attempts have been made to implement cartographic design expert systems. None of these, however, can either understand why particular decisions are reached, or explain the reasoning to the user. This self-knowledge is one of the principle properties of any expert system and so it is doubtful whether any of the systems reported to date deserve the epithet "expert". This omission is not the fault of the system developers, but is caused by a lack of any systematised and accepted methodology for cartographic assessment. The cartographic community is urged to address this problem expeditiously.
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