Handling the relationship between features in automatic mapping

Map presentation of geographical information based on GIS is an urgent problem lying in current GIS and cartography. Handling of features' relationship is the key in automatic-mapping. However, the discover and disposal of spatial conflict is the lowest degree of automation in cartography. A lot of work is still in handwork. After analyzing the data in the scale of 1:50,000 and 1:250,000, this article summarizes the relationship of cartographic features as overlapping-relation, attachment-relation and collision-relation. Combined with the data, the article put forward the method which is related to each of relationship.