The Research on Design of Tourist Map Website
WU Zenghong, CHEN Yufen

解放军信息工程大学 测绘学院， 郑州 450052

Abstract

Owing to the rapid development of tourism and extensive application of the tourist web maps, tourist map websites are being promoted greatly, and will have a broad prospect of application. But currently the design of tourist map websites is also in a very disordered condition and a lack of theoretic guidence, hence the further development is restricted. Firstly this paper sums up the main problems existing in tourist map websites after analyzing many famous ones at home and abroad. Then it discusses the characteristics of tourist map websites, and classifies the websites according to the differences in the theme of tourist map websites and the functions of tourist web maps, after that, sums up the designing of different kinds of map websites. Finally, the authors identify the design principles of tourist map websites, and complete the design of the Henan tourist map websites according to the above principles.
Keywords: tourist map website; tourist web map; design principle; map website designing