城市人口地图编制指导思想、原则及指标体系

城市人口地图是以城市为基本制图单元的人口地图。编制城市人口地图应遵循以下指导思想:城市是国家经济力量的主体.是独特的经济地域;城市是国家高知识密集地区和精神文明的重要载体;城市对提高人口文化素质具有重要战略意义。城市人口地图的编制原则为以下几方面:科学性、实用性与艺术性相结合;提高地图容量,增加载负量,突出差别;疏密适中,取舍有度;图面的配置合理,色彩协调;精益求精、一丝不苟。城市人口地图编制中应建立科学的指标体系。

THE GUIDING IDEOLOGY, PRINCIPLES AND INDEX SYSTEM IN THE MAKING OF URBAN POPULATION MAPS

The article aims at exploring the guiding ideology, principles and selection of index system in the making of urban population maps in China, with Tianjin urban population map as an illustrative example. The article holds that a city is the chief embodiment of a country's economic development, and therefore a special economic region. The city bears the largest collection of a country's high-level science and technology, and it is a remarkable symbol of a country's ideological progress. Furthermore, the city plays a strategic role in improving the cultural quality of a nation. These are the guiding ideology in the making of urban population map. The author thinks that the followings should be the principles underlying the making of urban population maps: a combination of scientific, pragmatic and artistic quality, increasing the capacity of map, and a proper distribution, etc. In the process of map making, the dialectical relationship of map legend and scale system, natural and humane factors, more grades and less grade differential, etc.should all be taken into consideration.