Cartographic language is a scientific system which is made up of map symbols. Cartographic language has the characteristics of nature languages. It also has its own characters. Cartographic language can describe the general characters of geo- objects, and it also can express the dynamic and temporal characters via multi-media expressional mechanism of sounds, cartoons, images and virtual realization etc. This paper introduced the changes of cartographic language that were influenced by GIS technologies. The map symbols definition was expounded by analyzing the new characters in the contemporar...
