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There are also other methods which can be used. The best way is using cartographical
literature and combined these results with interview methods. Methods strictly depend on
the size of knowledge base and type of acquired cartographical knowledge. One intelligent
system is not possible due to amount of rules and facts, which should be involved into
database.
education
experience
intuition
data
expertise knowledge
information
decision making
action
Fig. 3. The bases of expertise knowledge and expert decision making
3.2 Evaluation of cartographic functionality in GIS software
Starting point for design intelligent system was previous research at Palacký University in
2009 (Brus et al., 2010). This research compared possibilities of creation thematic map in
various GIS software. Research was carried out to search the conditions and the
possibilities of map making process in GIS software. The special evaluation method
named “CartoEvaluation” has been proposed for finding out the GIS software
cartography potential. New evaluation method is based on Goal-Question-Metric method.
More than 13 GIS software of commercial production and Open Source Software (Czech
and world-wide) were evaluated under this method. The evaluation results are
summarized into complex tables and accessible at web pages of the scientific project
(Dobesova, 2009).
Fig. 4. The part of evaluation table for evaluation of color scheme in GIS software
