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process of machine inference. Protégé program is often used for building of ontology.
Protégé allows the definition in the language OWL-DL. This language is currently the most
commonly used ontological language. The cartography is a very extensiveness discipline.
From that fact, two methods were chosen from thematic cartography - choropleth method
(area quantitative method) and diagram maps (cartodiagram) for the pilot stage of scientific
research. Built ontology was created the necessary basis for an intelligent system that
supported the users in the creation of the cartography correct maps.
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Fig. 5. The position of cartographic expert system in computer science
4.1 Current state of the cartographical ontologies
Well-known ontology can be found in literature and on websites for various fields of study,
e.g. Protégé Ontologies Library. As a starting point, we tried to find some related works for
cartography, geography, GIS and related sciences. Main concepts found in related works in
the field of ontology for GIS data operability (Stanimirovic, 2010). GeoSpatial semantic web
and geo-ontology should be also taken into consideration when designing a cartographical
ontology.
After examination of accessible ontologies on the web and other ontological repository,
we came to this conclusion: Only a few particular examples of domain ontology exist in
the related field. There is no complex ontology which takes into consideration all aspects
