Identificación y propuesta de criterios para mejorar la comunicación de contenidos ambientales en cartografía de planificación urbana: ejemplos andaluces

Abstract

The growing citizen's demand to become involved in questions regarding city and land-use planning require paying attention to the cartography as a key and fundamental element in the communication process. In this regard, the main aim of this research has been to identify and propose a set of criteria in order to enhance the communicative capacity of urban planning maps, by facilitating their lecture and compression. In order to respond to the above, first a bibliographic review was performed to understand the cartographic language and identify which criteria could improve the cartographic communication aspect. Finally, this syntax or cartographic language (geometric dimensions, visual variables and perceptive properties) was applied to a specific environmental information of cartography of urban planning with the intention to propose the most adequate way from a communicative point of view.