Geographic Visualization of Pan-Map with the Context of Ternary Spaces

The information and communication technology(ICT)era advances the huge changes of map objects and visualization manners, comparing with traditional maps, which challenges the field of cartographic visualization, either in theory or in technique. This paper provides the pan-map concept and its characteristics, and constructs the dimension system of pan-map visualization. Visualization dimension of pan-map gives significant expansion of cartographic theory framework. Eleven visualization dimensions are listed and six visualization dimensions are displayed in detail. With two cases, the combination and connection of visualization dimensions are explained to illustrate the analysis and application of visualization dimensions.