Cybermap: the Map for Cyberspace

Abstract

Map the earth and the moon, why not cyberspaceWith the increasing in the Internet, there is a virtual space termed cyberspace, parallel to geographic world in which we are living. Cartography, as a discipline developed initially for mapping geographic space. It is now challenged to map virtual space. From the point of view of cartography, this paper attempts to define the special mapping of cyberspace by the cybermap. It is the authors' belief that cartographers, with a long standing traditional of mapping geographical space, can make an important contribution to mapping cyberspace. A similar view is held by Plewe (1995, p. 2) who stated that cartographers are unique in their ability display very information in a clear, understandable fashion.