Design and Implementation of Web-based Census Cartography System: Design and Implementation of Web-based Census Cartography System

According to the business requirement of National State Statistics Bureau in the filed of census cartography,design of web-based census cartography system is discussed from different aspects such as system architect,feature request and so on in this paper.Key technical problems like enumeration area demarcation,online census mapping and address coding are detailed and solved based on recent web mapping technology.The main features of the system are identified as generation of background maps,interactive markup of point,line and area features,map audition,map printing and permission control.It can fulfill the requirements of enumeration area demarcation,data acquisition to buildings as well as other features during prophase work of census.The deployment solution and implementation of the system is also discussed in the end of the paper.Web-based census cartography system can guarantee the feasibility of fully-digitized census from the technical perspective effectively.Digital spatially-referenced population framework which is completely covered and detailed at enumeration area level can be constructed in order to form One Population Map for the whole country with the technology.It will improve the accuracy and scientificalness of census cartography and promote the construction,share and updating of basic population geographical information resources if it is applied in the 6th census of China.