Semantic Driven Geographic Conceptual Modeling Environment Based On Icons

There are many problems in conceptual modeling process, such as sharing difficulty in modeling conception, complexity of modeling method, difficulty in cooperative modeling by experts from different domains, and so on. To solve those problems, by establishing expression rules of metadata and semantics of geographical models, introductive geographical modeling approaches is put forward here to realize expression and construction of geographical conceptual models interactively. And a semantic driven geographical conceptual modeling environment based on icons is provided. By the experiments, it has shown that our research is a new attempt for geographic conceptual modeling, and it provides a convenient and visualized modeling method for experts in multi-domain of geographic field.