Cartographic communication in function of informational and educational communication

Abstract

The process of cartographic communication has interdisciplinary character and includes different types of information. It includes analyses of the content, shape, form, modus and the instrument of communication of the knowledge about phenomena and processes of geospace, research of the meaning of messages, modules and effects of their reception. Depending on the level of society development and people’s way of living, the communication process has differed - ways of realization, comprehension and interpretation. Modern development of communicational technology, i.e. of the instruments of modern communication, has determined a number of different types and ways of communication. This enabled faster and more intense production and reproduction of information. By development of the computer network and virtual communication, a communicational practice became more intensive and faster. A form of cartographic communication in the function of informational and educational communication is enabled by forming a system of signs through which the information, as a product of consciences, is objectified as a message and a characteristic of a subjects of communication who produce, communicate and use those information.