1. Modern cartology has new contents and new grow points in information era.

2. The relationship between GIS and cartology is summarized. It has enough academic foundation and practical significance to use the new former subject-GIS as assistance of cartology teaching.

3. In GIS and cartology, the boundary searching of discrete object group is an important problem. The traditional algorithm is based on vector data.

4. Modern cartology has new contents and new growth points in information era.

5. The author believes that It is imperative for the teaching reform of cartology teaching to undertake comprehensive reform from its content, teaching methods and teaching material construction.

6. Focusing on the appliance of the method of human geography, the appliance of cartology and region analysis runs through this paper.

7. This paper discusses cartographic visualization, including visualization in scientific computing and development of morden cartology.