The Map Machine
Sensing Device
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Spacifications from
Map Contract
sufficient to try other methods, for instance, expert systems. The key to
the problem may be found one level higher: only after having sufficiently
analyzed how we solve certain problems can we then look for appropriate
methods or develop them.
The instructions to a draftsman or operator are relatively concise, they
may even be ambiguous and incomplete, assuming that there is enough
knowledge and common sense to solve the problem. On the other hand, for a
computer to perform the same task requires a great deal more
instructions, and if we assume knowledge is present, then it has to be put
into the machine at an earlier stage.
Artificial Intelligence and the Map Machine
How do we gain insight into the mental faculties of the photogrammetrist
and cartographer in order to derive the map making theory? Artificial
intelligence deals with the fundamental nature of mind, as physics is
concerned with the fundamental nature of matter and energy (Newell). On a
more mundane level, Rich defines artificial intelligence as the study of
how to make computers do things at which, at the moment, people are
better (Rich(83)).
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