It seems that some basic tasks, common to all cartography, may in the future be largely automated, and that the volume of maps produced in a given time will be increased while the cost is reduced.

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Tobler's paper "Automation and Cartography" is often pointed to as the first peer-reviewed literature discussing using computers to aid in cartography.

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