A research on "Map literacy" and "Spatial cognition" of rural people in Quang Nam Province

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This paper presents the research on the awareness and capabilities regarding “Map literacy” and “Spatial cognition” of rural people in Quang Nam province.The survey methods by using investigation questionnaire and “Mental map”, of which 71 rural people are asked to collect the data. From the interview results of rural people, we identified that they have a lot of information about the natural environment area. However, they could not draw out this information on the map. We gather from these results to know that the rural people do not have much “Spatial literacy” and not enough \"Spatial cognition”.The evaluation is used for the implementation of community GIS and compiling a \"Mental map GIS\" system to serve for a training course in map skills for rural people.