隨著數位化中文資料的快速成長，運用電腦高速檢索的能力，大幅度地提高了中文資料處理的生產力。運用建立在地理資訊科技之上的電子地圖或數位地圖典藏中之地名查詢系統進行地名檢索，能夠在很短的時間內搜尋非常大量的文獻，改變了許多人過去使用地圖集或紙圖檢索地名的習慣。然而，不同時期個人電腦對中文處理的能力與方式，卻影響/衝擊著中文地名檢索的處理方式。中文地名檢索的難題，有相當大一部分源自中文本身的特性。本研究嘗試在當前電腦對中文處理之發展過程的脈絡中，探討中文地名檢索與漢字規範過程間的問題，並兼及兩岸漢字規範過程對地名檢索的影響。
There has been significant progress in modern personal computer system which will satisfy the user’s requirements in Chinese processing begins to evolve. Developments in personal computers and standards of Chinese character set made it possible to streamline Chinese processing operations and to change the way of retrieving Chinese place-names. To retrieve Chinese place-name between simplified and traditional Chinese is a very complicated subject in building archive system for digital map collection, and one of the important keys of a user-friendly system. The purpose of this study is to examine the issues related to retrieve Chinese place-name in the broader context of a more pluralistic and diverse standardization of Chinese characters.
