Compared with common GIS, multi-touch interaction pattern without mouse and keyboard, and the change of screen space, etc. make the GIS combined with multi- touch technology acquire many new characteristics.
(l) Multi-touch GIS completely changes the mouse + keyboard + windows interaction pattern, one of the new patterns is multi-touch + soft keyboard + GIS. Users no longer need to undergo the conversion process from brain thinking to mouse movement, then to screen operation. And the map display space is expanded greatly. Consequently, map interface comes to be the real interactive interface.