Abstract:As food plays an important role in people''s daily lives, a food map showing the geographical distribution of restaurants in a city is of great social value. Social media has covered every aspect of people''s lives; therefore, social media data provides a wealth of data to support automatic cartography. This work proposes an automatic generation method for urban food maps driven by social media data, integrating machine learning and cartographic algorithms to realize the intelligent generation of stylized urban food maps. A visualization system of urban food maps has been developed, which is applied to four cities, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Chongqing, and Chengdu, for case studies. The results show the effectiveness and good visual expressiveness of our method in presenting urban cuisine for cities.