Geographic information data element symbol positioning method and device

The invention discloses a geographic information data element symbol positioning method and device, and solves the problems of low conversion efficiency and high cost of symbols of different standards in the prior art. The geographic information data element symbol positioning method comprises the following steps: acquiring a symbol data cluster of a target ground object, and decomposing the data cluster into multiple groups of primitive data; the primitive data comprises a positioning primitive identifier; determining a positioning primitive of the symbol data cluster in the multiple groups of primitive data; and determining the display position of the symbol by taking the set position on the positioning primitive as a positioning point. According to the method, conversion is carried out in a full-automatic mode based on symbol description decomposition, unification of achievements of various different standards or application of one standard achievement to various target achievement standards according to r