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This article establishes a new methodological framework for parallelizing spatial data processing called parallel cartographic modeling, which extends the widely adopted cartographic modeling framework. Parallel cartographic modeling adds a novel component called a Subdomain, which serves as the elemental unit of parallel computation. Four operators are also added to express parallel spatial data processing, namely scheduler, decomposition, executor, and iteration. A parallel cartographic modeling language (PCML) is developed based on the parallel cartographic modeling framework, which is designed for usability, programmability, and scalability. PCML is a domain-specific language implemented in Python for the domain of cyberGIS. A key feature of PCML is that it supports automatic parallelization of cartographic modeling scripts; thus, allowing the analyst to develop models in the familiar cartographic …