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The Power of Maps...
Maps, Visualization, GIS
1. Knowing our Surroundings
2. Visualizing the Human and Physical Environment
Mental Maps
Building our mental maps, characteristics, applications; psychogeography & sensory mapping
Cartographic Maps
1. Basic Components of Cartographic Maps
2. The Cartographic Process: Map Making and Map Use
3. Map Making: Mapping Constraints: factors which influence how and why a map is created
4. Map Use
Exercise 2: Finding 'Real' Maps: with a focus on maps of 'home.'
A Cultural History of Cartography
One facet: development of locational accuracy
Another facet: linked to cultural characteristics: religion, belief, exploration, trade, colonization; scientific interest and economic factors
Geographic Data and Data Sources
1. How do we acquire data?
2. How are the data organized?
3. How are the data quantified (represented in numerical form)?
4. How are the data inventoried?
5. How is data derived?
Exercise 3: Geographic Information on the WWW
Computers and Mapping
Exercise 4: Mapping & GIS Tools
Map Projections
Exercise 5: Map Projections (on final)
Map Locational Reference Systems (Coordinate Systems)
Five different map coordinate systems
Coordinate systems primarily used to locate POINTS
Coordinate systems primarily used to locate AREAS
Map Abstraction
Map (or cartographic) Abstraction: "the process of transforming geographic data, which represents the actual human and physical environment, into a map
1. Map Content: given the infinite detail in the physical and human environment, what is selected to be mapped and at what scale?
2. Map Scale: "the extent of size reduction from the environment to the map; the ratio of map distance to ground distance"
3. Map Generalization: the systematic process of removing detail from (and sometimes adding detail to) the objects and phenomena to be mapped
4. Map Symbolization: the systematic process of creating graphic marks which represent the objects and phenomena to be mapped
Exercise 7: Mapping Your Own Data
...and finally, the final!
What the future holds...
Geographic Information Systems: Big GIS - higher costs, higher skills...
Virtual Globes: GIS for the people...
Map Hacking / Mashups: More GIS for the people...
Getting more and more data: location aware devices everywhere: Global Positioning Systems
Other Mapping & GIS courses & Geography
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