j.b.krygier: geography 353: Introduction to Course, Lab, and Lab Project

Geography 353 Cartography and Visualization

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Geog 353 Lecture Outline: Conclusion of Course, Lab, and Lab Project
Update: 12/3/19

I. Traditional Cartographic Design & Map Production

Chippewa Moraine map

Flight of Voyager map

II. Post-1980 Developments in Cartography and "Visualization"

Animation: show changing data (of changing phenomena) with a changing / dynamic presentation
Interactivity: user can engage with and change the map
Multimedia/Hypermedia: Combine and link maps with images, graphs, video, and other media
Geographic Information Systems: GIS
Map Mashups:
Now: Everything Together: Animation + Interactivity + Multimedia/Hypermedia + GIS + mashups all on the WWW

Technological changes in mapping over the last 30 years more profound and fast than in any other era in history.

Map concepts and map design: have not changed nearly as much but need to be adapted to new technologies

This course: bring together more traditional cartography and cartographic design with new technologies and new kinds of maps

Some general goals for this course:

Learn the logic and guidelines for making maps with computers

Learn the process of map making from beginning to end

Familiarize yourself with basic computer skills: working with Windows, file management, graphic files, image processing software, HTML, WWW searching, GIS software, Animation, text processing, etc.

Course Project: Visualizing Population Change, 1900 to 2010+

Goal: to produce a series of animated, interactive maps, for display on the WWW, which serve as a means of visualizing county level population change over time.

1. Define the Geographic Context and Mapping Method

2. Locating, Downloading, and Processing Course Data

3. Mapping the Data

4. Animating the Series of Maps

5. Placing your materials on the Web

III. Some Final Comments...

You all accomplished a lot!
the evaluations (mid-term and final) to remind you of what you have done, and evaluate your efforts
wed theory to practice, with an emphasis on a real-like semester long project

Course evolution: Making Maps book and course revisions and changes in technology

Technology = crisis: missed details, typos, crashes, buggy software, lost files, hair loss

A learning process as much about working successfully with computers as about mapping and GIS
Positive outcome? increased comfort with computers and their quirks
...and some appreciation of how you can harness the technology to do cool stuff.

E-mail: jbkrygier@owu.edu

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