Cartography 1 Schedule

GEOG 3043: Cartography 1: Visualization and Information Design

Lectures: 9-9:50 MWF, MCOL E155

Labs: L011: 1-3:50 M, GUGG 6 (KESDA) and L012: 1-3:50 T, GUGG 6 (KESDA)

Weekly Schedule (subject to change). Any changes of topics or deadlines will be announced in class and posted here.

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January 14: Introduction.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 1, pp. 2-22.

Lab Exercise:

Boulder County Map (5 points), due week of 28 January

January 21: Map Projections and Distortions.

No class on Monday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 2, pp. 25-46.

Lab Exercise:

No lab this week

January 28: Generalization Controls and Elements. Scale Effects on Maps.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 3, pp. 47-65.

Lab Exercise:

ArcView Introduction (5 points), due week of 4 February
Start Scanning and Layout exercise

February 4: Visual Variables.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 13, pp. 236-266.

Lab Exercise:

Scanning and Layout (10 points), due week of 11 February

February 11: Typography.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 14, pp. 268-287.
Imhoff, E. 1975 Positioning Names on Maps. The American Cartographer, vol. 2 (2): 128-144.

Lab Exercise:

Type Placement (10 points), due week of 18 February

February 18: Color.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 15, pp. 288-308.
Brewer, www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorSch/SchHome.html
Brewer, www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/ColorSch/Schemes.html
Brewer, C. A. 1994 Color Use Guidelines for Mapping and Visualization. In Visualization in Modern Cartography, ed. A. M. MacEachren and D.R.F. Taylor, 123-147. New York: Elsevier.

Supplemental Reading:

Brewer, Cynthia A. ColorBrewer at www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewerBeta.html
Garo, Laurie A. B. Color Theory, www.uncc.edu/lagaro/cwg/color/index.html

Lab Exercise:

Color Map Composition (15 points), due week of 4 March

February 25: Review and First Exam.

First exam on Friday (25 points).

Required Reading:

None.

Lab Exercise:

Color Map Composition (continued), due week of 4 March

March 4: Thematic Maps and Symbols.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 9, pp. 173-187..

Lab Exercise:

Visual Balance (5 points), due week of 11 March

March 11: Measuring Map Data and Pattern.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 4, pp. 67-89.

Lab Exercise:

Proportional Symbols (5 points), due week of 18 March
Choropleth Mapping (5 points), due week of 18 March

March 18: Processing Map Data and Mapping Enumerated Data.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 5, pp. 89-109.

Guest Lectures:

Jim Robb, Atlas of Colorado, Wednesday in KESDA
Erin Heithoff, Web and Multimedia Cartography, Friday in KESDA

Lab Exercise:

Mapping Census Data (10 points), due week of 8 April

March 25: Spring Break.

April 1: Data Classification and Error in Choropleth Maps.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 7, pp. 138-159.
Evans, I.S. 1977. The Selection of Class Intervals. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , n.s. vol. 2: 98-124.

Lab Exercise:

Continue Mapping Census Data, due week of 8 April

April 8: Mapping Uncertainty.

Required Reading:

Buttenfield, B. P. 2001 Visualizing Ecological Uncertainty. Chapter 6 in Uncertainty in Spatial Data for Ecological Analyses, ed. C. Hunsaker, M.F. Goodchild, M. Friedl, and T. Case. New York: Springer-Verlag. Online: greenwich.colorado.edu/babs/nceas/buttenfield.html
MacEachren, A. M. 1992. Visualizing Uncertain Information. Cartographic Perspectives 13: 10-19.

Lab Exercise:

Electronic Atlas Design (10 points), due week of 22 April

Supplemental Reading:

Read Error, Accuracy, and Precision in Spatial Datasets .
Burrough, Peter A. and Rachael A. McDonnell. 1998. Errors and Data Quality. Chap. 9 in Principles of Geographic Information Systems, pp. 220-240. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fisher, P.F. 1999. Models of Uncertainty in Spatial Data. In Geographic Information Systems, 2nd ed. Vol. 1, Principles and Technical Issues, eds. Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire and David Rhind, 191-205. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

April 15: Managing and Representing Error.

Required Reading:

Beard, M.K. and B.P. Buttenfield. 1999. Detecting and Evaluating Errors by Graphical Methods. In Geographic Information Systems, 2nd ed. Vol. 1, Principles and Technical Issues, eds. Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire and David Rhind, 219-233. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Lab Exercise:

Mapping Uncertainty (10 points), due week of 29 April

Supplemental Reading:

Read Managing Error .
Heuvelink, G.B.M. 1999. Propagation of Error in Spatial Modelling with GIS. In Geographic Information Systems , 2nd ed. Vol. 1, Principles and Technical Issues, eds. Paul A. Longley, Michael F. Goodchild, David J. Maguire and David Rhind, 207-217. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

April 22: Multimedia and Interactive Cartography .

No class on Friday, 26 April.

Required Reading:

Dent, Cartography, Chapter 6, pp. 110-135.
Weibel, W.R. and B.P. Buttenfield. 1992. Improvement of GIS Graphics for Analysis and Decision-Making. International Journal of Geographic Information Systems, 6 (3): 223-245.

Lab Exercise:

Mapping Uncertainty (continued), due week of 29 April
Map animation (begin)

Supplemental Reading:

Cartwright, William, Michael P. Peterson, and Georg Gartner, eds. 1999. Multimedia Cartography . Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Dodge, Martin and Rob Kitchin. 2001. Mapping Cyberspace . London: Routledge.
Kraak, Menno-Jan and Allan Brown. 2001. Web Cartography: Developments and Prospects. New York: Taylor & Francis.

April 29: Future Directions in Cartography.

Course debriefing and evaluation on Wednesday.
Last exam on Friday. Covers lectures and readings since first exam. (25 points).
All labs must be completed by 9:00 am, Friday, 3 May.

Required Reading:

None.

Lab Exercise:

Map animation (10 points), due at end of lab.

Last revised 2002.4.22. KEF.