GEOG 4043/5043: Cartography 2
Lectures: MWF, 11:00-11:50 in KESDA (GUGG 6) with Ken Foote.
Labs: M 9:00-10:50 and W 9:00-10:50 in KESDA (GUGG 6) with Dan Trudeau.
Schedule (subject to change). Any changes of assignment and assignment
deadlines will be announced in class and posted here.
This page contains the class schedule by week | January 16 | January 23
| January 30 | February
6 | February 13 | February 20 | February
27 | March 6 | March 13
| March
20 | March 27 (Spring Break) | April 3 |
April 10 | April
17 | April 24 | May 1
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Related pages:
General Information |
Lecture and Discussion Notes |
Assignments |
Cartography 2 Homepage | CU Geography Homepage |
January 16: Multimedia,
Interactive and Web Cartography: Overview of Issues and Skills
Topics and tasks: Introduction to
course. Complete final enrollment.
Overview of laboratory resources, access, and use. Practice with
Internet resources. Overview of file use, transfer, conversion,
compression, and decompression. Discuss problems involved in navigating
the Internet. Demonstrate how to access and use on-line class
materials.
Required Reading:
January 23: Principles and Processes of
Cartographic Design in Hypermedia Environments.
Topics and tasks: Overview of the HTML
and the basics
of Web publishing. Consider principles for organizing Web pages and
sites including issues of planning and design.
Required Reading:
Supplemental Reading:
- Flanders, Vincent. Web Pages That Suck,
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
- McCanna, Laurie. 1997. Creating
Great Web Graphics, 2nd ed. New York:
MIS Press and her companion website Free Art Site at http://www.mccannas.com/index.html
- Siegel, David. 1996. Creating
Killer Web Sites: The Art of
Third-Generation Site Design. Indianapolis, IN: Hayden Books. A
companion Web site is located at:
http://www.killersites.com/
- You may wish to purchase one of the commercially available
guides to HTML, but everything you really need to know is online
from a variety of sources including: CU's main ITS pages,
from its HTML
and CGI Tools page, from other universities and from sites
such as the W3 Consortium, the
NCSA, and the
University of Toronto.
January 30: Animated Maps; Java
Applets; JavaScript Applications
Topics and tasks: Temporal and non-temporal animation will be
discussed
from theoretical and practical perspectives. Lectures will focus
on the
use of animation as a visualization tool while labs will concentrate on
the many
tools that can be used to produce animations in a variety of graphic
formats.
Learn how Java Applets and Javascript code can be incorporated into
webpages. Although we won't be writing original Java or
Javascript code, many useful freeware examples can be found in the
web. You will learn how these examples can be customized to use
in your pages and projects.
Required Reading:
Supplemental Reading:
February 6: Project 2: Urbanization
of Boulder and CU Campus.
Topics and tasks:
Overview of urbanization and campus
mapping project. This is an example of the interaction of
technology, environment and society at a variety of scales.
Required Reading:
Further Reading:
- Horvath, Ronald J. 1974. Machine Space. Geographical
Review 64: 167-188.
February 13: Project 2: Developing the
Data and Maps for the CU Urbanization Project
Topics and tasks: Topics and tasks:
Overview the CAD
files that
are available for campus as well as the archival photos and maps that
can be
used to date change. Select study area and plan approach to
mapping and
checking changes.
Required Reading:
Further Reading:
February 20: Project 2: Developing the Website for the CU
Urbanization
Project.
Topics and tasks: Consider issues of web design for CU campus
project and the challenge of showing change through time through
animation or side-by-side comparisons.
February 27: Project 3: Virtual
Fieldtrips into Boulder County's Geological History.
- First Take-home Exam Due on Friday
Topics and tasks:
Introduction to the topics for the third assignment. This project
involves collating geospatial and attribute data from a variety of
sources.
Readings:
March 6: Project 3: Developing the
Data and Maps
for the Geological History Virtual Fieldtrip.
- CU Urbanization Project due online by
Friday
at 5 pm.
- Guest
lectures this week for lecture and lab.
Topics and tasks: Lectures and labs will focus on gathering
and collating the files and information needed for this project. Select study area and
theme.
March 13: Project 3: Developing
the Website for
the Geological History Virtual Fieldtrip.
Topics and tasks:
Lectures and labs will focus on the steps needed to gather and collate
the information needed for these maps.
March 20: Web Site and Map
Accessibility.
Topics and tasks: For people with visual, tactile, and auditory
disabilities,
multimedia, interactive, and web maps present barriers to accessing
information. Much can be done to minimize these barriers through
careful
design.
Readings:
March 27: Spring Break.
April 3: Usability Testing and Project
Evaluation.
Topics and tasks: Usability testing
and project evaluation are methods for
checking whether our designs for maps and web sites are reaching their
goals. Multimedia and hypermedia are new media with strengths and
weaknesses different than conventional media. We cannot assume
that our
good design intentions will translate into projects that will be easily
comprehended by users. Instead, we must test and evaluate our
projects as
they are developing and in final form.
Further reading:
- Shneiderman, Ben. 1998. Designing the User
Interface:
Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 3rd ed.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
- Spool, Jared M., Tara Scanlon, Will Schroeder, Carolyn Snyder,
and Terri DeAngelo. 1999. Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman.
- Skim for reference: Frechtling, J. & Sharp, L. , (Eds)
(1997). User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations
. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education
and Human Resources, Division of Research, Evaluation and
Communication, NSF Publication NSF 97-153.
www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/REC/pubs/NSF97-153/start.htm
- Skim for reference: Stevens, F., Lawrence, F., Sharp, L.,
& Frechtling, J. (1993). User-Friendly Handbook for Project
Evaluations. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Directorate
for Education
and Human Resources, Division of Research, Evaluation and
Communication,
NSF Publication NSF 93-152. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02057/nsf02057.pdf
April 10: Backoffice Issues: File
Organization, Website Maintenance, Planning for Change.
- Third project due on
Friday,
April 14 by 5 pm.
Topics and tasks: Online maps also require attention to a number
of "backoffice" issues that are
not
always apparent on the screen. They require care in
organizing files at the start of a project and continuing attention and
maintenance once online. Several strategies are presented and discussed
for planning and maintaining websites.
April 17: MapServer Strategies.
Topics and tasks: Consider how mapserver technology is changing
the
way
maps and GIS functions are being made available in the Web. Consider
different approaches to implementing mapserver and WebGIS techniques.
Required Reading:
April 24: Trends in Multimedia,
Interactive, and Web Cartography.
Topics and tasks: The final lectures will focus on 1) The new
role of the
cartographer in the multimedia and web worlds; 2) Recent experiments in
multimedia and interactive cartography; 3) New directions in virtual
reality,
hand-held, and mobile technologies; 4) Changing trends in education and
training; and 5) Barriers and constraints to change
.
May 1: Presentation of Final
Projects.
- Second Take-home Exam Due on Friday:
Usability Surveys,
Mapserver Technologies, Interface Design, Project Management
- Class debriefing and FCQs on Friday
- Last class day is Friday, 5 May
Topics and tasks: Presentation of final projects. We will
also cover how to archive and move
projects
from
server. The schedule
of presentations can be found here.
May 8 (Monday): Final Projects
On-line
and
Documented by 1:00 pm (time of the final exam).
Last revised 2006.1.27. k.foote@colorado.edu