GEOG 2053 - Lecture, Discussion, and Study Notes

Links and materials will be added through the semester as needed.


General

• Internet Resources for Geographers , particularly pages on Map Collections .
• Oddens' Bookmarks
• US Bureau of Census Resources in the Web
• Notes for downloading and using SSH Secure Shell client to transfer files via FTP (.pdf)
  
• Cynthia Brewer's ColorBrewer, http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewer/ColorBrewer.html
  
• 3DEM - Free Terrain Visualization and Flyby Animation Software, http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/3dem.html
• News: http://www.geospatial-solutions.com/geospatialsolutions/
• Employment: http://www.giwis.org/
• ArcMap Tutorials http://spot.colorado.edu/~sitelic/esritutorials/
  
  

Material covered on first exam:

• Cartographic Communication  (sections 1-4 only)
  
• Lecture notes used in first week of class (.pdf)
• Lecture notes about search engines and the deep web (.pdf)
• Brewer, Cynthia.  2005.  Designing Better Maps.  Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.  Chapters 1-3.
  
• Dana, Peter H. (1997) Coordinate Systems Overview, NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience, http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/units/u013/u013_f.html (only sections on Lat-Long, UTM, State Plane)
  
• Kirvan, Anthony P. (1997) Latitude/Longitude, NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience, http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/units/u014/u014_f.html (only sections covered in lecture)
• Tufte, Edward.  2001. Graphical Excellence.  Chapter 1 in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, pp. 13-51.  Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
• Gersmehl, Philip.  1985.  The Data, the Reader, and the Innocent Bystander: A Parable for Map Users.  The Professional Geographer 37(3): 329-334.

Material covered on second exam:

The lectures on map projections and the global positioning system used examples and figures from the following modules:

• USGS, Map Projection Poster, http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/MapProjections/projections.html
• The Floating Ring: A New Tool for Visualizing Distortion in Map Projections, http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/slvg/map.html
• Map Projections, Rogério Vaz de Almeida Jr, Jonas Hurrelmann, Konrad Polthier and Humberto José Bortolossi, http://www.uff.br/mapprojections/mp_en.html
  
• Dana, Peter H.  Map Projections Overview, The Geographer's Craft Project,  U of Colorado at Boulder, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/mapproj/mapproj_f.html.
• Dana, Peter H.  The Global Positioning System, The Geographer's Craft Project,  U of Colorado at Boulder, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html
• Ken Foote and Don Huebner, Error, Accuracy, and Precision in Spatial Datasets, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/error/error_f.html
• Olson, Judy M.  2006.  Map Projections and the Visual  Detective: How to Tell is a Map is Equal-Area, Conformal, or Neither.  Journal of Geography 105: 13-32.
• Harley, J.B.. 1988. Maps, knowledge and power. In Cosgrove, D. and Daniels, S., eds, The iconography of landscape. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 277-312.
• Foote, Ken. Notes from class on cartography futures: cartographyfutures.pdf
• Foote, Ken. Notes from class on legal, ethical and social issues: legalethicalissues.pdf

The lectures on the history of cartography used examples and figures from the following modules.  I am not able to post my lecture notes online because they use copyrighted material from these online and other online sources.

• Aber, J.S. 1999.  Brief History of Maps and Cartography, http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm
• David Rumsey Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com/index.html
  
• Library of Congress, An Illustrated Guide to Geography and Maps, http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/guide/gmilltoc.html

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Last updated 2008.7.29.  k.foote@colorado.edu