GEOG 2053 - Lecture, Discussion, and Study Notes

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

Material covered on first exam:

• Cartographic Communication  (sections 1-7 only)
  
• Lecture notes used in first week of class (.pdf)
• Brewer, Cynthia.  2005.  Designing Better Maps.  Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.  Chapters 1-7.
  
• Tufte, Edward.  2001. Graphical Excellence.  Chapter 1 in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, pp. 13-51.  Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

Material covered on second exam:

• Notes from class on coordinate systems and cadastral systems, for more information see:
  
  
  • 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)
    
    
• Notes from class on map projections, for more information see:
  
  
• USGS, Map Projection Poster, http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/MapProjections/projections.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.
  
  
• Handout from class on the Global Positioning System (GPS), for more information see:
  
  
  • 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
• Ken Foote and Don Huebner, Managing Error, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/manerror/manerror_f.html
• 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 maps designed to persuade and mislead.
  
• Foote, Ken. Notes from class on legal, ethical and social issues: legalethicalissues.pdf
• Foote, Ken. Notes from class on geospatial futures

• Foote, Ken. Key Moments and Maps in Cartographic History, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/foote/maps/notes/KeyMoments-Maps/KeyMoments-Maps.html, for more information see:

• 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

Other Useful Sources

• Internet Resources for Geographers , particularly pages on Map Collections .
• Kimerling, A. Jon, Aileen R. Buckley, Phillip C. Muehrcke, and Juliana O. Muehrcke.  2009.  Map use: Reading and analysis.  Redlands, CA: Esri Press.
• Krygier, John and Denis Wood.  2011.  Making maps: A visual guide to map design for GIS, 2nd ed.  New York: Guilford Press.
• Peterson, Gretchen. 2009. GIS cartography: A guide to effective map design.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
• Oddens' Bookmarks  
• Cynthia Brewer's ColorBrewer, http://colorbrewer2.org/
  
• News: http://www.geospatial-solutions.com/geospatialsolutions/
• CU Career Services Homepage and Notes for Geographers: http://careerservices.colorado.edu/ | CareerServices.docx
  
• Employment: CU Internet Resources, Job & Careers for Geographers, including sources such as  http://www.giwis.org/
• ArcMap Tutorials http://spot.colorado.edu/~sitelic/esritutorials/
• ArcGIS Online Standard Service: USA/World Bundle, http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/usa_world_bundle.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
• Lecture notes about search engines and the deep web (.pdf)

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Last updated 2012.10.24.  k.foote@colorado.edu