August 22: Introduction:
Where is your favorite place?
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Overview of course
and introduction to cartographic resources in the Web.
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.
Introduction to the KESDA lab. |
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August 29: Why use maps?
First principles of cartographic communication.
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Introduction to
thematic cartography applied to first maps. Overview of
cartography as a form of visual communication. The
importance of defining of audience and theme. Overview of
general principles for composing a map and the essential
elements of maps. |
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September 5: How do maps
work? The semiotics of cartography and visual
communication.
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A careful
examination of how visual resources (color, pattern,
orientation, etc.) are used in map composition. Consider
the visual hierarchy of maps, foreground and background
relationships, and the use of visual resources to
highlight particular information. Experiment with point
symbols, color, and text. |
| Readings and
Work: |
- Map of Your Favorite Place
due on Friday by 5 pm.
- No
Class on Monday: Labor Day Holiday
- Both labs meet together for work sessions
with TA on Wednesday from 4-5:50
PM
- Sections 5, 7, and 8 of Kenneth Foote and Shannon
Crum, Cartographic
Communication .
- First two chapters of: Cynthia Brewer. 2005. Designing
Better
Maps:
A Guide for GIS Users. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
- Tufte, Edward. 2001. Graphical
Excellence. Chapter 1 in The Visual Display of
Quantitative Information, pp. 13-51.
Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
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September 12: Where
would you campaign? Using maps and GIS to developing
a strategy for the presidential race.
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| Topics: |
Introduction to US
electoral and demographic dynamics and the way GIS and
mapping systems are being used increasingly for
campaigning and in elections. Explore ways in
spatial analysis can be applied in the next presidential
election. Develop and series of maps that explore
contemporary electoral trends. Introduction to ArcMap data
handling and analysis functions. Contrast the advantages
and disadvantages of cartographic versus database
solutions. |
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September 19: Exploratory
data
analysis and effective demographic mapping:
Issues of generalization, classification, and
symbolization.
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| Topics: |
Consider how maps
can be used to explore geospatial data. Explore different
strategies for examining patterns using descriptive
statistics and statistical mapping.. Overview of issues
relating to demographic mapping: statistical
generalization, classification, and symbolization.
Overview of problems of data classification and of
strengths and weaknesses of various methods. Perform
experiments with area patterns and further tests with
layout and color. Introduce new issues relating to verbal
content and lettering. Review of descriptive statistics. |
| Readings and
Work: |
- Section 6 of Ken Foote and Shannon Crum,
Cartographic Communication, http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/cartocom/cartocom_f.html
- Gersmehl, Philip. 1985. The Data, the
Reader, and the Innocent Bystander: A Parable for Map
Users. The
Professional Geographer 37(3): 329-334.
- (Optional) Coulson, Michael R.C. 1987. In the matter
of class intervals for choropleth maps: With
particular reference to the work of George F. Jenks. Cartographica 24
(2): 16-39.
- (Optional) Evans, Ian S. 1977. The selection of
class intervals. Transactions
of the Institute of British Geographers New
Series 2: 98-124.
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September 26:
Classification and symbolization strategies
(continued) & Issues in contemporary map design.
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| Topics: |
Overview of other
ways in which maps are used in contemporary life.
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| Readings and
Work: |
- Holmberg, Molly O.
and Kenneth E. Foote. 2008. Journalistic
Cartography on the Web: A Comparison of Print and
Online Maps in Seven Major American Newspapers. In International Perspectives on Maps and
the Internet, eds.
Michael P. Peterson, 323-340 Berlin: Springer.
We will look at a number of examples include these and
others:
- Suchan, Trudy A., Marc J. Perry, James D.
Fitzsimmons, Anika E. Juhn, Alexander M. Tait, Cynthia
A. Brewer. 2007. Census Atlas of the United States.
Washington,
DC: U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/censusatlas/
- Frerichs, Ralph R., 2000. Dr. John Snow: a
Historical Giant in Epidemiology. (http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html)
- National Cancer Institute, Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses
Received by the American People from Iodine-131 in
Fallout Following Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb
Tests, http://www.cancer.gov/i131/fallout/contents.html
also http://www.cancer.gov/i131/
see for link to dose calculator
- The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare : http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/
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October 3: How do we record
location? The basics of locational reference and
coordinate systems.
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Raise issue of
establishing and measuring location. Address issue of how
and why coordinate systems differ. Survey major issues and
terms. Introduce principle land survey and coordinate
systems employed in Colorado. Raise issues of accuracy and
precision. Raise further issues in cartographic design and
composition. |
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October 10: Map Projections
Overview
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| Topics: |
Overview basic
issue of map projections and compromises involved in
transferring 3-dimensional positions to 2-dimensional
surfaces. Introduce basic terminology. Consider widely
used methods, why and when they are applied, and the
compromises involved in employing each one. |
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October 17: Map Projections
& GPS
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| Topics: |
Practice using map projections to solve
cartographic problems. Discuss principles of GPS
positioning and navigation. Consider strengths and
weakness of GPS for improving location accuracy and
precision.
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October 24: Error and
accuracy in maps and geospatial data
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| Topics: |
Consider how accuracy and
precision effect spatial datasets. Examine major sources
and how they can propagate and cascade in cartographic
databases. |
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October 31: Modeling patterns
and processes using animation and terrain modeling
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| Topics: |
Focus on how
animation and terrain and contour mapping can be used to
model environmental processes. Introduce a few
techniques used for animation and terrain modeling.
Discuss data types used for such mapping, including DEMs
available from the USGS. |
| Readings and
Work: |
- The Economist,
Technology Quarterly, The World on Your Desktop, 8
September 2007, 18-20, http://www.economist.com/search/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9719045
- Study the U.S. Geological Survey, Geographic
Data
Download Page , 1:250,000 scale Digital
Elevation Models
- Peterson, M.P, Between Reality and Abstraction:
Non-Temporal Applications of Cartographic Animation, http://maps.unomaha.edu/AnimArt/article.html
- (Optional) Peterson, M.P. 1995. Interactive and
Animated Cartography . Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
- (Optional) Cartwright, William, Michael P. Peterson,
and Georg Gartner, eds. 1999. Multimedia
Cartography . Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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November 7: Cartography in history and
across cultures
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| Topics: |
A brief overview
of the history of cartography and the role maps have
played in various world cultures. Touch on
interrelationships between cartography and economic,
social, political, technological and cultural processes
and patterns through time. |
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November 14: How can maps be
used to lie and mislead? Ethical issues in cartography
and GIS
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| Topics: |
Examine situations in which
maps, GIS and information technology intersect the law.
Consider some of the ethical problems that arise from the
use and misuse of information technology, including the
issue of privacy. |
| Readings and Work: |
- Begin the Cost
of Renting in Boulder County
- 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.
- (Optional) Monmonier, Mark. 1991. How to Lie
with Maps . Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
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November 21: Thanksgiving
break.
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November 28: Economic, legal,
political and social issues
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| Topics: |
Consider how maps
can be used to mislead readers either unintentionally or
intentionally. Examine how maps are sometimes used for
propaganda and how they express the values and motives of
the map makers themselves. |
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December 5: Frontiers of
cartography: WebGIS, mapservers, virtual reality,
multimedia and interactive mapping
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| Topics: |
Consider current
trends in cartography and some of the exciting recent
developments that link cartography, GIS, GPS, the Internet
and other information technologies. Course debriefing and
evaluation on Friday. |
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Second exam: Wednesday, December 14th, 7:30 to 10:00
pm. Exam is non-cumulative and covers only lecture
material since first exam.
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| Last revised 2011.11.7. KEF. |
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