August 25: 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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September 1: Why use maps? First principles
of cartographic communication.
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| Topics: |
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 8: How do maps work?
The
semiotics of cartography and visual communication.
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| Topics: |
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.
- 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 15: 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 22: 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 29: 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,
- The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare : http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/
- National Cancer Institute, Atlas of Cancer Mortality in
the
United States, 1950-1994, http://www.nci.nih.gov/atlas/mortality.html
- Williams, Robert C., Max M. Howie, Carolyn V. Lee, and
William D.
Henriques, eds. 1998. Geographic Information Systems in Public
Health: Proceedings of the Third National Conference . Atlanta, GA:
Center for Disease Control, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry. URL: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/GIS/conference98/
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October 6: How do we record
location? The basics of locational reference and coordinate systems.
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| Topics: |
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 13: 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 20: 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 27: 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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November 3: 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 Adobe
Photoshop/ImageReady software for animation and ArcView options for
contour mapping. 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
10: 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 17: Economic, legal,
political and social issues
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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. |
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November 24: Thanksgiving break.
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December 1: How can maps be used to
lie and mislead? Ethical issues in cartography and GIS
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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. |
| Readings and Work: |
- Finish
Boulder
County Flooding by Friday at 5 pm.
- 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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December 8: 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. Presentations of last
project in Monday and Wednesday labs. Course debriefing and evaluation
on Friday. |
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Second exam: Saturday, December 13th, 7:30 to 10:00 pm. Exam
is non-cumulative and covers only lecture material since first exam.
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| Last revised 2008.7.28. KEF. |
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