Course Details
Cartography 1
Academic Year 2023/24
BEA023 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-GK Summer Semester 3rd year
Basics of cartography – basics terms, types of cartographic products, development of the Czech and world cartography.
Basics of mathematical cartography.
Means of map representation – cartographic languge, cartographic interpretation.
Principles of generalization and basics of cartometry.
Digital cartography – vector and raster data.
Publishing of cartographic products – basic production and printing techniques.
Basics of mathematical cartography.
Means of map representation – cartographic languge, cartographic interpretation.
Principles of generalization and basics of cartometry.
Digital cartography – vector and raster data.
Publishing of cartographic products – basic production and printing techniques.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Acquisition of comprehensive knowledge of cartography and GIS.
Knowledge
Students will manage basic theoretical knowledge of cartography, thematic and digital cartography included. They will be introduced with the state map works of the Czech republic and they will achieve basic overview about Czech and world's cartography development and about digital cartographic works, which are part of national geoinformatic systems.
Syllabus
1. Development and definition of cartography, types of cartographic products.
2. Geometrical base of cartographic works, projections.
3. Contents of cartographic products, cartographic language.
4. Cartographic interpretation.
5. Generalization and cartometry.
6. Development of Czech and world cartography.
7. National and military state map series.
8. Digital cartography, legislative and institutional security of cartography.
9. Creation, production and publishing of cartographic products, printing of cartographic products.
2. Geometrical base of cartographic works, projections.
3. Contents of cartographic products, cartographic language.
4. Cartographic interpretation.
5. Generalization and cartometry.
6. Development of Czech and world cartography.
7. National and military state map series.
8. Digital cartography, legislative and institutional security of cartography.
9. Creation, production and publishing of cartographic products, printing of cartographic products.
Prerequisites
Datums used in survey, working with geodetic softwares.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Development and definition of cartography, types of cartographic products.
2. Geometrical base of cartographic works, projections.
3. Contents of cartographic products, cartographic language.
4. Cartographic interpretation.
5. Generalization and cartometry.
6. Development of Czech and world cartography.
7. National and military state map series.
8. Digital cartography, legislative and institutional security of cartography.
9. Creation, production and publishing of cartographic products, printing of cartographic products.
Exercise
13 weeks, 4 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. State map – work with Geoportal of the Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre and with vector data, import of map frames.
2. State map – construction of one-kilometer grid lines, digital calculation of grid line and map frame intersections.
3. Base Map of the Czech Republic – work with map frames, graphical construction of one-kilometer grid lines, transformation using key of transformation and trigonometric points.
4. Base Map of the Czech Republic – setting and using the dimensioning device.
5. Creation of point cartographic symbols.
6. Work with line symbols and map lettering, using web map services.
7. Vectorization of topographic map in scale 1:25 000.
8. Generalization of topographic map from scale 1:25 000 to 1:50 000.
9. Plotting drawings and control test.