Course Details

Cartography 2

Academic Year 2023/24

NEA031 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year

The creation of thematic maps is the key content of the subject. ArcGIS for Desktop will be used as a software background. Within the subject key methods of thematic cartography will be presented.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Analogue and analytical methods of cartographic creation and production of cartographic works.

Knowledge

Student will manage basic theoretical knowledge of cartographic creation and production of maps. Using the digital technologies they will be able to make compilation manuscript and fair draught.

Syllabus

1. Conception and composition of thematic maps.
2. Geoinformatics aspects of thematic maps creation.
3. Cartographic generalization.
4. Cartographic visual expression 1.
5. Cartographic visual expression 2.
6. Specific aspects of visual expressions.
7. Scales in thematic cartography.
8. Methods in thematic cartography 1.
9. Methods in thematic cartography 2.
10. Time-spatial dynamics in maps
11. Cartographic typography.
12. Managing thematic maps and atlases production.
13. Current trends in thematic cartography.

Prerequisites

Cartographic terminology, optics, theory of color.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

6 credits

Semester

winter

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, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Conception and composition of thematic maps. 2. Geoinformatics aspects of thematic maps creation. 3. Cartographic generalization. 4. Cartographic visual expression 1. 5. Cartographic visual expression 2. 6. Specific aspects of visual expressions. 7. Scales in thematic cartography. 8. Methods in thematic cartography 1. 9. Methods in thematic cartography 2. 10. Time-spatial dynamics in maps 11. Cartographic typography. 12. Managing thematic maps and atlases production. 13. Current trends in thematic cartography.

Exercise

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.–2. Thematic maps composition. Cartographic representation. 3.–4. Cartographic generalization. Topographic content of the map. 5.–6. Qualitative data visualization. 7.–8. Quantitative data visualization (choropleth map, izoplets, dasymetric map). 9.–10. Quantitative data visualization (proportional map, dot map). 11.–13. Time-spatial dynamics visualization.