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.
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.