Course Details

Cartography 1

Academic Year 2025/26

BEA023 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-GK Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. RNDr. Aleš Ruda, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geodesy

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

8 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289968

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.