ERS-105 Cartography for GIS (UCD, LAWR)
Note:
As of Spring 2006 LAWR is no longer offering this class. Please refer to the
LAWR homepage for any comparable courses.
[ http://lawr.ucdavis.edu/ ]
Instructor: Jeff
Hemphill, email: jeff _ @ _ geog.ucsb.edu
Lecture: TBD, Lab: TBD 253 Hunt Hall (Open Lab Hours 5-9, Sunday-Thursday)
Textbook: Slocum, T., McMaster, R., Kessler, F., and Howard, H. 2005. Thematic
Cartography and Geographic Visualization. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. http://www.prenhall.com/slocum/
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What | Reading |
| Week 1 - Mental Map: Lab 1 [ due 4/5 in class ] | Ch 1 p1-16 | |
| Th 3/31 | Course Overview (email assignment due) | Intro, *Ch 1 p5-8 |
| NO LAB | ||
| Week 2 - Essay 1 [ read: The Power of Maps ] due 4/12 (Guidelines) | Ch 2 p22-31 *Ch 3 | |
| T 4/5 | Lecture 1 - Mental Maps, The Nature of Maps (Nat. Geographic video) | |
| Lab 2 Online Maps, due 4/12 in class (Ch 12 p245-247) | ||
| Th 4/7 | NO CLASS (AAG) | |
| NO LAB (AAG) | ||
| Week 3 - Essay 2 [ read: Scale in Space & Time ] due 4/21 | *Ch 4, 11 | |
| T 4/12 | Lecture 2 - Geographic Data I (Coord. Systems I) | |
| Lab 3 Introduction to ArcGIS I, GeographyNetwork (see Ch 21 p400-401) | Ch 7, 8 *Ch 2 | |
| Th 4/14 | Lecture 3 - Geographic Data II (Coord. Systems II, Map Projection I) | |
| Lab 4 Introduction to ArcGIS II, Map Projections (Links: 1 | 2) | ||
| Week 4 - Essay 3 [ read: Visualizing Distortions ] due 4/28 | ~Ch 6 *Ch 5 | |
| T 4/19 | Lecture 4 - Geographic Data II (Map Projection. II) | |
| Lab 4 (cont.) Projections revisited (lab ends at 2:00, UCD Map Library) | Ch 4 *Ch 3, 5 | |
| Th 4/21 | Lecture 5 - Geographic Data III (Many Ways video) | |
| Lab 4 (cont.) | ||
| Week 5 - Essay 4 [ read: Map Misuse ] due 5/3 | ||
| T 4/26 | Lecture 6 - Map Abstraction I (Scale & Generalization, Review ) | |
| Lab 5.1 SunLab Part 1 | ||
| Th 4/28 | EXAM 1 ( Review Sheet ) | |
| NO LAB | ||
| Week 6 - Essay 5 [ read: Mapping Cyberspace, Science 2005 [ 1 | 2 ] | Ch 4 *Ch 15 | |
| T 5/3 | Lecture 7 - Data and Trends | |
| Lab 5.2 SunLab Part 2 | ||
| Th 5/5 | Movie: Nova - Lost at Sea, The Search For Longitude | |
| Lab 5.3 SunLab Part 3 | ~Ch 5, Ch 15 | |
| Week 7 - Essay 6 | ||
| T 5/10 | Lecture 8 - Symbolization, Topography | |
| Lab 5.3 SunLab Part 3 (cont.) | ||
| Th 5/12 | Lecture 9 - Data Classification I | |
| Lab 5.4 SunLab Part 4 | ||
| Week 8 - Essay 7 [ read: Measuring America] | Ch 16 | |
| T 5/17 | Lecture 10 - Prop. Symbol (1), Movie: Nova - Secrets of the Mind | |
| Lab 6 - Proportional Symbol Maps | Ch 13, 10 | |
| Th 5/19 | Lecture 11 - Prop. Symbol (2) | |
| Lab 6 (cont.) | ||
| Week 9 | ||
| T 5/24 | Lecture 12 - Choropleth, Color | |
| NO LAB | ||
| Th 5/26 | EXAM 2 ( Review Sheet ) | |
| Lab 7 (Choropleth Maps - 2003 Crime vs. 2004 Election Results) | ||
| Week 10 - Essay 8 [ GPS Assignment ] | ||
| T 5/31 | NO CLASS | |
| NO LAB | Links: 1 | 2 | |
| Th 6/2 | Last Lecture: Geospatial Technology (Remote Sensing, GPS, GIScience) | |
| Last Lab: Finish Lab 7, Finalized web pages | ||
| T 6/7 | NO CLASS | |
| NO LAB | ||
| Finals Week (6/10-6/16) |
Student's Maps - http://ers105.lawr.ucdavis.edu/
Maps Online
http://maps.google.com
http://maps.yahoo.com
http://www.mapquest.com
http://yellowpages.superpages.com/supermaps/mapform.jsphttp://www-atlas.usgs.gov
- http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/dynamic.htmlhttp://www.epa.gov/enviro/wme/
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt/
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/current/world.html
Traffic
Manhattan, NYC.
- http://nyctmc.org/xmanhattan.asp
Puget Sound Area, WA
- http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/seattle/
Houston, TX
- http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/layers/
Bay Area, CA
- http://traffic.511.org/sfgate/
Paper Maps
http://store.usgs.gov
http://www.maplink.com
http://www.maps.com
Other
http://www.confluence.org/
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/
http://www.3dsoftware.com/Cartography/
Google Earth (Keyhole)
http://earth.google.com/
Google Satellite Maps (Landmarks)
http://perljam.net/notes/interesting-google-satellite-maps/
Buzztracker.org (The Geography
of Google News!)
http://www.buzztracker.org/
Get mapping (April 7, 2005)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1453293,00.html
From the article:
"This five-year boom of digital cartography means more than big business. Maps also shape our view of the world. The art of mapmaking predates the written word by several millennia and provided humankind with the first opportunity to read and write. When our maps change, our world view changes.About the time of the French Revolution, the science of cartography became a responsibility of government and a duty of the military (hence Ordnance Survey). But the compass has revolved 360 degrees, and a combination of the internet, cheap computers and even cheaper GPS units promises to turn ordinary citizens into mapmakers once more.
It is tempting to call it the march of amateur mapmakers: armed with cheap satellite-tracking handsets, teams of civilian surveyors are out in the field recording casual journeys and sharing geodata with each other to produce their own maps. Their aim is to build a set of people's maps: charted and owned by those who create them, which are as free to share as the open road.
Geographic Dialect Survey Maps
http://cfprod01.imt.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html
created by jeff 3/05, last outdated 6/06