GEOG 581: Cartography Design
Session ONE
Graduate Student Additional Assignment:
Graduate students will have an additional assignment (one short essay for
related cartographic research topics). (Additional 10% ) The short essay should
be double-spaces, 12-point fonts and between 4 - 6 pages. Examples of essay
topics are the following (you can choose your own topics):
1. The history and development of web-based mapping techniques.
2. The differences between geovisualization paradigm and communication paradigm.
3. GIS vs. Cartography: What are the differences between them?
4. Color use for qualitative data.
(Find more topics from the Cartography and Geographic Information Science
Journal).
Due Day: (Same as the Group Project Report Due data: Dec 14 at 3:00pm.)
Dr. Arthur H. Robinson, a geographer who improved on the venerable Mercator projection for drawing the round Earth on a flat map, has died. He was 89. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/obituaries/15robinson.html
(The key person in Communication Paradigm)
Class Schedule Update:
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Nov 25 |
Thanksgiving (NO class this week) |
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NO lab this week |
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Nov 30 (Tuesday) (12:30). |
Visual Thinking and Visualization |
MacEachren Ch.8,9,10 |
Free Lab hour.. (No lab) |
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Dec 9 |
The future of cartography |
Slocum. Ch. 25. Clarke, 2002. |
Group Project Presentation |
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14 Dec |
13:00 – 15:00 Office hour. |
Due day for Group project Report (15:00). |
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UCSB NCGIA Specialist Meeting: http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/nga/
Map Representation II (Functional Approach)
(MacEachren, ch 6, 7)
[Sign-vehicle] -- [Interpretant] -- [Referent]
Sign-Vehicle as Mediator
| Sign Aspects | |
| Apprise : (provide attribute or location information about objects, meanings) | Stimulate: (behavior, action or feeling) |
| designate | prescribe |
| appraise | emotive |
| indicate | connote |
| label | poetic / aesthetic |
| ??? examples: (I-5) | examples: ?? (STOP) |
Referent as Mediator
Example: Three dimensional space-time referents generated from linking a two-D spatial objects (Time series maps)
Phenomenon-representation (P-reps) -- physical worlds... and Concept-representation (C-reps)... hypotheses from the world.
Interpretant as Mediator (shared understanding between cartographer and percipient).
Map symbol design --> from mimetic to arbitrary
Pictorial symbol, associative symbol, geometric symbols
Visual Variables (no complete agreement within cartography)
Page 279.
Static Visual Maps:
(Page.279 for more detail lists).
Dynamic Visual Maps (Animation):
Dynamic Audio Maps
 | Location |
| Loudness |
| Pitch |
| Register |
| Timbre |
| Duration |
| Rate of change |
| Order |
| Attach/decay |
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Please use on-line forum to answer the following questions (5 points)
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What are the differences between "tweened" animation and regular animation in Flash? Which one is better for Web-based animation and WHY? |
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What are the differences between Java applet animation, Flash animation, and Animated GIF Images? (Use the Web Search for your answers). |
( Java and GIF http://services.valdosta.edu/animation/cool.html )
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What is "Semantic Web"? What kinds of impacts will this new direction have for the Web-based Mapping and the GIS community? |
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