GEOG 581: Cartography Design

The Future of Cartography

Read Slocum's chapter 24 and 25.

(Class evaluation questionnaire at the end)

Ongoing Development

1. Link to statistical plots.

Linked micromap plots (LM plots) --  a series of small maps (micromaps) focus on local pattern perception.

http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/micromaps/

Conditioned choropleth maps (CCmaps): http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu/~dcarr/ccmaps/ ,

more reference: http://www.quantlet.com/mdstat/scripts/csa/html/node84.html

2. Link to Sounds  (Abstract or Realistic sounds)

Realistic sounds are like "oceans", "bird sounds", "animal movement"... (use computer games examples).

Abstract sounds are not clear meaning... but provide some feedback to the map readers.

http://soundscapes.geog.ucsb.edu/

Video example:  John Ryan's Ph.D. thesis example [Video].

3. Link to Other sensors (touch, smell, or others).

4. Link to multiple users at the same time (collaborative geovisualization).

Nick Hedley with his Augment Reality work.  http://www.sfu.ca/geography/people/faculty/Faculty_sites/NickHedley/index.htm

5. Link to Information Landscape (Information Visualization or Spatialization)

Spatialization of articles (using spatial or geographic metaphor).  Andrew Skupin and Sara Fabrikant (2003).

Skupin A. and Fabrikant, S.I. (2003). Spatialization Methods: A Cartographic Research Agenda for Non-Geographic Information Visualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, vol. 30, no. 2, 95-119.

http://www.geog.uno.edu/~askupin/

Skupin, A. (2004) A Picture from a Thousand Words. Computing in Science and Engineering. 6 (5): 84-88. (PDF - 1.3 MB)

6. Link to Knowledge Discovery and data mining.

Create a Unified Framework for Cartography? 

Cartographic Matrix 

AAG abstract 2004

Research Questions: 

1. What is the minimum layer unit for cartographic design?

One data object vs. One Layer ?

2. How many different cartographic variables should be included for cartographic matrix?

Can we create a universal framework for the study of cartography?  (Chemistry with the Periodic Table?)

(pictures from the http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division

Group Project Presentation 2:00pm-4:40pm