GEOG 581: Cartography Design

Session ONE

INTRODUCTION

Questions:

Session TWO

Http://www.fundrace.org

Definition of "Cartographic Design".

Visualization Aspect:

Communication:

Map Making:

User-oriented:

Geographic Information:

Computer-oriented

Four Key Questions: (from Phillip C. Muehrcke, 1996, Chapter 19: The Logic of Map Design, Cartographic Design: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, edited by C. H. Wood and C. P. Keller, Wiley.

Different Types of Maps

Please give an example of each map type

(This picture is modified from Dr. Barbara Buttenfield's lecture notes.)

Questions:  What are the differences among "Thematic Mapping" and "General Reference Maps"?

From Slocum's book (2004):

Is pragmatic maps belong to thematic maps? (according to this definition?)

From Robinson's book (1978):

Can you think of any map example for thematic maps with large scale?

Thematic Maps or Reference Map?

http://maps.yahoo.com/  --> SmartView  (switch between reference maps and thematic maps?

Question:

Computers become a new technology to Cartography after World War II.  

Automated Cartographic Systems"? (D. R. F. Taylor, chapter 1): Despite the wide use of the term there is really no such thing as "automated cartography".  It is true that many mapping agencies are automating processes previously carried out mannually, some of these using computer technology; but the computer will never totally replace the cartographer.

Computer-assisted cartography (C.A.C): (cited from David Rhind, 1980, chapter 3, The nature of computer-assisted cartography):  The first successful attempts to produce graphics from computers were reported in the early 1950s. By the middle of that decades, maps were being produced on the now-standard computer output device, the line printer, on the earliest cathode ray tubes, or on tabulating equipment. ... The vast bulk of the research and development work in C.A.C. to date has been of a technical kind.

Examples:  The SYMAP program, created by Howard T. Fisher and developed at the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis in Harvard University.

http://www.gisdevelopment.net/history/1960-1970.htm

From Slocum's book: (page 1).

Today nearly all maps are produced using computer technology... The consequence including:

1. the ability of virtually anyone to create maps using personal computers.
2. new mapping methods, such as animation;
3. the ability to explore geographic data in an interactive graphic environment
4. the ability to link maps, text, pictures, video, and sounds in multimedia presentations;
5. the ability to create realistic representations of the environment (virtual environments or virtual reality) and the related notion of augmented reality (enhancing our view of the real world through computer-based information); and
6. the ability to access maps and related information via the Web.

Discussion:

(Movie) Virtual Bus Stop. http://www.bpvizcenter.com/media.php

Cost of new technology?

Discussion:

More poor designed maps?

More expensive equipments?

Fewer Cartographers? (Questions?)

Abandon of cartography tradition? What is the cartography tradition?

Meeting at the Richard Wright SAL lab (SH338).

(NO LAB exercises at the first week)

Getting Started at the LAB.

User accounts

Password.

Please post your answers (using online forum) to the following questions:

http://map.sdsu.edu/forum/