Lecture-03 - Cartography 101

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Topics

  • GIScience - Methodological Challenges for Representing Geography
  • Data Visualization - Basics of Cartography

Readings

Required

  • Brewer: Chapters 1-2, 7-8

  • Tutorial: Chapter 2, part, pp. 45-62

  • Tufte, Edward. 1990. “Color and Information.” Pp. 81-95 in Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. (Electronic Reserves)

  • Tufte, Edward. 2001 “Data Maps.” Pp. 16-27 in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. (Electronic Reserves)

Optional

  • Borland, David and Russell M. Taylor II. 2007. “Rainbow color map (still) considered harmful.” IEEE computer graphics and applications 27(2). (Link)
  • Brewer, Cynthia A., Alan M. MacEachren, Linda W. Pickle, and Douglas Herrmann. 1997. “Mapping mortality: Evaluating color schemes for choropleth maps.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87(3):411-438. (Link)
  • Olson, Judy M., and Cynthia A. Brewer. 1997. “An evaluation of color selections to accommodate map users with color‐vision impairments.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87(1):103-134. (Link)

Assignments

Due Before Lecture

  • From Lecture-02 - Lab-01 - Introduction to ArcGIS Pro
  • eTicket-03

Due Before Next Lecture

  • Lab-02 - Cartographic Design
  • eTicket-04
  • From Final Project - WP-01 - topic selection