Course Details
Cartography 2
Academic Year 2024/25
NEA031 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
6 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Conception and composition of thematic maps.
2. Geoinformatics aspects of thematic maps creation.
3. Cartographic generalization.
4. Cartographic visual expression 1.
5. Cartographic visual expression 2.
6. Specific aspects of visual expressions.
7. Scales in thematic cartography.
8. Methods in thematic cartography 1.
9. Methods in thematic cartography 2.
10. Time-spatial dynamics in maps
11. Cartographic typography.
12. Managing thematic maps and atlases production.
13. Current trends in thematic cartography.
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1.–2. Thematic maps composition. Cartographic representation.
3.–4. Cartographic generalization. Topographic content of the map.
5.–6. Qualitative data visualization.
7.–8. Quantitative data visualization (choropleth map, izoplets, dasymetric map).
9.–10. Quantitative data visualization (proportional map, dot map).
11.–13. Time-spatial dynamics visualization.