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.