Course Details
Cartography 2
Academic Year 2025/26
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.