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Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Cartography

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 544-0114/04
Abbreviation Kart
Course title Cartography
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geodesy and Mine Surveying
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jan Kostelecký, DrSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Cartography, structure and relations to other fields, cartographic works, distributions of maps
2. Basic concepts, azimuthal projection, other azimuthal views.
3. Cylindrical projection - common characteristics, Marinov, Mercator,
Lambert, other cylindrical projections.
4.Cone projection - common characteristics, Ptolemy, Lambert,
conformal.
5. False projections - pseudo-azimuthal, pseudo-cylindrical, pseudo-cone
projection.
6. Other projections - polyconical, polyedric and not classified.
7. Ellipsoid on a sphere - projection, coordinates conservation, conformal and other projections.
8. Cartographic projection for geodetic purposes - used in the Czech republic,
proposed for Czechoslovakia, CR
9. Map projection for geodetic purposes - used abroad.
10. Mathematical cartography problems - identification and selection of projection, general
mathematical theory of cartography.
11. Cartographic interpretation - relationship between tag and situation in real,
cartographic interpretation, point, line, areal tags.
12. Cartographic Interpretation of thematic maps - cartograms,
cartodiagrams, dot method, isoline, anamorphosis
13. Cartographic generalization - the nature, factors, methods, automatic
generalization
14. Topographic map content - the basic elements of planimetric, planimetric representation.
15. Interpretation of relief - topographic surface, method of representation
elevation
16. Description of maps - the standardization of geographic nomenclature, graphical elaboration, description of placement.
17. Cartographic design - design, creation of original.
18. Cartographic printing - the printing, the color maps, color printing
19. Cartometry - measuring distances, angles, areas and determining the coordinates
geographic maps
20. Problem solving on maps - determining the morphometric characteristics
visibility, line of constant slope, center of territory.
21. History of cartography - the development of European cartography, our oldest maps.
22. The current Czech map works - large scale maps, ZM, TM, thematic
maps,atlases.
23. World map works - the state of mapping the Earth, the international map works,
international organizations
24. Globes - classification, history, production
25. Other cartographic works - atlases, relief maps, tyflocartography
26. Future of cartography - cartography current challenges, opportunities of
cartography, trends, digital map formats, options, benefits and restrictions, DMT

1. Calculations on a sphere, spherical triangle, ortodroma (Task 1)
2. Azimuthal and cylindrical projection, rhumb line - calculations (2nd task)
3. Cone and false views - calculations
4. Proposal of cartographic view (3rd task)
5. Change view - Redraw
6. Design and evaluation of list of symbols (4th task)
7. Generalization
8. Cartographic typography (5th task)
9. Font - a rate schedule for a font (6th task)
10. Morphometric characteristics
11. Map evaluation.
12. Discussion about cartography and maps
13. TEST
14. Final Workout - Credits


Literature

SLOCUM,T.A.; McMASTER,R.B.; KESSLER,F.C.; HOWARD,H.H.: Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization: International Edition. 3. vyd., Pearson Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, Inc., New Jersey 2008, 576 s.

Advised literature

HAKE, Günter, GRŰNREICH, Dietmar, MENG, Liqiu: Kartographie: Visualisierung raum-zeitlicher Informationen (De Gruyter Lehrbuch). 8. ilustr. vyd., Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2013, 617 s.
SNYDER, John Parr: An album of map projections. Second printing, U.S.Geological Survey professional Paper 1453, 1994, 262 s.
VOŽENÍLEK, Vít: Cartography for GIS. Geovisualization and Map Communication. Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, 2005, 142 s., ISBN 80-244-1047-8