Cartography

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	544-0114/09
Abbreviation	Kart
Course title	Cartography
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Geodesy and Mine Surveying
Course coordinator	RNDr. Ladislav Plánka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Geometric basics of cartographic works, map projections.
2. Content elements of map face.
3. Map language, types and creation of cartographic signs, map symbology, sign sets.
4. Methods of cartographic representation planimetric component of a map.
5. Methods of cartographic representation of altimetry.
6. Methods of cartographic representation of text. Geonyms.
7. Methods of cartographic generalization.
8. Basic tasks of cartometry, maps accuracy.
9. World and European cartographic works.
10. Czechoslovak / Czech cartographic works from 1918-1992.
11. State maps of the Czech Republic of medium and small scales.
12. National geodatabase systems.
13. National and world atlases and important thematic cartographic works.

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.,

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