Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Cartography I

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	544-0156/02
Abbreviation	Kart I
Course title	Cartography I
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Geodesy and Mine Surveying
Course coordinator	RNDr. Ladislav Plánka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Cartography as a science discipline (internal structure, subject of interest).
2. Geometric foundations of cartographic works and cartographic displays.
3. Elements of map field content.
4. Cartographic language, types and creation of cartographic characters, map sign.
5. Methods of cartographic interpretation of the planimetry.
6. Methods of cartographic interpretation of the hypsography.
7. Interpretative use of text, geonyma.
8. Methods of cartographic generalization.
9. Fundamentals and principles of cartographic production and production.
10. Basic cartometric tasks, map accuracy.
11. Principles of creation of thematic cartographic works, (national) thematic maps and atlases.
12 Vector and raster presentation of cartographic works, cartographic work as the basis of GIS.
13. Official (state) maps of medium and large scale (national, European).
14. National geodatabase systems.

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 p.

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 p.
VOŽENÍLEK, Vít: Cartography for GIS. Geovisualization and Map Communication. Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, 2005, 142 s.,

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