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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Cartography II

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 544-0157/01
Abbreviation Kart I
Course title Cartography II
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Geodesy and Mine Surveying
Course coordinator RNDr. Ladislav Plánka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Editorial work and design in the creation and production of cartographic works.
2. Creation of compilation and publishing originals of planar and spatial cartographic works.
3. Copying and copying procedures.
4. Types of printing, offset printing technology.
5. Color theory, their use in cartography.
6. Processing of tone and text templates for printing.
7. Digital technology of cartographic production and digital printing.
8. Post-print work, bookbinding of maps and atlases.
9. Hardware and software security for cartographic production and production.
10. INSPIRE (SDI).
11. World, European and national cartographic displays (links to elevation and positional systems).
12. National and world digital cartographic works and data collections.
13. Archiving and evaluation of cartographic works.
14. Legislation in cartographic production and production.

Literature

KRAAK, Menno-Jan, ORMELING, Ferjan: Cartography: Visualisation of Geospatial Data. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2003, ISBN 978-0-1308-8890-7 

Advised literature

SLOCUM, Terry A, McMASTER, Robert B., KESSLER, Fritz C., HOWARD, Hugh H.: Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization. 3. vyd., New Jersey, Pearson Education, 2008, 576 s.