Standing orders: (1) Read 10 pages of Thrower per class, i.e., 30 pages per week. (2) Assignments are due one week after they are assigned.
| Week | Topic, Readings, and Assignment |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introductions of course, requirements, instructor & students
Reading: S. S. Hall "Latitude, Longitude, Infinitude: Scientific Mapping and the Reinvention of Geography" ; A. M. MacEachren "The Roles of Maps"; ; Thrower (Skim all, and start) Assignment: Compare Some On-Line Maps. |
| 2 | Earth Models: measuring and representing its size and shape.
latitude, longitude, and scale.
Reading: Robinson and Sale Elements of Cartography (3rd ed) ch 2; Wikipedia "World Geodetic System" Thrower Assignment: Checking Eratosthenes, Cassini and Newton in Google Earth Earth shape and distances in Google Earth. |
| 3 | Location, Direction and Distance on the Earth (Bees do it.)
Reading: Robinson ch 2, 10; Thrower Assignment: compass and pacing exercise Add GPS location element |
| 4 | Map Projections: concepts, properties and examples
Reading: Robinson and Sale (3rd ed) ch 10; Flater "Understanding Geodetic Buffering"; Thrower Assignment: Distance, shape and area distortions on world map projections. |
| 5 | Intro to QGIS (making a choropleth map of world population density)
Reading: Thrower Assignment: QGIS, choropleth maps, classes, and projections |
| 6 | Topographic Maps and Symbology
Reading: USGS National Map Website; Thrower Assignment: Reading contours and slope, route planning and hillshading on topographic maps: Topo Map Use |
| 7 | Map Coordinate Systems: UTM, SPCS, National Grid,
Reading: Robinson 3rd ed. ch 10; Thrower Assignment: Conversion between Coordinate Systems |
| 8 | Remotely Sensed Imagery: Photographs, Scanners etc w/ image geometry.
Reading: Rindfuss and Stern "Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science: The Need and the Challenges" ch 1 in NRC's People and Pixels; S. S. Hall "Ground Truth: Landsat Maps and the Remote Sensing Revolution" in Mapping the Next Millenium; Thrower Assignment: Image Interpretation in Google Earth and Bing. Mid-Term about here |
| 9 | Remotely Sensed Imagery: Photographs, Scanners and More
Reading: Cowen and Jensen "Extraction and Modeling of Urban Attrbutes Using Remote Sensing Technology" ch 8 in NRC's People and Pixels; Thrower Assignment: SKIP---Extracting data as .kml from Google Earth & integrating it with other data in QGIS here DO Photogrammetry and Image Classification instead. |
| 10 | GIS Analysis in QGIS
Reading: Assignment: Congressional Gerrymandering? using QGIS geometry functions. |
| 11 | Making it look good!
Reading: Robinson and Sale Ch 11 "Cartographic Design"; Assignment: new -- QGIS or inkscape and SVG? |
| 12 | Scale, Resolution and Space in a Digital World
Reading: Robinson and Sale Ch 6(1/2); Goodchild and Proctor 1997 "Digital Scale"; Term project idea proposal due. |
| 13 | Space more generally: absolute, relative, relativistic, other
Reading: TBA on Space; Assignment: MDS and lived spaces |
| 14 | Map representation: Truth v Statement: Ontological Status of Maps
and Social implications and Recap
Reading: S. S. Hall "Elephants for want of towns"; J.K. Wright "Map Makers are Human"; Assignment: keep going Term project draft due. |
| 15, 16 | Student Project Presentations
Reading: Assignment: be done! |
| Finals | Final Exam (Scheduled as per the University Calendar): Friday, 10 May 2013 2:15-4:15 PM in our normal classroom |