SUBJECT

Thematic Cartography (Lecture)

lecture

master

Faculty of Informatics

3

Semester 2

Spring semester

• Cartographic generalization.

• Overview of data representation techniques. Types of base maps.

• History and development of thematic cartography.

• Data sources, data types and their critical evaluation.

• Characteristics of the field-specific thematic maps. Map types in Geosciences.

• Maps of environmental, economic and social phenomena.

• Thematic maps in education.

• Thematic maps on special-purpose and in communication (e. g. maps in media, in propaganda).

• Thematic atlases.

• Color theories. Maps in black and white.

• Visualization of information. Relationship of graphic symbols and data representation.

• Projections of thematic maps.

• Thematic cartography in Geoinformatics.

• Thematic maps on Internet.

• Editing and processing errors on thematic maps.

• Slocum, McMaster, Kessler, Howard: Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization, Prentice Hall, 2008.

• Dent, Torguson, Hodler: Cartography – Thematic Map Design, McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Suggested literature:

• Tyner, J.: Principles of Map Design, The Guilford Press, 2010.