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Scale types, selection and generalization principles classification, simplification, exaggeration week 6. Careers in cartography and gis is published as a service to the discipline by the cartography and geographic information society cagis which is solely responsible for its content. Taking the following 5 principles and applying them to your next map will help you greatly to communicate geographically to your audience with a map they will want to look at. We compared a curved and straight flows, b arrows and tapered line widths to indicate direction, and c flows between nodes and flows between areas. Academic paradigms in cartography 3 degrees in geography with a specialty in cartography. Scale types, selection and generalization principlesclassification, simplification, exaggeration week 6. It is an updated version 2008 of brochures by the same name published in 1998 and 2001. This means that cartography is the whole process of mapping. Cartography is generally a sophomore or junior level course for geography majors and many professors are beginning to introduce computer cartography throughout the course. Chapter 9 cartographic principles from projections to data management to spatial analysis, we have up to now focused on the more technical points of a geographic information system gis. Click download or read online button to get elements of cartography 6th ed book now. Elements of cartography download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi.
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In essence, this chapter shifts the focus away from gis tools and toward cartographic tools, although the two are becoming more and more inextricably bound. Data models for digital cartography vector and raster structures. Full text of topological principles in cartography see other formats. Modern cartography largely involves the use of aerial and, increasingly, satellite photographs as a base for any desired map or chart.
Book aimed to guide the student to understand the language of maps, to enable him to illustrate his own papers, and to give him a foundation if he chooses to become a. Thematic cartography and visualization terry slocum 2nd edition 2004, revised expanded some truth with maps maceachren the roles of maps cartographic language abstracting reality visualization quality and the representation of uncertainty composing the display. The purpose of cartographic design is to focus the attention of the map user. The purpose of our principles is to offer some useful guidelines that we believe are relevant to map design and in many cases will stimulate better cartography.
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