155CART Cartography

Basic Information

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• Code: 155CART
• Lectures:

prof. Ing. Jiří Cajthaml, Ph.D.

Practical classes:

Mgr. Petra Justová. Ph.D.

lectures per week: 2 hours

• exercises per week: 2 hours
• Credits: 6
• finished with: an exam
• summer semester

Annotation

Literature

1. Slocum, T. A., et al.: Thematic cartography and geovisualization. Prentice Hall, 2008.
2. Brewer, C.A.: Designing better maps. Esri Press, 2005.
3. Field, Kenneth: Cartography: A compendium of design thinking for mapmakers. Redlands, California: Esri Press, 2018.
4. Field, Kenneth: Thematic mapping: 101 inspiring ways to visualise empirical data. Redlands, California: Esri Press, 2022.

Lectures 2025

Tuesday 11AM, B973 (to be updated)

date	topic	lecturer	material
18.02.	Introduction to the course	TJ
25.02.	Mathematical cartography	JC
04.03.	Map language, content and composition	TJ	Slocum – TC&G, p. 90–132
11.03.	Methods of terrain visualisation	JC
18.03.	self-study
25.03.	Thematic maps I, colours and scales in maps	TJ
01.04.	Thematic maps II	TJ
08.04.	History of cartography and state map work	JC
15.04.	self-study
22.04.	Map production process, data sources, INSPIRE, copyright	TJ
06.05.	Colour spaces and reproduction	TJ
13.05.	self-study

Exercises 2024

Mondays, Cs112

Study Materials

Date	Topic	Instructors	Assignment
20. 2.	Course Introduction	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger
27. 2.	ArcGIS Pro Basics, Spatial Data	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 00
6. 3.	Map Projections in Detail	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger
13. 3.	Georeferencing	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 01
20. 3.	Vectorization	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 02
27. 3.	MOOC Cartography (self-study)	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger
3. 4.	Choropleth Maps 1	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 03a
10. 4.	Choropleth Maps 2	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 03b
17. 4. (National Holiday = no class)	-	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 04
24. 4.	Diagram Maps	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 05
29. 4.	Cartograms	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger
15. 5.	Grid Maps, Data Binning	Ing. Vojtěch Cehák, Ing. Josef Münzberger
19. 5.	Webmapping