155CART Cartography

Basic Information

• 2 hours lectures per week
• 2 hours exercises per week
• 6 credits
• finished with an exam
• summer semester

Anotation

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

Lecturers: Ing. Tomáš Janata, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Jiří Cajthaml, Ph.D.

topic	presentation
1. Mathematical cartography I	Lecture 1
2. Mathematical cartography II	Lecture 2
3. Characteristics of cartography, cartographic works	Lecture 3
4. Map language, content and composition	Lecture 4
5. Thematic maps I	Lecture 5
6. Thematic maps II, colours and scales in maps	Lecture 6
7. History of cartography	Lecture 7
8. Topographic surveys of the Czech lands	Lecture 8
9. State map work I	Lecture 9
10. State map work II	Lecture 10
11. Project of a cartographic work, copyright	Lecture 11
12. Colours, colour spaces and reproduction	Lecture 12

Exercises

Thursdays, B973

Date	Topic	Instructors	Assignment
23. 2.	Course Introduction	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger
2. 3.	Geographic vs. Projected Coordinate System	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger
9. 3.	Map Projections in Detail	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 01
16. 3.	Georeferencing, Geocoding	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger
23. 3.	Data Resource Overview	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger
30. 3.	Principles of Map Design	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger
6. 4.	no exercise, the Dean Day
13. 4.	Thematic Mapping	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 02
20. 4.	Choropleth Maps	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 03
27. 4.	Diagram Maps	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 04
4. 5.	Grid Maps, Data Binning	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger
11. 5.	Cartograms, Multivariate Mapping	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger	Assignment 05
18. 5.	ArcGIS Online, sharing data from ArcGIS Pro	Mgr. Petra Jílková, Ing. Josef Münzberger