02.2 – Maps / Geovisualization

Presenter

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What will be covered

o   The basic elements of maps

o   Map generalization

o   Connection to visual processing

 

Presentation [notes]

 

Essays [Alpha] [Bravo] [Charlie]


 

Readings 

            Monmonier, How To Lie With Maps, ch 1-3. [pdf]

            MacEachren, How Maps Work, pp 25-50.  [pdf]

 

Suggested

Brewer. (2005).  Designing Better Maps, ch.5  [pdf]

MacEachren & Kraak.  Research Challenges in Geovisualization.  [pdf]

Liben.  Thinking Through Maps.  [pdf]

 

 

Relevant sites/blogs

Cartastrophe

Nine beautiful maps...

Interactive weather map of Earth


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