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24 Cards in this Set
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Cartographic Elements
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Visual hierarchy
Made to make it easier for the viewer to gather information Visual flow Visual contrast All of these are the art of the map Colorbrewer website |
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Map schemes- Qualitative
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No gradation distanced groups
Example: soda pop map |
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Map schemes- Sequential
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Low value light color
High value dark color Goes in one directions |
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Map schemes- Divergent
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Opposite directions
Light red and dark red w. light blue and dark blue Example: Politics map |
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Cartograms
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Distorts map physically depending on the higher area of data
Political population map Does not go by scale but by data amount But there are still the same boundaries |
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Cartogram Types- Non contiguous
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When the objects to not have to stay attached and they grow and shrink depending on the data
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Cartogram Types- Contiguous
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Objects remain connected with each other but that can distort the shape.
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Cartogram Types- Dorling
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Does not maintain shape or topology
Uses different shapes to show the new map |
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Cartogram Types- Pseudo
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Look like cartograms but do not follow cartogram rules.
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Thematic map
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Focuses on a specific theme based off a general map to show data about a specific area.
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Reference maps
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a general map
shows roads, landmarks, bodies of water and ... |
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Metadata
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Data about data on the map
Click on something and a link comes up with information about the “road” Takes the audience deeper Makes data on map useful When layered you can see intersections |
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Types of Metadata- Descriptive
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Info. Used to search for things like the title and author
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Types of Metadata- Administrative
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Technical information such as file type
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Types of Metadata- Structural
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Describe the structure of the computer systems
Tables, charts, ect. |
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Types of Metadata- Tactual
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Internet metadata
Outside sources |
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Cyber infrastructure
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Physical stuff that makes up the internet
Data centers Fibrotic cabling Hurtzian (megahertz) in space that lets wireless happen Electro magnetic spectrum |
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Remote Sensing
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Locate, find from a far distance
Ariel views (airplane, satellite) Inferred Sonar (sound) Doppler map (weather) GPS |
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GI Science
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Study of the steps that it takes to make a GIS
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GIS
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is geographic information systems
The software Google earth |
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Geographic relevance
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is the degree to which information in a representation of geographic space either matches a user's implicit or explicit (expressed as a query) information need and to which it supports decision-making or problem solving
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CAD
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Computer aided design
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PASDA
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Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access
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FGDC
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Federal Geographic Data Committee
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