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What is geography?
Analyzes and explains human and environmental phenomena and processes taking place on the earths surface
What is cartography?
Develops the theories, concepts, and skills for describing and visualizing the things and events or patterns and processes from geography
What is scale?
How close objects are on paper or on the screen depends on the relationship between the size of the representation and the actual are on the ground
What are the three most common types of maps?
thematic, topographic, cadastral
What is a thematic map?
show specific topics and their geographic relationships and distributions
What is a topographic map?
show physical characteristics of land in an area and the built changes in the landscape
What is an example of a thematic map?
weather forcast, election results, poverty, soil types, the spread of a virus
What is a cadastral map?
show how land is divided into real property, and sometimes the kinds of built improvements
What is GIS?
Geographic Information systems- concerned with the underlying theories and concepts of geographic information
Cartographic framework
set of normative and acceptable ways for showing things, events, space, relationships and associations
Conventions
the actual ways of representing and communicating in maps and geographic information (unstated guidelines for representation)
Projections
how geographic locations on the round earth are shown on a flat map or coordinate system-- biggest choices affecting quality
Coordinate system
related to a projection, especially pertinent for geographic information, which can easily be combined with other geographic information when its in the same projection
Symbols
how things and events are communicated-- affects quality
Geographic representation
Deciding how to show things and events
Cartographic representation
can support various representations, contingent on a number of parameters--notably scale
Geographic information is NOT
data
For data to become information...
it must put relationships with a purpose and (potential) use
Things refer to
static and undynamic representations of something in the world
Events refer to
dynamic changes
Frameworks are
rules and procedures for dealing with the complexity of choices