Geography 8670:  Advanced Cartographic Methods

Schedule
Week     Topic               Readings            Assignment Due

Aug. 26  Introduction to Seminar
     28  HTML                Chapter 1(b)
Sept. 4  Illustration        Chapter 5(a)
         Illustrator demos:
            : Lines (simple, curved, attributes, double)
            : Shapes (circles, squares, polygons, outlined, shaded)
            : Text (size, font, style, placement)
            : Tracing from background (manual, auto)
            : Size, Rotation, and other Tricks
      9  Photoshop (Peterson, Todd, Swanson,                   )                                  
     11  Peterson Map Eval: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
         Bio Page due (place in folder on Mac 7100)
     16  Map Evaluation Presentations  (3 paper maps)  Map Eval.
     18  Map Evaluation Presentations                  Map Eval.
     23  Meaning of Mapping  Chapter 2(b), Chapter 1,2(a)
     25  Interact & Anim     Chapter 3(a), 8(a), 9(a)                   
     30  Multimedia & Hypermedia Chapter 7(a)
Oct.  2  Printing of Color Map (Barton)
      7  Comp Map & GIS      Chapter 3(b)
      7  Computer Mapping    Chapter 4(a)	 
	       Map due as color print and GIF document suitable for web.
                                  
                          INTERACTION

      9  Interactive Maps    Chapter 10(a)
      9  Image Maps on the Web
     14  Interactive web map evaluation
     16  Interactive web map evaluation
     21  Remote Sensing      Chapter 4(b), Chapter 6(a)
     23       
     28       
     30      

                           ANIMATION

Nov.  4   Animation 	         Chapter 8-Peterson(a)
      6    Designing maps for the web
     11  Research Directions
     13  Frontier of Mapping Chapter 12-Peterson(a)
     18  No Class - GIS/LIS     
     20  No Class - GIS/LIS 
     25  
Dec.  2  
      4  
      9  
     11  

Dec. 18  Final  1:00-3:00 PM