My office is in the Geography/Geology department (room 260)
on the second floor of this building. The office number is 264
p; the third door on the left after entering the department.
You may leave assignments in my mailbox located on the left side
of the hallway (left side of the bottom row of mailboxes). My
telephone number is 554-4805 or you can leave a message with the
departmental secretary at 554-2662. My e-mail address is geolib@cwis.unomaha.edu
(simply geolib@cwis from the student cwis). If you have any
questions about the course or would like to know your current
grade please see me, give me a call, or send me a message.
ADVANCED CARTOGRAPHIC METHODS is a graduate seminar
in cartography. The course examines advanced methods for the representation
of spatial data. Emphasis is placed on the design of interactive
and animated maps that may be distributed through the Internet.
A particular emphasis of the course is how an urban environment
can be represented on the web. Projects will directed toward the
creation of a map-based web page for Omaha.
SELECTED TOPICS:
1) Netscape and HTML
2) HTML Authoring
3) HGIS
4) Illustration programs
5) Photo-editing programs
6) Movie-editing programs
7) Clickable maps.
8) Multi-Gen Maps.
9) Color Design
COURSE CONDUCT:
Class discussions, based upon reading assignments and designed
to supplement such readings, form the core of the course. Students
are held responsible for all material covered in class and all
assignments and, therefore, absent themselves at their risk.
MATERIALS:
1) Peterson, M.P., (1995) Interactive and Animated Cartography.
Prentice Hall. (a)
2) Peterson, M.P., Introduction to Maps and GIS (to be
distributed in class) (b)
3) Other readings to be distributed.
4) Zip cartridge or CD-ROM ($16 , $9)
5) Color output costs ($2-3)
EXERCISES:
A total of six projects will be assigned. These include:
1) Web Bio Page
2) Paper Map Evaluation
3) Web Map Evaluation
4) Omaha Color Web Map
5) Multimedia Map Product (maps + interaction, animation, sound,
and/or pictures)
6) Research Directions in Cartography
THE CLASS WEB PAGE:
The home page for this course is located at:
The site contains this document, the schedule, the bio-pages,
assignments, and projects.
GRADING:
Final grades will be based upon the assignments. Grading is carried
through on the total points accumulated with 90%, 80%, 70% and
60% representing the approximate cut-offs between letter grades.
Schedule: