ECTS
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Course details
Course code: IGS10072o11Semester: 2011/2012 summer
Name: Cartography
Major: Geodesy and Cartography
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Halina Klimczak, prof. nadzw. UP
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student gain skills of elaborating topographic and thematic maps. Student is able to choose appropri-ate mapping methods due to presented phenomena. He/She can elaborate maps based on mathe-matical and statistical methods of data processing. Knows the rules of creating thematic maps in GIS software.
Competences: Completion of the course enables to work on maps elaboration in survey and cartographic enterprises, and cartographic publishing house. Gives opportunity to work in public administration that deals with GIS – spatial analysis and thematic mapping.
Prerequisites: Information technology, Informatics, Spatial information systems
Course content: Topographic maps and cartographic data frames. Topographic databases. Thematic maps - classifica-tion. Source of data – metadata. Classification of data according to dimension, occurrence, levels of measurements. Data processing, data aggregation. Mapping methods and their characteristics. Com-puter cartography of cartographic model creation. Maps elaboration. Sozological and hyfrographical maps/databases. Thematic maps generalization.
Recommended literature: Kraak M.-J., Ormeling F., 1998; Cartography. Data Visualisation, PWN Warszawa;
Longley Paul A., i inni, „GIS. Theory and practise.”, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa, 2006.
Assessment methods: Written and oral exam;
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