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- Cartography
- What is it
- Science of map design
- Long history
- Perspectives on quality
- Visual design
- Bertin - visual variables
- Gestalt Psychology (describe briefly 7 concepts)
- Cartographic communication (From bjørke and MAPQUAL project)
- Communication models briefly
- Visual design
- What is it
- Map types
- Exists common accepted map types
- General vs. thematic maps
- General maps: General audience, variety of features, often made in series of scale (1:50000). Example: Norway N50
- Thematic maps: Specific geographic themes, specific audience, one specific purpose. Examples: Point; Dot maps, proportional symbol maps. Line; Flow maps, isarithmic maps. Area; Choropleth map
- Topographic vs. topological
- Topographic - "standard map", depicts the geography as it is (or close to), size, shape and position are correct.
- Topological - Only topology is preserved. Beck's London underground map. Size, shape are not (necessarily) correct - position is correct relative to each other, but not necessarily topographically correct. Topographic maps are extensions of topological maps (as the relative position is preserved)
- Change in cartography
- Web maps, mobile maps, ubiquitous cartography
- GPS/location services and location awareness
- Trend; participatory map making (i.e. cartography)
- Need a scientific response to usage
- Need guidelines for cartography -> need to understand general quality of cartography
- Quality framework
- Need not describe thoroughly - done in differences MQ vs. SQ
- Intentions
- Response to change in cartography
- Radical
- Language notion
- Introduce concepts not generally common in cartography (technical actor interpretation, organizational quality, learning ...)
- Not finished
- Evaluation/testing needed
- Society needs not elicited / known
- Society acceptance
- Language notion fits cartography?
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