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The Map Making Process

Given your course project topic...percent population change in a U.S. state (by county)...headed for a series of animated maps on the WWW...ponder the process...

1. Map Purpose: Introduction to Map Design

• Why are you making your map?
• Who is your map for? who is the audience?
• What is the final medium?
• Importance of evaluation

2. Collect appropriate Mappable Data: This Lecture

• Phenomena and data

• Data layers

• Getting data

• Data organization

• Quantifying data

• Transforming data

• Data accuracy

• Digital data and GIS

3. Map Making Tools

• Map making tools without computers
• Map making on the internet
• Map making with GIS
• Graphic design and other map making tools

4. Geographic Framework

• Map projections
• Map scale
• Map coordinates

5. Map Design

• Map Layout
• Intellectual and Visual Hierarchies
• Map Generalization and Classification
• Map Symbolization
• Type on maps
• Color on Maps
• Finishing Your Map

Mappable Data

• Phenomena and data
  • Making Maps PDF) Ch 3. Phenomena and data (p. 54)

  
  
  

• Data layers
  • Making Maps PDF) Ch 3. Data layers (p. 55)

  
  
  

• Getting data
  • Making Maps PDF) Ch 3. Getting data (pp. 56-59)

  
  
  

• Data organization
  • Making Maps PDF) Ch 3. Data organization (p. 60)

  
  
  

• Quantifying data
  • Making Maps PDF) Ch 3. Quantifying data (p. 61)

  
  
  

• Transforming data
  • Making Maps PDF) Ch 3. Transforming data (p. 62)

  
  
  

• Data accuracy
  • Making Maps PDF) Ch 3. Data accuracy (p. 63)

  
  
  

• Digital data and GIS
  • Making Maps PDF) Ch 3. Digital data and GIS (pp. 64-65)

Important: in the real world data is NOT usually just given to you in a usable format

• you have to go find it, acquire it, and process it into the right format

• ...so let's do that...

Assign Lab 1

• Lab Exercise 1: Mappable Data

E-mail: jbkrygier@owu.edu

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