GEO 423 Cartographic Design and Production
Fall 2007
Instructor:
Ellen White
Office: 104 Geography Bldg
Office Hours: 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, and by appointment
Phone: 353-9875, mailbox: 118 Geography Bldg, e-mail: whitee@msu.edu
Lecture: Tuesday and Thursday, 10:20 a.m. to 11:10 a.m., 201 Geography Bldg.
Lab: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:40 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., 201 Geography Bldg.
Course Objectives: The intent of this course is to provide a basic knowledge of how maps are designed, created, and reproduced. While the major emphasis of the course will be practical map production, we will also build a basic understanding of design theory in cartography. You will develop an understanding of the various technologies used to produce and reproduce maps and apply this knowledge to evaluate products of the map production process. Through the laboratory exercises you will gain familiarity with map production software (Adobe Illustrator, Flash, and Dreamweaver, an introduction to Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft PowerPoint) and various reproduction media (black-and-white and color hardcopy, slides, and the web). During the course you will create a variety of map products for a portfolio to be displayed at a presentation session during finals week.
Attendance: Attendance at both lecture and lab sessions is critical. You will be expected to have completed the reading assignments before the lecture and to participate in class discussions. Lab time is limited and needs to be used efficiently. It will not be possible to complete all projects during scheduled lab sessions. NOTE: FOOD AND BEVERAGES ARE NOT PERMITTED IN THE LAB. Thanks.
Lab Assignments and Course Grading: Lab assignments and any associated files will be available on ANGEL (angel.msu.edu). Take time to read them over before lab begins. Due dates will be clearly stated on the assignment and strictly enforced. Lab assignments may be turned in through ANGEL, e-mail, zip disk, or hard copy, as appropriate.
Final grades will be based on lab exercises (25%), the final project (25%), attendance and participation (5%), and three exams (15% each). Missed deadlines will result in a penalty of 1 point per day for that project.
Texts:
Brewer, Cynthia A., 2005. Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users. Redlands, ESRI Press.
Krygier, John and Denis Wood, 2005. Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. New York: Guilford Press.
additional materials will be made available
Reading Assignments
Introduction
Brewer, pp. 3-11.
Krygier & Wood, pp. 3-45.
Graphic Design Basics
Krygier & Wood, pp. 145-155.
Map Layout, Compilation & Copyright
Brewer, pp. 12-17, 20-29. 165-181.
Krygier & Wood, pp. 125-139.
Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1998. Copyright Basics. http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html
Typography
Brewer, pp. 41-88.
Krygier & Wood, pp. 233-249.
Pocket Pal, pp. 36-54.
Color
Brewer, pp. 91-10.
Krygier & Wood, pp. 255-271.
Projections
Brewer, pp. 18-19
Krygier & Wood, pp. 91-119.
Symbolization
Brewer, pp. 143-162.
Krygier & Wood, pp. 195-227.
Classification
Krygier & Wood, pp. 170-189.
Generalization
Krygier & Wood, pp. 161-169.
Web Design
van den Worm, Jeroen, 2001. Web map design in practice. In Menno-Jan Kraak and Allan Brown (eds), Web Cartography: Developments and Prospects. London: ITC, pp. 87-107. (on file in Reading Room, room 102)
Interactive Cartography/Multimedia/Animation
DiBiase, David, Alan M. MacEachren, John B. Krygier, and Catherine Reeves, 1992. Animation and the role of map design in scientific visualization. Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 19(4): 201-214. (on file in Reading Room, room 102)
Slocum, Terry A., Robert B. McMaster, Fritz C. Kessler, and Hugh H. Howard, 2005. Chapter 20 – Map Animation. In Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization, 2nd edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, pp. 375-388.
Map Reproduction/Printing Processes
Brewer, pp. 30-37.
Pocket Pal, pp. 8-34, 91-155.
Special Needs Mapping (read 2 of the 3)
Anderson, Jacqueline M., 1996. What does that little black rectangle mean”: designing maps for the young elementary school child. In Wood, Clifford and C. Peter Keller (eds.), Cartographic Design: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 103-124. . (on file in Reading Room, room 102)
Vasiliev, Irina, 1996. Design issues to be considered when mapping time. . In Wood, Clifford and C. Peter Keller (eds.), Cartographic Design: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 103-124. . (on file in Reading Room, room 102)
Vasconcellos, Regina, 1996. Tactile Mapping Design and the Visually Impaired User. In Wood, Clifford H. and C. Peter Keller (eds.), Cartographic Design: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 91-102. (on file in Reading Room, room 102)
Map Production & Planning
Brewer, Cynthia A., 2001. Reflections on Mapping Census 2000. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 28 (4): 213-235. (on file in Reading Room, room 102)
Design Evaluation
Krygier & Wood, pp. 277-286.
Gilman, Clarence R., 1982. Map commentary. The American Cartographer 9(2): 173-177. (on file in Reading Room, room 102)
Koch, Tom, 2006. “False Truths”: Ethics and Mapping as a Profession. Cartographic Perspectives 54: 4-15. (on file in Reading Room, room 102)
The following are listed for information purposes, they are not required readings!
General References
Cartographic Perspectives, Journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society.
Dent, Borden D., 1993. Cartography: Thematic Map Design. Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Publishers.
Kraak, Menno-Jan and Allan Brown (eds), 2001. Web Cartography: Developments and Prospects. Enschede, The Netherlands: ITC, Division of Geoinformatics.
International Paper, most recent year. Pocket Pal. Memphis, TN: International Paper.
MacEachren, Alan M. and D.R. Fraser Taylor, 1994. Visualization in Modern Cartography. Tarrytown, NY: Pergamon.
MacEachren, Alan, 1994. Some Truth with Maps: a Primer on Symbolization and Design. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers.
MacEachren, Alan, 1995. How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design. New York: Guilford.
Monmonier, Mark , 1993. Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Patterson, Tom and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, 2004. Hal Shelton revisited: designing and producing natural color maps with satellite land cover data. Cartographic Perspectives 47: 28-55.
Peterson, Michael P., 1995. Interactive and Animated Cartography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentics Hall.
Slocum, Terry A., Robert B. McMaster, Fritz C. Kessler, and Hugh H. Howard, 2005. Thematic Cartography and Geography Visualization, 2nd edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Tufte, Edward, 1983. Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Chesire, CT: The Graphic Press.
Tufte, Edward, 1991. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: The Graphic Press.
Tufte, Edward, 1997. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
Wood, Clifford H. and C. Peter Keller, 1996. Cartographic Design: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
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