An introduction to the art and science of modern cartography

Duration: 5 days

• 5 demo lectures
• 4 explorations
• 2 assignments

Courseware

• Cartography and Visualization - Penn State GEOG 486

• Psychogeography
• Exploration 1 Create a dérive
• Geography
• History of Cartography
  
• Great Trigonometric Survey of India and the Bangalore connection
  

Reading

• Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers

• Data primitives: points, lines, areas
• Cartographic elements
• frame
• metadata
• layering
• pixels
• symbols
• lines
• fills
• text
• Cartographic styling
• Raster
• Color mapping
• Composting
• DEM
• Vector
• Data series
• Exporting maps
• Create a series of maps for your state(A)
• A political map
• A physical map
• A chloropleth map
• Assignment 1

Reading

• A Rare Interview With Graphic Design Legend Massimo Vignelli

• GIS Fundamentals
• Coordinate system: WGS 84 Mercator projection and Web Mercator projection
  
• Data Formats: GeoJSON, Shapefile
• Existing data sources
• Natural Earth
• Bhuvan
• OSM
• NASA
• Map scans
• Working with OSM
• Creating data
• Extracting data
• Converting
• Formats
• Projection
• Geometry
• Combining
• Joining
• Geoprocessing
• Spatial analysis
• Exploration 3

• HTML, CSS and JS

• Display your map using Mapbox GL JS and test locally using the Python SimpleHTTPServer

• Host your map using GitHub Pages

• Style your page using Mapbox base.css

• Add the Mapbox geocoder and url hash

• Explore the Mapbox GL JS API using the browser console

• Interactive coding

• API

• Jquery

• Callbacks

• AJAX

• JSON

• A simple map

• Creating a map view

• Adding map layers

• Adding data layers

• Customizing map controls

• Using Github pages

• Assignment 2: Create an interactive tourist map of your favourite place

• Turf.js
• Tippecanoe
• Mapbox API
• Exploration 4

• QGIS
• Mapbox Studio
• Mapbox.js