An introduction to the art and science of modern cartography
Duration: 5 days
- 5 demo lectures
- 4 explorations
- 2 assignments
Courseware
- Psychogeography
- Exploration 1 Create a dérive
- Geography
- History of Cartography
- Great Trigonometric Survey of India and the Bangalore connection
 - [Geoid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid) - [Coordinates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system): [latitude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude) and [longitude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude) - Positioning: [trigonometry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying), [remote sensing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing), [GPS](http://fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs/es310/GPS/GPS.htm) - [Scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(map)): 1:250,000 small scale (world map), 1:10,000 large scale (street map) - [Projection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection): cylindrical, conic, azimuthal
 - Types of maps - [Pictoral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorial_maps) - [Thematic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_map) - [Topographic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_map) and [Terrain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrain_cartography) - [Chloropleth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choropleth_map) - [Cartogram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram) - [Topological](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_map) - [Animated maps](https://vimeo.com/9182869) - [Interactive maps](http://osm-in.github.io/flood-map/chennai.html#11/13.0000/80.2000) - Map symbology - [Ordanace Survey symbol sheets](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/maps-and-geographic-resources/map-symbols.html) - Data abstraction - **Exploration 2** Create a map of the Bengaluru Airport Bus Network. Focus: utility, data density, clarity
Reading
- 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
- 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
- Jquery
- Callbacks
- AJAX
- JSON
- API
- Jekyll and GitHub Pages
- 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