DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY
Course Details
- Lectures: 45 Hours
- Exercise: 15 Hours
- Year: 3
- Semester: V
- Credit hrs: 3
- Full marks: 100
A. Course Objectives
a) To provide modern up-to-date knowledge on digital cartography, digitizers, scanners, workstations, and available software.
b) To introduce digital cartographic visualization and presentation.
c) To introduce digital and web cartographic visualization and presentation.
d) To train to produce digital and web cartographic data as an information system.
B. Course Detail
1. Introduction to Digital Cartography (5hrs)
- 1.1 Digitization
- 1.2 Digital and Numerical Mapping
- 1.3 Vector and Raster data
2. Introduction (5hrs)
- 2.1 Operation and uses of Scanner
- 2.2 Digitizer, workstation, and printers of various cartographic works and materials
3. Spatial Data Algorithms (5hrs)
- 3.1 Basic operations in vector and raster data processing
- 3.2 Transformation
- 3.3 Voronoi diagrams
- 3.4 Polygon overlays
- 3.5 Graph algorithms
- 3.6 Grid Algorithms
- 3.7 Map Algebra
- 3.8 Programming exercise
4. Computational Cartography (5hrs)
- 4.1 Map generalization
- 4.2 Contour Smoothing
- 4.3 Name placement
- 4.4 Cartographic transformation
5. Visualization of Geographic Information (3hrs)
- 5.1 Theory of cartographic Visualization
- 5.2 Colour
- 5.3 Design of paper, digital, and mobile maps
- 5.4 Animation, VR
6. Web and Desktop Mapping (10hrs)
- 6.1 Implementation of maps for Internet
- 6.2 Metadata
- 6.3 Types of webs
7. Topographic Map (10hrs)
- 7.1 Presentation of topography
- 7.2 Multi-scale presentation
- 7.3 Geomorphology in mapping
- 7.4 Soil maps
- 7.5 Nautical charts / Atlases
8. Development of Cartographic Information System (2hrs)
- A project work on designing and implementation of a cartographic information system
Exercise (15hrs)
- Scanning, digitization, vectorization of sheets, preparation, and design of digital topographic maps and thematic atlases.
- Preparation and design of web/internet topographic maps and thematic atlases.
Recommended Reading and Reference Books
- Principles of Interactive Computer Graphic, (1979), W M Newman, R F Sprouli, McGrowhill, New York
- GIS and Generalisation Methodology and Practice, D R Fraser Taylor
- Web Cartography, (2000), M J Kraak, Taylor and Francis
- Digital Cartography, Cromley, R.G., Prentice Hall 1992
- Lecture notes