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Business and Social Sciences Division
GEOG 73DYNAMIC & INTERACTIVE MAPPINGSummer 2013
2.5 hours lecture, 6 hours laboratory.4.5 Units
Total Quarter Learning Hours: 102 (Total of All Lecture, Lecture/Lab, and Lab hours X 12)
 
 Lecture Hours: 2.5 Lab Hours: 6 Lecture/Lab:
 Note: If Lab hours are specified, see item 10. Lab Content below.
Repeatability -
Statement: Not Repeatable.
Status -
 Course Status: InactiveGrading: Letter Grade with P/NP option
 Degree Status: ApplicableCredit Status: Credit
 Degree or Certificate Requirement: Stand Alone Course
 GE Status: Non-GE
Articulation Office Information -
 Transferability: CSUValidation: 07/01/2007
1. Description -
Design and implementation of dynamic presentations for visualizing geographic information. Lab projects creating animated and multimedia presentations, and designing user-interfaces for interactive mapping systems.
Prerequisites: GEOG 12 & 52 or equivalent.
Co-requisite: None
Advisory: None

2. Course Objectives -
The student will be able to:
  1. Explain and apply principles of interactive and dynamic mapping
  2. Discuss cartographically-specific Web technologies, including Internet Mapping Systems (IMS)
  3. Critically evaluate cartographic user interfaces and animations
  4. Design and create interfaces for interactive mapping systems
  5. Design and create animations for dynamic cartographic presentations
3. Special Facilities and/or Equipment -
Access to computers and the Internet, animation software, and Internet Map Server software.

4. Course Content (Body of knowledge) -
  1. Interactive and Dynamic Mapping
    1. Nature of interactive and dynamic maps
    2. Transition to dynamic mapping from static mapping
    3. Evolution of cartographic design principles
  2. User Interface Design
    1. Principles of user interface design
    2. Application to geographic visualization and interactive mapping
  3. User Interface Development
    1. Basic web design and programming techniques
      1. HTML
      2. JavaScript
    2. User interface controls
    3. Controlling geographic presentations
  4. Mapping and the Internet
    1. Markup Languages
      1. HTML and XML
      2. Geography Markup Language (GML)
    2. Mapping on the Web
      1. Internet Map Servers (IMS)
      2. Web server based GIS
      3. GIS Web Services
  5. Cartographic Animation and Multimedia
    1. Cartographic animation
    2. Frame-based versus Cast-based animation
    3. Dynamic map symbolization
    4. Principles of animation applied to geographic visualization
    5. Designing cartographic animation
  6. Software applications
5. Repeatability - Moved to header area.
 
6. Methods of Evaluation -
  1. Two objective, in-class exams.
  2. Ten laboratory exercises
  3. Final project
  4. Written assignments
    1. Written evaluation of each laboratory exercise.
    2. Written paper accompanying the final project describing the project and assessing the effectiveness of the design.
7. Representative Text(s) -
Fu, Pinde and Jiulin Sun. Web GIS: Principles and Applicaitons. ESRI Press, Redlands, CA. 2010.
Cooper, Alan, and Reimann , Robert. About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design. Wiley. New York. 2003.
Norman, Donald. Design of Everyday Things. Bantam. New York. 1989.
Cox, S., Daisey, P., Lake, R., Portele. C., and Whiteside, A. OpenGIS?Ü Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Specification. Open GIS Consortium. (Available as a PDF from http://www.opengeospatial.org/). 2005.
DiBiase, D.W., MacEachren, A.M., Krygier, J.B., and Reeves, C. Animation and the role of map design in scientific visualization. Cartography and GIS, 19, pp. 201-214. 1992.
Monmonier, Mark. Strategies for the visualization of geographic time series data. Cartographica, 27, pp. 30-45. 1990.
Monmonier, Mark. Authoring graphic scripts: experiences and principles. Cartography and GIS, 19, pp. 247-260. 1992.

8. Disciplines -
Geography
 
9. Method of Instruction -
Lecture, Laboratory.
 
10. Lab Content -
Hands on exercises in which student creates a web based GIS. Individual exercises covering content areas including:
  1. Interactive and Dynamic Mapping
    1. Nature of interactive and dynamic maps
    2. Transition to dynamic mapping from static mapping
    3. Evolution of cartographic design principles
  2. User Interface Design
    1. Principles of user interface design
    2. Application to geographic visualization and interactive mapping
  3. User Interface Development
    1. Basic web design and programming techniques
      1. HTML
      2. JavaScript
    2. User interface controls
    3. Controlling geographic presentations
  4. Mapping and the Internet
    1. Markup Languages
      1. HTML and XML
      2. Geography Markup Language (GML)
    2. Mapping on the Web
      1. Internet Map Servers (IMS)
      2. Web server based GIS
      3. GIS Web Services
  5. Cartographic Animation and Multimedia
    1. Cartographic animation
    2. Frame-based versus Cast-based animation
    3. Dynamic map symbolization
    4. Principles of animation applied to geographic visualization
    5. Designing cartographic animation
  6. Software applications
 
11. Honors Description - No longer used. Integrated into main description section.
 
12. Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing and Outside of Class Assignments -
  1. Read assigned chapters in the text and answer end of chapter questions
  2. Papers and projects involving critical thinking and analytical oral and/or written skills including consideration of events and ideas from multiple perspectives utilizing tools relevant to the discipline such as maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
13. Need/Justification -
This course is a required course for the Web Mapping Certificate of Proficiency.

Course status: Inactive
Last updated: 2013-02-26 14:12:32
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