SUBJECT

Cartographic Software

practical

master

Faculty of Informatics

3

Semester 3

Autumn semester

• Introduction to cartographic software. Basic principles.

• The history of OCAD, older version’s functionality

  • A general overview about OCAD: basic drawing and editing functions

  • Planning symbol sets, creating and editing symbols o Colors and spot colors in OCAD

  • Importing and exporting files. Importing OpenStreetMap data.

  • Printing

  • Database connection and management in OCAD: Shape files

  • Usage of digital elevation models: importing, file formats, contour lines, hypsometry and hill shading

  • GPS data import

  • Layout

  • Internet maps

• OpenStreetMap: the free editable map of the world. Volunteered geographic Information.

• Automations in cartographic generalization:

  • Basic principle of automations on maps.

  • The most important line and polygon generalization algorithms.

  • Point generalization

  • Testing of algorithms in software: ArcGIS and QGIS, mapshaper.org.

• www.ocad.com

• Okada, Alexandra, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Sherborne, Tony (Eds.): Knowledge Cartography, Software Tools and Mapping Techniques Springer, 2014

• Ian Muehlenhaus: Web Cartography: Map Design for Interactive and Mobile Devices, CRC Press, 2013

• Slocum, McMaster, Kessler, Howard: Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization. 2005. Scale and generalization chapter