PřF:Z8188 Web Cartography - Introduction - Course Information

Z8188 Introduction to Web Cartography

Extent and Intensity

1/2. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Tomáš Řezník, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Tomáš Řezník, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science

Timetable

Tue 18:00–18:50 Z2,01032

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

Z8188/01: Tue 16:00–17:50 Z1,01001b, T. Řezník

Prerequisites (in Czech)

PROGRAM(N-GK)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Geographical Cartography and Geoinformatics (programme PřF, N-GK)

Course objectives

This subject is focused on the field of Web Cartography with primary aim to learn the main theoretical and practical approaches in this field of study. Therefore, lectures are tightly coupled with practice. Student will be able to create its own Web pages in XHTML source code with wide variety of included Web maps at the end of the study. At the same time student will collaborate in more complex team projects from Web cartography.

Syllabus

• Lectures: 1. Internet and Web: history and its influence 2. Basic formats used on the Web (XHTML, GIF, JPG, PNG, Flash, SVG, VML) 3. Map usage on the Web 4. Map use on the Web 5. Cartographical principles of Web publication 6. Web maps and atlases 7. API in Web publication (Google Maps, Atlas Maps) 8. Client systems (Zoomify, AxioMap) 9. Server systems (MapServer, GeoServer, ArcGIS Server) 10. Actual geoinformatical trends on the Web (WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, etc.) Practice: 1. Creation of valid Web pages 2. Creation of valid cascading style (CSS) 3. Raster map optimalization 4. Client system Zoomify 5. Client system AxioMap 6. ECMAScript 7. Google Maps API - individual and project 8. Atlas Maps API 9. WMS in thick and thin clients 10. GeoServer - project in groups of 4-5 students

Literature

• Web cartography : developments and prospects. Edited by Menno-Jan Kraak - Allan Brown. 1st pub. London: Taylor & Francis, 2001, ix, 213 s. ISBN 0-7484-0869-X. info
• Maps and the internet. Edited by Michael P. Peterson. 1st ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, xvi, 451. ISBN 0080449441. info
• JavaScript : a beginner's guide (Orig.) : JavaScript : příručka programátora. info
• Adobe Flash CS3 : oficiální výukový kurz. Vyd. 1. Brno: Computer Press, 2008, 341 s. ISBN 9788025121092. info
• CEDERHOLM, Dan. Flexibilní webdesign : vytváříme přizpůsobitelné a přístupné stránky pomocí XHTML a CSS. Vyd. 1. Brno: Computer Press, 2006, 227 s. ISBN 8025110184. info
• ZELDMAN, Jeffrey. Tvorba webů podle standardů XHTML, CSS, DOM, ECMAScript. Vyd. 1. Brno: Computer Press, 2004, 410 s. ISBN 8025103471. info
• DRUSKA, Peter. CSS a XHTML : tvorba dokonalých webových stránek krok za krokem. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2006, 200 s. ISBN 8024713829. URL info
• http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/, http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML, http://www.zoomify.com/, http://www.opengeospatial.org/

Teaching methods

Lectures about the maps and technologies on the Web supported with the creation of the web maps while using technologies mentioned in the lectures

Assessment methods

Written and practical test.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2012, recent)
  
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