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Archived or compressed; need to un-archive before you use it |
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| Shape file, minimum of 4 files which constitute a single interpretable data set for the computer |
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Open standard format for encoding collections of simple geographical features along with non-spatial attributes using JavaScript Object Notation. Written and maintained by working group of developers. |
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| KML (Keyhole Markup Language): |
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File format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser. (Google Earth, Google Maps)
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| Local search and discovery service mobile app which shows the best places to eat, drink, entertain and enjoy in the city’ boundaries based off of people’s reviews and ratings. |
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| Census Bureau’s online, self-service tool designed to search a variety of population, economic, geographic, and housing information |
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Installed on your desktop and has more user-control |
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| Cloud-Based, accessed through web-interface or app on your phone |
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| Basic platform for ARCGIS.com, what we used for M4 |
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| Arcs move into the online mapping world. Industry standard GIS platform, very expensive and powerful. Within it are programs which includes ArcMap |
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| Enables anyone to find, use, and share geographic data and maps. Creates rich interactive visualizations to solve problems without any experience using traditional mapping tools. |
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| Free and open software accessible to everyone |
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| Application Programming Interface, interfaces to the data screens created by web applications |
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| graphic representations that facilitate a special understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or events. |
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| the producing of maps that representing different things |
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| a cognitive function that orders the world |
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| the study of the spatiality of physical and human processes |
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| a concept of tension between two notions: space as a pre-existent and spaces as made/produced |
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| Geographic information systems – allows you to map larger quantities of fata within a single database according to their location |
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| prioritizing subjects on top of one another; darker black box has the highest contrast so it should be designed around 1st. |
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| figure ground relationship |
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| perceptual grouping which identifies figures from the background. (Hourglass/faces). Allows mappers in 2d pieces. |
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| the building blocks for map symbols (size, shape, color, pattern, orientation |
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| main property of color, pure colors without tint or shade; degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are red, green, blue, purple, yellow, and orange |
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| lightness or darkness of tones or colors. White is the lightest value and black is the darkest value. (different shades of red- crimson, bright, red-orange) |
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| How bright or dull a color is. Brightest intensity would be the pure color from the color wheel and dullest would be where you cant even discern the color other than it looks grey. |
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| maps which focuses attention to a specific theme |
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| maps where area is the symbol |
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| maps with the dynamism of flow between places (Radial, Network, Distributive) |
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| maps with values by proportional area |
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| Maps with opinion with explicit intent |
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| Made by Harley, maps as a biography. Just like D&E exercise. Own personal biography, maps itself as a material object having a biography (distribution of the physical object), mapmakers have a biography, and biography of the geography it represents |
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| bigger than geo-web data. Any mapping content that is created by a user |
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| As maps migrate onto the web, they are no longer the exclusivity of the cartographer |
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| web-based data and web-based map (map hacking, maps 2.0) |
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| Using Google Maps on individual web sites – fast and easy way to add geographic information to personal web sites. |
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| map communication model (mcm) |
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| mapping is a process of transmitting geographic information via the map from the cartographer to the end-user. |
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| ratio on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. |
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| measurement and representation of the size and shape the Earth and the location of the points on its surface |
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| The shape the surface of the oceans would take under the influence of the Earth’s gravitation and rotation alone, in the absence of winds and tides. |
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| grid you use to locate objects |
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| enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers and letters to represent vertical and horizontal position. |
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| East-west; parallel to the equator on a map |
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| Allows you to pick a zone of a country and will represent special information to that region. Allows you to target specific area in Mercator maps |
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| North/South – perpendicular to the Equator |
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| East-west; parallel to the equator on a map |
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| set of 124 geographic or coordinate systems designed for specific regions in the United States. Each state contains one or more state plane zones, the boundaries of which usually follow country lines. Based on transverse Mercator or Lambert conic. |
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| selecting general things from an area and making it into an map (Just selecting the Armory, Whitehall, POT to map) |
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| Knowledge resides with the individual citizens, who are experts of their own local environment |
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| The gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology and those that don’t or have restricted access. |
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| Maps exploring different demographic, geographic segmentation data |
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| Gall Projection is the same as Peters but ~ 100 years sooner. |
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| Peters projection challenges the traditional Mercator projection |
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| Dominant map projection, used in all web-based projections |
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| Created the Map Communication Model, communicative, functionalistic |
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| Focused on mapping processes |
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| San Francisco map, uses Craigslist data and produced the 1st “mapping mashup” |
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| Critical cartography/critical mapping; understanding the way in which cartographic knowledge is always connected to power. “Maps as a Biography” |
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