Cartography

What are the three tools used to analyze air photos?

(1) stereoscopic camera, (2) stereogram, and (3) stereoscope

List the four associated documents with ArcView

(1) views, (2) tables, (3) charts, and (4) layouts

STATE PLANE COORDINATE SYSTEM

a system for specifying geographic position using a grid

GENERAL PURPOSE MAP

cadastral maps used to identify land ownership

What is the instrument that developed portolan charts?

compass

THEMATIC MAP

data associated with points

When was the world first considered round?

first thought by Pythogoras (550 BC) and first accepted by Aristotle (350 BC)

SCALE PROJECTION

indicates the relationship between a certain distance on the map and the distance of the ground

PHOTOGRAMMETRY

is the science, art, technology of obtaining reliable measurements, maps, and digital elevation models

What is the 1450 invention that contributed to the growth of cartography?

printing press

What is the true shape of the earth?

spherical, 24,902 miles

Name three major mapping houses and where are they headquartered

(1) Bartholomeu - England, (2) Justiceperthes - Germany, and (3) Rand McNally - United States

GEOGRAPHIC POSITIONING SYSTEMS

(1) control segment, (2) space segment, and (3) user segment

List the five components of GIS

(1) data acquisition, (2) pre-processing, (3) data management, (4) manipulation analysis, and (5) product generation

List the three sciences that comprise cartography

(1) geography, (2) psychology, and (3) geodesy

List the four methods of communication?

(1) literacy, (2) articulacy, (3) numeracy, and (4) graphicacy

Name the three types of developable surfaces and what they preserve

(1) plane - distance, (2) cone - area, (3) cylinder- direction

Name the three types of spatial objects

(1) points, (2) lines, and (3) polygons

What are the three ways to represent scale?

(1) ratio or representative function, (2) word segment, and (3) graphic scale - most widely used

List five things that contributed to Cartography in the 1800s

(1) real world, (2) encoder symbolism, (3) map, (4) signal, and (5) decoder recipient

List the seven visual variables

(1) shape, (2) size, (3) pattern, (4) tone, (5) texture, (6) shadows, and (7) site

Name two types of data in GIS

(1) spacial - points, lines, and polygons, and (2) non-spatial data - tabular

MAP

a drawn representation of geographical space

PORTOLAN CHART

accurate sailing chart with the combination of the use of a compass to configure accurate distances of coastlines

LONGITUDE

measure east and west meridian lines equal to that of Greenwich

LATITUDE

measures north and south parallel lines equal to that of the equator

REMOTE SENSING

obtaining information about an object, area, or phenomenon through the analysis of data acquired by a device that is not in contact with the area, object or phenomenon under investigation

What term analyzes air photos?

photogrammetry

CARTOGRAPHY

the whole process of putting together points, lines, and polygons on a map that make it observable