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