Course overview
This course is designed for students to enhance their acquired knowledge to communicate geospatial information effectively and efficiently through a web browser. Students will gain skills in internet map creation, cartographic web map design, and communication with online maps. This course is organized around active-learning projects. Course content includes:
Web development and design as a means of cartographic delivery and communication.
System architectures for web maps
Web map elements
Design theory for web maps
Thematic layers (data overlays)
Interaction concepts - Human-Map Interactivity
Web map projections
Mobile GIS
3D Web maps
Web map production (APIs, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript web map libraries)
Web-based spatial analysis
Evaluation of web maps' usability
Course learning outcomes
- Evaluate cartographic design principles of interactive web maps and mapping applications.
- Create effective and readable interactive web maps and mapping applications.
- Manipulate distributed geographic data, communicate the process in a written and digital format and then critically reflect upon the process to further professional development.