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Map Layout

A Brief History of Cartography Sample Maps ArcGIS Layout Exercise

A History of Cartography –First Maps

6200BC

-Catal-Hyuk Map – Wall Painting

Assyria – map of Mesopotamia (2500 B.C.) on a clay tablet.

(interpretation)

600BC - Babylonia – first map with world surrounded by the sea and heavenly bodies (interpretation

th 6 century B.C. - first Greek map ascribed to Anaximander – no details survive Plato – first to put earth as sphere- 400BC Erasthosthenes- 250BC-measures the Earth’s circumference accurately – concept of grids 450 BC - First Map in western literature: Herodotus

Exploration of the Americas

Columbus ‘discovers’ Americas (1492) “America” (1562) – Diego Gutierez Mercator’s world map (1569) Rational Revenue assessment system in RajaTodarmal, based on surveyed holdings (1571)Mexico City (1597)

from the German Sebastian

Meunster’s Cosmographia Universalis NE Coast (1607) – Champlain Galileo draws Sun centered universe (1609)

History (continued)

Jerusalem (1660’s) Royal Observatory at Greenwitchestablished (1675) – prime meridianNew England (1685) – Dutch Nova Scotia (1771) Upper Missouri Basin (1882) – Indians’

Design & Layout

Intended Audience^ „^

multiple designs are possible! Map Purpose, Intended Message^ „^

visual hierarchy of map elements „^

appropriate projection „^

judicious use of decorations (don’t diminish content) Media, Resolution, and Viewing Distance^ „^

adjust type and line sizes to suit „^

adjust colors to media & test maps in final media Design^ „^

balance empty spaces in layout „^

avoid unthinking use of boxes around map elements „^

refine alignment to clean up map design „^

experimentation and critique in improving design

Elements of a Map

Main Map View Locator Map Title and Subtitles Legends Scale Indicator Orientation Indicator Graticule

Explanatory Text Source Note Neatlines Projection info Publisher, year, etc. Charts, Tables,Photos & Graphs Lables

National Parks - Grand Canyon

Rio Colorado (1858) shaded relief USGS (1873) Panorama from Pt. Sublime (1882) Geology (1882) National Park (1926) relief

National Parks - Yellowstone

Geology (1878) Radar Mosaic (1968) Fire Damage (1988)

US Environmental Data

Maine Coast Wetlands (1979) - NWI Irrigated Agricultural Land (1987) Water Withdrawls (1990) – 3D Impaired Waters – Texas Boston Population „^

Dots „^

Circles „^

Density

Baltimore Harbor

Watershed Management Study SWMM Model Nonpoint Source Modeling Figures^ „

Chapters 1-3 „ Chapters 4-5 „ Appendix C