ATS2780 Lecture 12: Exam Topics
25 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
ATS-2780 Chanel Quach-Yan
Exam
Section A – Multiple Choice Questions
• Choose all of above if option
• 20 MC questions (2%)
Section B – Short Answer Questions
• Ten short answer questions
• Answer any Six (each questions 10%)
• E.g. Why is map generalisation necessary and why does it involve so much
more than line simplification?
• As a model of geographical space, what are the characteristics of a map?
o Projection
o Symbology
Lecture 2
Map projections – curved surface → flat surface
• Different projections
• Each preserve one thing
o Mercator: shape
▪ Preserve size but relative area is distorted
▪
o Preserve area of area but not shape
• However, distort / lose another thing
o Mercator: orientation
• Know what is good about it
• What’s bad about it
Conical
• Cone →
o Parallels: arcs of circle
o Good for high latitude
Socio-economic space
• Distance decay – prac C
• How does space define economic and social relations
Behavioural space
Experimental space
Lecture 3
• What is a map
o Model of space
• Why use a map
• How to represent and visualise the world using maps?
• How to address ethical issues when using maps
• Understand differences between general purpose maps and thematic maps
o General purpose: topographic map
o Thematic: particular outcomes and presenting it on a map
• Explain different types of thematic maps and how they are used to represent
geographical data
• Understand the geographical coordinate systems and the concept of map
projection
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
ATS-2780 Chanel Quach-Yan
• Understand the concept of map scale and its impacts on cartographical
representation
o Map of Monash university – large scale map
▪ More detail
• Understand area aggregation, including its assumptions, major uses,
advantages and problems
o Area aggregation:
▪ Privacy issues, aggregate into areas
▪ Local government area will have overall total population
Lecture 4
• Map design process
• Principles of map deisng
• Map symbology
• Understand the map design process: selection, classification, symbolisation,
and layout design
• Understand the need for data classification and methods for classifying
categorical and quantitative data for cartographic representation
Lecture 5
• Elements of geographical inquiry
o Occurrences → phenomena
o Ontologies – ways of classifying
▪ Different classifications
o Epistemology – how we know what we know
▪ Science: there is scientific method
▪ Concept of time
o Paradigms – accepted modes of investigation
• Empiricism
o Information acquired via the senses
o What is an empirical result
▪ Surveys, measurements, photos
o What is not an empirical result
▪ Calculations, simulations, predictions
▪ Since based on predicting, modelling
• Positivism
• Non-positivism
• Reductionism
o Idea that can take big complex system and see it as some of its parts
o Emergent behaviour predictable
o If broken down to simple models can predict how class behaves
• Models
o Simplified versions of reality – tools for thinking
o Some aspects of reality preserved, others transformed
▪ RECOGNISE limitations of any given model
o Types
▪ Scale models
• E.g. globe
▪ Simulation models
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
Document Summary
Section a multiple choice questions: choose all of above if option, 20 mc questions (2%) Section b short answer questions: ten short answer questions, answer any six (each questions 10%, e. g. Why is map generalisation necessary and why does it involve so much more than line simplification: as a model of geographical space, what are the characteristics of a map, projection, symbology. Conical: cone , parallels: arcs of circle, good for high latitude. Socio-economic space: distance decay prac c, how does space define economic and social relations. Chanel quach-yan: either physical (computerised, mathematical models, work out mathematical relationships between them, conceptual models, draw things out on paper and connect concepts together, representation on paper. Idealised states: organised, e. g. sustainable tourism, tourist destination x is a model of sustainable tourism, reading: minshull (1975) definitions and types of models. Semiotics: how symbols really relate to conceptions of particular object.
