GGR272H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Esri, Typography, Chinese Script Styles
Document Summary
Map design and elements with a bit of gis. Shapefiles: esri vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. Cartography: study and practice of making maps. Review of the map communication model with some maps. Step 1: consider what the real-word distribution of the phenomenon might look like. Step 2: determine the map purpose and intended audience. The purpose of this analysis is to support the next arctic marine shipping. Step (cid:885): collect data appropriate for the map(cid:495)s purpose. Common to most maps: they have an order of placement. Where to being and end when adding items: elements vary in size and placement based on important and available map space, frame line and neat line, frame line. Defines initial available space to place other map elements: neat line. Not always necessary; frame line can be used to crop: use subtle style single thin black line, size depends on map size and page dimensions.
