Lesson03

IS415 GeoSpatial Analytics and Applications

About

Weekly Session

Take-home Exercises

Geospatial Analytics Project

Course Resources

Thematic Mapping and Geovisualisation

Content

• Classification of maps
• Basic principles of map design
• Thematic mapping techniques
  • Proportional symbol map
  • Choropleth map
• Analytical mapping techniques
  • Cartogram
  • Co-location maps
  • Conditional maps
  • Mapping rates

Must do

• Read the following:
  • [tmap: Thematic Maps in R](https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v084i06)

- [tmap](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tmap/index.html) - [tmap: get started!](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tmap/vignettes/tmap-getstarted.html) - [tmap: changes in version 2.0](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tmap/vignettes/tmap-changes-v2.html) - [tmap: creating thematic maps in a flexible way (useR!2015)](http://von-tijn.nl/tijn/research/presentations/tmap_user2015.pdf) - [Exploring and presenting maps with tmap (useR!2017)](http://von-tijn.nl/tijn/research/presentations/tmap_user2017.pdf) - [useR! International R User 2017 Conference Exploring and presenting maps with **tmap**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCRSjbyQT4A)

• Complete