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
  • tmap: changes in version 2.0
  • useR! International R User 2017 Conference Exploring and presenting maps with **tmap**

• Complete Hands-on Exercise 3. The handout and data sets are available at course eLearn.

Technical References

• How Useful is Tufte for Making Maps?

• More Principles of Map Design

• Proportional Symbols

• Choropleth Maps

• Cartogram

• Using Colors on Maps

• Classification

• Telling the Truth

Application References

• Choropleth Mapping with Exploratory Data Analysis