CARTOGRAPHY PROJECTS

Geography 4100: Cartographic Techniques

Department of Geography & Earth Sciences

UNC-Charlotte

Taught by: Laurie A.B.Garo, Spring Semester, 1998


The project for Spring, 1998 was to a create color map with complex layers of polygons. The area to be mapped was selected by individual students. The map projects include population density, and climatic themes. The project involved tracing from a source map onto a base with a different projection, scanning the tracing, using that scanned map as a template for intricate tracing of different relief layers in Adobe Illustrator, relevant color selection, scanning and importing a photograph of a relevant scene, completing other design elements, producing a color print, and carrying out the necessary conversions for publishing on the web. Students used Adobe Illustrator 6.0 for map production and Photoshop 4.0 to prepare scanned images for importing into Adobe Illustrator and onto the web. Their web pages were created in Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0.

The following are the Spring, 1998 relief map projects:


Last Modified: April 28, 1998
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