Syllabus, pdf format, Fall 2008.

Special Event:  Tour of the 3D Lab, Wednesday, October 1, 1p.m.  Meet outside the 3D Lab in the Central Collaboration Area on the first floor of the Duderstadt Center.  See map below for floorplan.

Office Hours:

• Wednesday, Duderstadt Center, before class (or in the Map Library when class meets in the Map Library), 10a.m. to 12:30p.m.
  
• Fridays, 10a.m. to 2p.m., Map Library
  
• Available on e-mail.
• I will be out of town at a conference from Nov. 14 to December 1.
  

Locations (beyond the usual meeting place on the third floor of the Duderstadt Center--Windows I Training Room):

For the full power of a GEOMAT case study to be realized, two sets of intersecting components need to be included.  First is a set of broad categories of substantive data that form an ecological whole:

These eight systems interact simulatneously at any place on the earth's surface.  Human individuals and groups are embedded in these systems and act through them.  Analyzing how these systems interact to produce a particular event enables us to identify the essential actors, human or otherwise, which have produced the event.

Second is a set of format categories:

1. Maps which show the features of the areas where significant events took place.
2. Calendrical timelines showing the sequence of different kinds of events at appropriate scales.
3. Identification of specific events, especially landmark events which irrevocably changed the situation being chronicled by the case study.
4. Biographies, accounts, and images of human actors--corporate group agents contributing to the sequence of events.
5. Reports about and images of other actors such as plants, animals, landscape features, terrain, mineral deposits, productive land use, weather and climate.
6. Arrays of archival documents, records of messages exchanged, oral history accounts and contemporary images.
7. Accounts of, documents and images from contemporary settlements such as cities, towns, villages, resorts.
8. Documents and images from archeological sites and records of past settlements.
   

Links to some related materials:

• Latitude and Longitude:  general structure
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• Scale:  A Fundamental Geographical Problem
• Maps.
• Perry-Castaneda Library
  
• Digital Chart of the World--selections
  
• Animated maps:  integrating space and time. 
• Four-color example
• Syrian example
• CSF link
• IMaGe link--numerous published animated maps
• Five Themes of Geography:  Location, Place, Human/Environment Interaction, Movement, Regions  (as characterized in 1984 by the Joint Committee on Geographic Education of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) and the Association of American Geographers (AAG). They are outlined in greater detail in the NCGE/AAG publication Guidelines for Geographic Education, Elementary and Secondary Schools.)

Software:
Adobe PhotoShop--use for making animated maps, as well.
[Adobe ImageReady]--no longer supported, but you may have it.
ESRI GIS
Dreamweaver:  to insert a picture on your webpage, go to Insert|Image; to insert a link, type in the full url in the link box after highlighting text.
Download a free editor to create your own webpage and to create Java Applets:  SeaMonkey Composer.
http://earth.google.com/outreach/tutorial_youtube.html -- interesting possibilities...

Exercises:

Create an animated map: open a layered psd file in Photoshop CS3 Extended; go to Window|Animation--then add  new frames and click layers off and on as desired; set timing between successive frames.  File|Save for Web and Devices, choose .gif.

• Use placemarks
• Overlay a map
  

Samples:
Wars of the Roses
Suleyman:  Military Campaigns
Link to general shell containing the above.

Material from 3 co-authors:
Association of American Geographers Presentation
Lewis and Clark:  The Gates of the Rocky Mountains.
Published in Solstice

Technical Material:
Mounting afs Drive (H:)
Location of DreamWeaver in the Duderstadt Center Classroom:  Start | Multimedia Applications | Adobe Web Standard CS3 | Adobe DreamWeaver CS3

Links from Longstreth: 
from Director of the Map Library, Karl Lonstreth
Selective Bibliography on Maps and Visual Representations.

• Carlucci, April and Peter Barber.  Lie of the Land:  the secret life of maps.  London:  British Library, 2001. Hatcher Graduate, Map Library Book Shelves, Sahpiro Undergraduate.  GA 195.L66 L54 2001
• Kaiser, Ward L. and Denis Wood.  Seeing through maps:  the power of images to shape our world views.  Amherst, MA:  ODT Inc., 2001.  Hatcher Graduate, Map Library Book Shelves, GA 105.3.K34 2001
• Krygier, John and Denis Wood.  Making maps:  A visual guide to map design for GIS.  New York:  Guilford Press, 2005.  Map Library Book Shelves, Shapiro Undergraduate.  GA 105.3.K791 2005
• Monmonmier, Mark S.  Mapping it out:  Expository cartography for the humanities and social sciences.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1993.  AAEL, Hatcher Graduate, Map Library Book Shelves GA 108.7.M663 1993
• Tufte, Edward R.  Envisioning information.  Cheshire, Conn.:  Graphics Press, 2003.  Map Library copy on reserve in AAEL P93.T841 2003
• Tufte, Edward R.  Visual explanations:  Images and quantities, evidence and narrative.  Cheshire, Conn.:  Graphics Press, 2003.  Map Library Book Shelves, P93.5.T83 2003
• Wood, Denis and John Fels.  The power of maps.  New York:  Guildord Press, 1992.  Map Library Book Shelves, Hatcher Graduate:  GA 105.3.W661 1992.
• Abu-Sirra, Salman H.   Atlas of Population, 1948.  London:  Palestine Land Society, 2004.  Map Library Atlas Shelves:  Rm. 825 S. G 2235.A28 2004
• Blake, Gerald Henry, John C. Dewdney, and Jonathan Mitchell.  The Cambridge atals of the Middle East & North Africa.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1987.  Map Library Atlas Shelves--Rm. 825 S. G 1780.C361 1987
• Freeman-Greenville, G. & P. and Lorraine Dessel.  Historical atlas of the Middle East.  new York:  Simon & Schuster, 1993.  Map Library Book Shelves G 2206.81 F71 1993
• Gilbert, Martin.  The Routledge atlas of Jewish history.  London:  New york:  Routledge, 2006.  Shapiro Undergraduate, G 1030 G31 2006
• Gilbert, Martin.  Atlas of the Arab Israeli Conflict.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1993.  Hatcher Graduate, Map Library Book Shelves, Shapiro Undergraduate Reference Shelves.  G 2236.81 G521 1993
• Gilbert, Martin.  The Arab Israeli conflict:  Its history in maps.  London:  Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.  Hatcher Graduate Map Library Book Shelves, GA 1081.G47 1984.
• Karta (Firm), and Moshe Brawer.  Atlas of the Middle East.  New York:  London:  Macmillan Publishing Co., 1988.  Map Library Book Shelves G2205.K331 1988
• Tubinger atlas des vorderen orients.  Wiesbaden Reschert, 1977.  Hatcher Graduate Map Library Atlas Shelves, Fine Arts Flat Folio Collection.  G2205.T81
• United States, Atlas of the Middle East.  [Washington DE:  Central INtelligence Agency], 1993, Map Library Atlas Shelves G 2205.M5311 1993
• United States, Israel and Neighboring States. {Washington, D. C.:  Central Intelligence Agency], 1990.  Map Library, G 7420 1990.U5

The Map Library is located on the eighth floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library.  Hours are 10-5 Monday-Friday and 1-4 Sunday.

Contributed links:  From Andrew Turner, student Fall 2007.

Here are some additional links you may find useful:

MetaCarta Labs Online Map Rectifier:  http://labs.metacarta.com/rectifier/rectify/313

Simile: http://simile.mit.edu/
 Especially Exhibit: http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/

Interesting use of time history:http://hindsight.trulia.com/
Particularly the outflux of residents from Detroit:
http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/#lat=42.381&lon=-83.094&zoom=15&metric=built&mix=0.500

Darfur Layers in GoogleEarth - part of the BrightEarth Project:
  http://www.ogleearth.com/2007/04/google_turns_on.html