Cartography and Visualization

Question 1

What elements go on a map?

Answer 1

-Title
-Legend
-Scale
-Coordinate system information
-Author’s name/organization, logo, print date
-Graticule (lat/long) and/or Grid (X, Y)
-North arrow

Question 1

What is Typography?

Answer 1

The process of putting text on a map like labels, annotations, etc.

Question 2

What are ways to specify color?

Answer 2

-RGB (red, green, and blue mix)
-CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black mix)
-HSV (Hue, Saturation and Value)

Question 3

How is RGB (red, green, and blue mix) specified?

Answer 3

Each color has a value from 0 to 255

Question 4

How is CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black mix) specified?

Answer 4

All four colors are specified as a percentage (0%-100%)

Question 5

How is HSV (Hue, Saturation and Value) specified?

Answer 5

-Hue defines the base color, ranges from 0 to 360
-Saturation (lightness or darkness) is a percentage (0%-100%)
-Value (intensity of the color) is a percentage (0%-100%)

Question 6

What are HEX Codes?

Answer 6

Can be used on all 3 color models. Used to find an exact color.

Question 7

What is a Thematic Map?

Answer 7

A map that is symbolized by a particular theme (i.e., a map that has been symbolized based on attributes)

Question 8

What are Bivariate Colors?

Answer 8

-Describes data by looking at more than one value at a time to determine correlations and anomalies.
-Has 4x4 square in contents symbology

Question 9

What is a Divergent Color Ramp?

Answer 9

all the emphasis of quantitative data display to be progressions outward from a critical midpoint of the data range.

Question 10

What is Field Normalization?

Answer 10

Divide one column value by another column value. Often used with Census Data.

Question 11

What is Natural Breaks (Jenks)?

Answer 11

Data is clustered naturally into classes

Question 12

What is Quantile?

Answer 12

Equal number of features per class

Question 13

What is Equal Interval?

Answer 13

Equal range of values in each class

Question 14

What is Defined Interval?

Answer 14

Fixed interval

Question 15

What is Standard Deviations?

Answer 15

Classes defined by how far above/below the mean the values are

Question 16

What is a Geometric Interval?

Answer 16

Classes are defined by geometric series (2, 4, 8, 16, etc.)

Question 17

What is a Contour Line?

Answer 17

Elevation or depth

Question 18

What is a Isoline?

Answer 18

Measures of air pollution, rainfall, noise, etc.

Question 19

What is an Isopach?

Answer 19

A line that connects points of equal true thickness

Question 20

What are Index Contour Lines?

Answer 20

Lines drawn darker (thicker) at specific interval to help in reading the contour lines.

Question 21

What are Intermediate Contour Lines?

Answer 21

Regular, thinner contour lines

Question 22

What are Supplemental Contour Lines?

Answer 22

Dashed lines that are placed between regular contour lines to visualize small but important forms that regular contour lines are unable to show.

Question 23

What does it mean when contours have a “V” shape?

Answer 23

Indicates a valley (often a stream or river). The “V” points upstream, or towards the higher end of the valley.