Cartography & GIS TA

GEOG 3540/8545 Cartography & GIS TA

GEOG 3530 Cartography & GIS Lecture || GEOG 3540 Cartography & GIS Lab

My Cart & GIS Lecture page || My Cart & GIS Lab page

Student Pages

Hours

Monday: 12 PM - 2:15 PM in 296; Assisting Urban Geography from 4 PM - 5:30 PM in 296; 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM in 296
Tuesday: 12 PM - 5:15 PM in 292
Wednesday: 12 PM - 2:15 PM in 296; Assisting Urban Geography from 4 PM - 5:30 PM in 296; 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM in 296
Thursday: 12 PM - 5:15 PM in 292
Friday: No scheduled hours
*Will meet with students by appointment outside of scheduled hours

Not Available

Monday: 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Tuesday: 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Wednesday: 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Thursday: 5:30 PM - 8:50 PM

Contact Info

Email: mwoodrum@unomaha.edu
Phone: (402) 536-9716

Lab Page Template

Map Layout Checklist

Assignments (due on the following Tuesday)

Week	Assignment & Examples	Files	Examples	Videos & Readings
Illustrator
1	Graphical communication Graphicacy \|\| Balchin & Coleman		Hang gliding maps
1	Lines 1	Map	Example Choose a different state	Pen Tool \|\| Tracing \|\| Arrow \|\| Dashed lines \|\| Saving to PNG
2	Curved lines & Map Generalization	Maine	Curved lines Maine Tips	Pen Tool-1 \|\| Tracing-1 \|\| Arrow to Dashes \|\| Dashes \|\| Saving as PNG \|\| Bezier-1 \|\| Bezier-2 \|\| Pencil Tool-1 \| Pencil Tool-2
3	Shapes and Legend		Example	Shapes-1 \|\| Shapes-2 \|\| Shapes-3 \|\| Shapes-4 \|\| Shapes-5
4	Layers and Polygons	Map	Example-Map Example-States	Layers-1 \|\| Layers-2 \|\| Erase Tool \|\| Scissors \|\| Eraser/Scissor/Knife \|\| Live Trace-1 \|\| Live Trace-2
5	Choropleth Re-do	50 State Map	Example-1 \|\| Example 2
6	Alternative Map Designs			Re-do Choropleth Re-do with alternative, more attractive design.
7	Nebraska County Map			County Map Examples
QGIS
8	QGIS Choropleth Map			Making a Map \|\| QGIS Introduction \|\| Choro/Heat Maps \|\| Heat Maps \|\| ArcGIS & QGIS \|\| QGIS Books \|\| QGIS Workshop \|\| QGIS Download
9	QGIS Interpolation
10	Finding and Joining Data
	Evaluating posters in the hallway Tuesday, November 12
	Poster Proposal	A link on your webpage that outlines the topic of your poster and the maps you will include. Due: Thursday, November 14.
	Poster DUE	First draft: Tuesday, November 26; Final poster: Tuesday, December 10
	Thursday, December 12	Presentation of posters / 50-point final
ArcGIS
	US County ArcMap to Illustrator	Shapefile
	Interpolation & 2 map layout	US Business	Map-1 \|\| Map-2	Excel Frequency - shows you how to count the number of observations between a specified range
	Finding and Joining Data
	Bivariate mapping with ArcMap Creating a map that shows two variables using colors.
Previous labs and data files
	QGIS Circle Heat			Reading: Proportional Symbols
	How to subset a QGIS file For example, how to extract a single state from a file that contains all states.
	QGIS Three-D
	Data Classification			Excel Frequency - counting the number of observations between a specified range Explanation of methods
	Data Classification and Choropleth mapping
	Two Alaskas	Alaska	Two Alaska Maps	Clipping an image \| Masking \| Adobe Masking
Data
	ShapeFiles	US County.zip Douglas/Sarpy Census 2014 Douglas/Sarpy Election US County Business US Cartograms 2016 US Presidential Election by County Combined County Election Business ESRI Demographics Data Description \|\| Tapestry File Descriptions