GEOG 255 — PRINCIPLES OF CARTOGRAPHY
BA BA Geography and Rural Development · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
The course aims at equipping students with the basic principles and techniques of map-making, and also to help them apply such principles in analysis of spatial data. It is to train students to acquire the skill to plan the representation of spatial phenomena on a map. Topics to be treated include concept and scope of cartography, historical development of cartography, concept of map, basic properties of a map: (the scale, distance, direction, location and the coordinate systems, measurement (enlargement and reduction of scale), the map as a communication system, map projections and the techniques of mapping linear, area, and volumetric data.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
Other courses on this programme
- ENGL 263 — Literature in English I (Poetry & Drama)
- ENGL 264 — LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
- GEOG 251 — INTRODUCTION TO GEOMORPHOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY
- GEOG 252 — INTRODUCTION TO CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
- GEOG 253 — THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GEOGRAPHY I
- GEOG 254 — THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GEOGRAPHY II
- GEOG 256 — MAP INTERPRETATION AND FUNDAMENTALS OF SURVEYING
- CS 451 — INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION OF SOIL SCIENCE
- CSM 183 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS I (122)
- CSM 184 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS II
- ENGL 157 — Communication Skills I
- ENGL 158 — Communication Skills II
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