2023/2024

The course is 56 hours long (7 CFU) and iams to introduce students at the basis of cartography, especially at the usage of geographic information systems. During the course, history of cartography, traditional definitions and concepts of cartography will be provided (types of maps, scale, projection systems, etc.) as well as issues about digital cartography (rasters, vectors). Base knowledge of querying territorial information systems will be given, in order to edit a personal SIT. At the end of the course, the student has to be familiar with the main softwares of digital cartography, web GIS, and Web Map Service systems.

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A.CATIZZONE, Fondamenti di cartografia, Gangemi, Roma, 2007
A. FAVRETTO, Strumenti per l'analisi geografica GIS e Telerilevamento, Bologna, Pàtron
MIGLIACCIO F., CARRION D. Sistemi informativi territoriali. UTET, 2016
M. DONATTINI, Dal Nuovo Mondo all'America. Scoperte geografiche e colonialismo (secoli XV-XVI), Roma, Carocci, 2004

• HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY
o The philosophy of maps
o The first representations of space
o The world of Sumeri, Assyrians and Babylonians
o The world according to ancient Greeks
o The pragmatism of Roman culture
o Tolomeo and his geography
o The Medieval symbology
o Flat vs Spherical Earth
o The cartography from Medieval to Reinaissance
o Mercator and the Dutch School
o The longitudinal question
o The new planispheres
o Cassini, the 18th century and the "Carte de la France"
o The military topography maps
o History of Urban and Rural Cadastres
o The scientific cartography after the 1750
o Alternative cartogeaphic projections
o Speculations about cartographic stereotypes

• IGM, CTR
o Cartography at 100.000 and its subdivisions
o The Technical Regional Map 1:10.000

• Territorial Informative Systems (TIS)
o Introduction and basic definitions
o What is a TIS
o What is a map
o The Earth shape: sphere, ellipsoid, geoid
o Coordinate system:Latitude, Longitude and Cartesian system
o Reference systems: global, local and geographical projections
o Scales
o Types of maps
o Digital representations: vectors and rasters
o Geographis Information Systems (GIS) and Territorial Informative Systems (TIS)
o TIS applications
o Introduction to GIS apps: functions and potentialities
o GIS components
o Introduction to online visualization softwares
o Web Map Services (WMS)
o Google Earth: basic and advanced functions

• QGIS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
o Introduction
o The environment: desktop and main functions
o The useful plug-ins
o Intriduction to vectors and rasters models
o Editing
o Attribute tables: management and editing
o Production of tematic maps

Slides and research materials supplied by the teacher (uploaded on Moodle)

The exam will be on site at Rieti

The exam is split in two parts: a QGIS project to make in the informatic lab, and an oral part in the classroom

    Federico Vessella