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    Slide 1:WELCOME!

    CENTER FOR GIS & REMOTE SENSING

    Slide 2:Workshop Schedule July 25-29, 2005

    Today: Introduction to GIS and data gathering Catered Lunch at Woodson Room Tuesday (6/26): A variety of GIS software Wednesday (6/27): ArcGIS I: Geodatabases Thursday (6/28): ArcGIS II: Nuts & Bolts Friday (6/29): ArcGIS III: Extensions Box Lunches at Tucker Building

    Slide 3:Treasure Hunting

    What is a map ? A representation of our world on plane

    Slide 4:How was mapping done before GIS ?

    A Time Line 10,000 BC: River map from Mezhirich, Ukraine

    Slide 5:6200 B.C. Catal Huyuk, near Konya, Central Turkey

    Slide 6:Greek Maps. Anaximander, 610-546 BC

    Michael Lahanas Webste Dikaiarch of Messina Invents Lat/Long in 350-290 BC

    Slide 7:Klaudios Ptolemaios (Ptolemy), 87-170 A.D., Alexandria, Egypt

    Re-produced from his Text “Geographia” Ca, 140A.D. after Discovery by a Byzantine monk Named Maximos Planudes (1260-1310) 64 Local maps, 26 Regional maps, 4 World maps Distances based on earlier Greek astronomers such Eratosthenes

    Slide 8:Ptolemy’s Map Inspired Christopher Columbus to Seek the Large Asian Landmass! N.B.: Ptolemy’s map was well known to be based on the earth as a sphere

    Slide 9:America…

    188 x 344 mm WalseeMuller & Ringmann, 1507 Map: 1st printed globe, first “accurate and complete” Map in 360 deg, 1st map with name “America”, 1st to show pacific Ocean, 1st to show cape horn “Now, these parts of the earth have been more extensively explored and a fourth part has been discovered by Amerigo Vespucci. Inasmuch as both Europe and Asia received their names from Women, I see no reason why anyone should justly object to calling This part Amerige I.e., the land of Amerigo, or America, after Amerigo, its discoverer, a man of great ability.”

    1798

    Slide 11:Major Developments that lead to modern mapping

    1). Scientific revolution started by Galileo 2). Newton (1642-1727) formulates his laws of mechanics, predicts that the earth is a spheroid. Invention of the meter (1/10,000,000) of the distance between the pole and the equator (year: 1793) 3). Key to mapping is determining the longitude of position. John Harrison (1693-1776) modifies clocks to be ship worthy. New surveys were done showing eg., that the land area of France was significantly less what it was earlier! 4). Einstein’s 1905 papers, and General Relativity in 1915 leads the way to GPS

    Slide 12:Closer to Home

    J.De Cardova 1856

    Slide 13:Even Closer…

    1:250,000, 1894 1920 Perry-Castaneda Map library, UT, Austin

    Slide 14:Closer to TCU, 1925

    Slide 15:How are maps used ?

    Slide 16:Maps That Advertise

    But doesn’t show the stopovers Iowa City as exciting as San Fran and London Mark Monmonier, 1991

    Slide 17:Maps That Advertise

    Mark Monmonier, 1991

    Slide 18:Maps That Convince

    Mark Monmonier, 1991

    Slide 19:Maps That Persuade

    Mark Monmonier, 1991 Facts in Review, 5 February, 1940

    Slide 20:Maps That Persuade

    Mark Monmonier, 1991

    Slide 21:Maps That Misinform

    Mark Monmonier, 1991

    Joseph Charles Minard’s map of Napoleon’s defeat, 1812

    Slide 22:Maps That Inform

    Slide 23:Maps That Analyze Events

    Battle between Magnus Pompey and Julius Caesar at Pharsalus, Greece

    Slide 24:Maps That Analyze Events

    Slide 25:So, what is a Geographic Information System ?

    The precise arrangement of spatial objects using a computer to inform, advertise, persuade, and analyze events on a map

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