• 1. Design for Screen Maps
  • 1.1. General Rules
  • 1.2. Interactive Web Maps
  • 1.3. Rules for Topographic Maps
  • 1.4. Rules for Thematic Maps
  • 1.5. Summary
  • 1.6. Glossary
  • 1.7. Bibliography
  • 1.8. Metadata

1.8. Metadata "Cartographic Design for Screen Maps"

Please note that the Metadata-chapter is only available in English!

Organisation

Level	CartouCHe
Module:	MMK
Lesson:	This is Lesson: No. 6 (cartdesign)

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this lesson.

Keywords: Adaptive Zooming, Cartographic Representation Rules, Colour, Data Classification, Diagram, Generalisation of Thematic Data, Graphical Improvements, Interactivity, Label Placement, Map Size, Navigation, Qualitative Map, Quantitative Map, Scale, Screen Map, Simplification, Symbolization, Thematic Map, Topographic Map, Web Map Font.

Technical requirements

The following Multimedia-types are used in this lesson. Please check that your browser supports them all:

• Text
• Picture (GIF)
• Picture (JPEG)
• Picture (PNG)
• Flash
• Quicktime Video
• SVG

Please check that your computer meets the following technical requirements:

Type	Name	min. Ver.	Installation remarks
PlugIn	Adobe SVG Viewer	3.0	only necessary in combination with some old browsers (e.g. IE6 or 7). New browsers usually have native SVG support and you don't need this plugin. If you need it, please follow the installation instructions of the installing wizard
PlugIn	Adobe Acrobat Reader (for PDF files)	9	installs a stand-alone player as well as a plugin; Follow the download instructions of the webpage and the installation instructions of the installing wizard
PlugIn	Adobe Flash Player	9.0	Follow the download instructions of the webpage and the installation instructions of the installing wizard
PlugIn	Quicktime Player (for all types of video and music files)	7	installs a stand-alone player as well as a plugin; Follow the download instructions of the webpage and the installation instructions of the installing wizard

Lesson Information

Language:	English (EN) German (DE) French (FR) Italian (IT) This is the original language of this lesson.
Lifecycle:	Version 3 (Created: 2006-03-30; last modified: 2012-01-26).
Authors:	Regula Stopper (Overall, IKA@ETHZ, stopper@karto.baug.ethz.ch) Samuel Wiesmann (Revision, IKA@ETHZ, wiesmann@karto.baug.ethz.ch) Olaf Schnabel (Revision, IKA@ETHZ, schnabel@karto.baug.ethz.ch): Olaf Schnabel revised the text, wrote some parts of it new and made all interactive examples compatible for all browsers.
Difficulty Level:	Low Medium High
Typical Learning Time:	2.5h (This lesson should take about 2.5 hours.)

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