Programme

The course will illustrate the content of cartography as a document and testimony of different ages, cultures, people and technologies, with particular attention to territorial and environmental applications. Practical exercises, short theses, field lessons and educational excursions are planned.
Lessons topics: general mapping elements; spatial and non-spatial representations: charts and diagrams; the map: subject, object and instrument; organization and content of national cartography; thematic cartography; presentation of GIS or SIT.

Core Documentation

Attending students:
- slides, ppt, lesson notes and supplementary learning material that will be provided during the course.
Non-Attending Students:
-E. LAVAGNA e G. LOCARNO, Geocartografia. Guida alla lettura delle carte geotopografiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2007
- five examples of choice from:U. SAURO - M. MENEGHEL e ALTRI, Dalla carta topografica al paesaggio. Atlante ragionato, Vicenza, ZetaBeta, 2005.

Type of evaluation

Attending students: report in reading a topographic map (chosen by the student and to be delivered a week before the exam); written test with open answer questions and oral presentation of the contents of the report no-Attending students: Written test, with open answer questions; written description on one of the 5 selected maps