Graphic Communication
15 reasons why you need to learn how to convey information through graphics.
Because you probably never have had a course about graphics.
Because our educational system doesn't emphasize graphic communication.
3-Rs don't include graphics
You know how to use MS Word better than Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.
Most of your PowerPoint presentations consist of text.
You can't figure out why PowerPoint graphics don't print well.
You know that graphics are an effective form of communication but you don't think you have a graphic sense to design them.
You think you don't have time to learn those graphic programs.
You think that somebody else can add the graphics later.
But you know that you can't convey to another person in words what you want to express in a graphic.
You don't want to be dependent on others for graphics.
You have to make data understandable,
and, you have a lot of data.
You know that representing data graphically can be very meaningful.
But you don't know how to make meaningful graphics.
You know that you can't get by with reports that consist only of text
Graphic Editing with Illustration Software
Illustrator Links Page
Lines
Curves
Advanced Curves and Circles
Line Tracing a raster graphic
Color
Tracing an image
Text in a box
Text along a curved line
Double line
Extracting outline map of a state
Importing ESRI ArcView Map
AutoCad to Illustrator
Pie graphs with Illustrator
Line graph with Illustrator
Qualitative Choropleth Map Examples
Making a qualitative choropleth map
Photoshop
PowerPoint
Geography Standard 1: Maps
Definition
Purpose
Types
Map Projections
Map Scale
Cartographic Abstraction
Geography Standard 2: Mental Maps
Acquisition
Importance
Cognitive Aspects
Methods of Forming Mental Maps
Conclusion
Online Method to World Regional Geography
Introduction
Making a Webpage
The Standard Template File
Writing and Formatting Text Pages
Notes Page
Sidebar Page
Searching the Web
Links Page
Picture Page
Webcam Page
Maps Page
Panorama Picture Page
Music Page
Movie Page
Interactive Quiz Page
Map Quiz Page
Internet Map Resources for Education
How to find maps
How to evaluate map quality
Mapping location
Mapping where you live
Finding your latitude / latitude
Maps of the Physical Earth
Map of Current Sunshine
Map of Current Temperature
Current Precipitation
Maps of the Human Earth
World Population Density
US Population Density
Interactive and Animated Maps for the Web
Setting Up the Work Environment
Tour of Maps on the Web
Introduction to HTML
Making a Clickable Map
Mouseover Mapping
JavaScript
Layers and JavaScript
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
Conclusion
Multimedia, GIS & the Web
Introduction and Set-up
Multimedia, Maps on the Web, and HTML Authoring
Map Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Clickable Images
Animation on the Web
Open Source Tools for Online Mapping
Installing Apache
Windows and Linux server software
Making the "index.html" file
Working with OpenOffice tools
Using Java applets for mapping
Integrating Flash with ArcView and ArcGIS
Using MapServer
Integrating data from ArcView and ArcGIS
