Computer Cartography
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| show | Choropleth maps
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| Who developed most of the color schemes that we use? | show 🗑
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| show | Data you are mapping (qualitative or quantitative)
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| Why doesn't Brewer use saturation? | show 🗑
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| What is qualitative data? | show 🗑
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| show | Everything else
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| What schemes are used for qualitative data? | show 🗑
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| show | Sequential, Spectral, Diverging, two-variable balanced, three-variable balance
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| How are classes divided in the qualitative scheme? | show 🗑
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| How are classes divided in the binary scheme? | show 🗑
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| show | Lightness steps of neutral grays
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| How are classes divided in a sequential scheme with one hue? | show 🗑
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| How are classes divided in a sequential scheme with hue transition? | show 🗑
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| show | Lightness steps with hue steps that progress through all spectral hues
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| show | By hue and lightness steps
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| show | Large hue steps interfere with groupings above and below the midpoint of a diverging scheme
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| show | Lightness not sequential
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| What is the three things is the diverging scheme for? | show 🗑
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| show | Neutral in middle and increasingly darker at extremes
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| What does the legend for bivariate maps look like? | show 🗑
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| How many classes should two variable maps have? | show 🗑
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| Can GIS programs create bivariate maps? | show 🗑
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| show | Using Brewer's site
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| Describe a qualitative/binary scheme. | show 🗑
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| show | Different hues for the qualitative variable crossed with different values for the sequential variable.
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| show | Cross of values of two complementary hues with mixtures producing a neutral diagonal.
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| show | Transition between two hues with similar value throughout the scheme.
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| show | Mixtures of values of three hues.
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| Describe a diverging/binary scheme. | show 🗑
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| show | Two hues with values for the diverging variable crossed with greater value steps for the sequential variable
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| Describe a diverging/diverging scheme. | show 🗑
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| show | When you make the transition from a large scale to small scale map, the large scale map symbols need to be generalized
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| What should the first step of generalization always be? | show 🗑
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| Is there generalization software available? | show 🗑
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| Can everything be generalized? | show 🗑
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| What generalization procedure can be applied to objects that have an area and linear symbols? | show 🗑
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| What should you do if you have an area with two linear symbols that run parallel to each other? | show 🗑
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| If you have several linear features, and you have to displace one, which one should you displace first? | show 🗑
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| If you have three buildings, what should you do to generalize them? | show 🗑
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| Since you have less space at a smaller scale, what generalization feature must you perform to select the features that you will keep and others that you will remove? | show 🗑
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| show | Reclassification
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| Who came up with the principles of selection? | show 🗑
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| show | Point, area, and line symbols
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| Who were the first people to quantify selection features in an article? | show 🗑
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| What does the radical law describe? | show 🗑
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| show | The generalization of maps at the topographic scale.
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| show | nf = na square root of Ma / Mf
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| What does nf stand for? | show 🗑
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| What does na stand for? | show 🗑
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| What does ma stand for? | show 🗑
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| What does mf stand for? | show 🗑
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| Will the result of the radical formula be smaller or larger than the source map? | show 🗑
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| show | 14
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| What aspect of generalization does the radical formulas provide information about? | show 🗑
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| How can the simplest form of the radical law be modified for different kinds of map symbols? | show 🗑
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| show | By adding Cb, which is the constant of symbolic exaggeration
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| show | By counting objects at many scales
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