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Cartographical works for pre-school children
Mainclová, Jana ; Hamalová, Marie (referee) ; Plánka, Ladislav (advisor)
The principal aim of this master´s thesis has been to analyze the available Czech and foreign cartographic works that may be used wholly or partly for preschool children. A design and a model of an orientation map of a village for educational needs in nursery schools and the first stage of primary schools are part of the work. A basic map of the village of Boretice (a disctrict of Breclav) has been used as a basis for creation of my own design of a map. The usability of the newly designed map has been tested in the local nursery school.
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Map Creation Application from OpenStreetMap Project Data
Latta, Martin ; Rozman, Jaroslav (referee) ; Novotný, Tomáš (advisor)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the development of application that allows you to create maps from OpenStreetMap project data and change their appearance. The work contains an introduction to cartography, information about OpenStreeMap project and rendering library Mapnik. The main focus of the text is a description of the design and implementation of the application itself, including the final testing and evaluation.
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Map Creation Environment using OpenStreetMap Project Data
Opletal, Petr ; Rozman, Jaroslav (referee) ; Novotný, Tomáš (advisor)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the development of environment for creating maps using OpenStreetMap vector data. The final application allows to change appearance of maps and to import data from external sources (e.g. own tracks). The text contains a theoretical introduction, the information about the OpenStreetMap project and the information about the Google My Tracks application. Further, this text deals with the application design, implementation and testing. The conclusion summarizes achieved results and suggests some proposals how to extend the application.
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Monumental places of the Moravien geodesy and cartography
Kovářová, Anna ; Dermeková, Stanislava (referee) ; Plánka, Ladislav (advisor)
The thesis deals with description of location related to the personalities that were important for geodesy and cartography and worked in Moravia or Silesia. Apart from personalities, it also pursues with important trigonometric and leveling points, archives and towns with other interesting movable and immovable monuments related to geodesy and cartography. There are also schools where people can study geodesy and cartography now. One chapter is devoted to the Moravian cartographic center in Velké Opatovice.
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Web pages of cartographic and geodetic departments on universities
Darmopilová, Jana ; Tomáš, Volařík (referee) ; Plánka, Ladislav (advisor)
Objective of this thesis is to create a simple and efficient structural guidepost of important cartographic and geodetic departments at universities in the Czech Republic and in the European Union. The work also deals with the evaluation of graphics, content and technical quality of presentation of departments in the Czech and Slovak republic on the Internet and a brief summary of the history and future of the Internet and the WWW in the world as well. At the end, there is a suggest of solution to implementation guidepost to the website of the Institute of Geodesy Faculty of Civil Engineering BRNO University of Technology.
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paper.dropbox.com/doc/Rethinking-Rethinking-Maps--BAOXySgVBU~pOeli7wIUnCo~Ag-X3LtGE1DXor1EjqbYNsvj
Škobrtal, Petr ; Leitgeb, Šimon (referee) ; Kubíková, Zuzana (advisor)
The book Rethinking Maps summarizes the findings of researchers, according to which the map — its structure and formal appearance is full of symbols, categories and explanations based on the field of cartography — is an artificially created social construct. The way we browse maps is crucial to our perception of the space that surrounds us. If we want to be geographically related to a certain place, we convert its location and the route that needs to be taken to the destination in a certain scale. When we say that "something is there," we describe a space, which identity is defined only by a carefully structured graphic symbols in a precisely specified grid and scale. In this context, Denis Wood (The Power of Maps) notes that maps do not only function as a reflection of neutral reality. The world is recorded on them from a certain point of view, and apart from being tools of communication, they can also serve as a tools of power. In today's context, that means, for example, that most local services are defined by the interests of their authors, the paid advertising of the companies or the interests of the corporations to which the application belongs. Bachelor thesis Rethinking Rethinking Maps tries to develop an approach that could partially redefine these principles. Formal representation is not fundamentally different from similar applications offered by internet map services, but works differently in user access and attempts to modify the navigation service so that in the final state, the content of the map is formed by the users themselves. The user experience does not end with a straight highlighted trajectory, the path is not determined by the easiest and fastest way to overcome the route from start to finish. Validation of given locations is generated on the basis of user knowledge and the application connects routes into circuits through which the places can be related in their common geographical, historical or social context forming the identity of individual localities — places are not defined by a red highlighted route, but by various forms of content that is generated by the users themselves. The goal is to create a tool that would ideally help shape a community that not only consumes the world, but also experiences it and tries to enroll it differently than by the number of stars or the ratio of coffee acidity.
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The usability of the educational game for the cartography education in lower-secondary schools
Zýma, Marek ; Krajňáková, Lenka (advisor) ; Matějček, Tomáš (referee)
The presented thesis focuses on the usability testing of the educational game Map of an imaginary island for teaching cartography, which was created by the same author in 2020. The work also briefly introduces the game concept, including a description of its individual components and their functions. To improve clarity, the thesis firstly reviews the literature related to educational methods, particularly didactic games, then the issue of usability, its significance, and application in product testing is presented. The research section of the thesis aims to subject the educational game to usability testing, examining the perspectives of both pupils and teachers on its use and identifying the most significant shortcomings, which are then addressed in a separate chapter. The research was conducted using the two most common methods used in general product testing, i.e., questionnaire surveys and interviews with users. The research results showed that the game is a welcome addition to teaching, with rules that are understandable for both pupils and teachers, evoking a pleasant feeling in them, and despite its gaming nature, maintaining a clear didactic purpose. However, in some cases, there were problems with correct solving of various tasks, mainly due to pupils' age. As mentioned earlier, the thesis...
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SocialMaps Manifesto
Škobrtal, Petr ; Leitgeb, Šimon (referee) ; Kubíková, Zuzana (advisor)
In the past two decades, a digital copy of the world has been created with perfect precision. It is an unprecedented achievement of the third modernity, and the speed of its creation is fascinating. We walk through it daily and are a part of it without reflecting on its existence, its nature and its unclear transactional relationship. We have come to see the various mapping services and applications as obvious innovations. A simple fragment of the quantum of functionalities of our devices. Calculator, clock, email, maps. But a digital copy of the world was not easy to build. And it was certainly expensive. Yet it is offered to us for our use without any restraints. The central motivation of the companies that have created this virtual space — in which the dramas of humanity are notionally played out — is to monitor it continuously and carefully. Our behaviour, activities and interactions are the desired compensation. They are constantly analysed and interpreted into data that can be traded. The loss of privacy is a tax we pay. An unspoken transactional relationship has been sealed without our knowing its exact terms and consequences; and the corporations that formulate them are rapaciously avoiding legislative-legal framework. Map applications, which are today the most important product of cartography, are the sneaking hegemony that reduces the world to a few categories whose primary imperative is profit. Many of them use the map as a platform in which places are inserted to represent a simple reflection of the capitalist perception of the world. Shops, hotels, bars, restaurants, businesses. Such maps manipulate our view of the world by how they portray it and what they present to us in a bounded way. And by our conformity, we unwittingly accede to these practices and help to preserve their status quo. We can easily decide not to use the digital map services and applications in place, but they are only the symbolic tip of an ambitious project of monitoring our privacy. Maps are hopelessly caught up in a tangled web of Big Tech, software and the Internet of Things. They are drained of their influence and limitless potential to serve a single purpose. It is therefore necessary to seek a ways forward for a paradigm shift affecting the form, nature and function of digital web maps. This manifesto offers some of them.
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Identity and Displacement in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction
Olehlová, Markéta ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Franková, Milada (referee) ; Kolinská, Klára (referee)
English summary The main objective of this thesis is to present some key issues relevant for postcolonial field of study with respect to two basic areas of interest: concepts of identity and place, respectively displacement in contemporary postcolonial discourse and their reflection in fiction, too. The thesis should provide the potential reader with basic theoretical background based on the most fundamental sources and by means of selected literary works it should support (or disclaim, if necessary) conclusions reached by the most notable theories. This dissertation work consists of three major parts. In the introduction, apart from providing the motivational, theoretical and literary objectives of the thesis, I cover some basic difficulties that may occur when dealing with the postcolonial field of study. The central part of the thesis can be divided into two parts, each of them consisting of two further sections. The first one, "Identity in Postcolonial Discourse", is focused on one of the key terms in all of postcolonial theory: identity and other concepts related with it. I cover the basic development of theoretical reflection concerning this concept, drawing primarily from secondary sources dealing with it. The theoretical part on identity is succeeded by a chapter "Reflections of Identity in the...
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