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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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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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Automatic publication of data and metadata for map and catalogue systems from raster sources in PostgreSQL
Hettler, Jakub ; Brůha, Lukáš (advisor) ; Grill, Stanislav (referee)
Automatic publication of data and metadata for map and catalogue systems from raster sources in PostgreSQL Abstract The main goal of the presented work is the design and implementation of the application for the automatic publication of the raster data and metadata from the PostgreSQL database to the map and catalog services. The application should exclusively utilize the open source software and technologies. The fundamental component of the developed application is the PostgreSQL database with the PostGIS and PostGIS raster extensions. The presented work evaluates the possibilities of the raster storage from different points of view -e.g. the suitability for the further data processing or the publication of the raster data. The most suitable structure for raster storage is then proposed with respect to analytical and publication usage of the stored data. The possibilities of the open source software for the solution and implementation of the presented problem are then inspected. The GeoNetwork and GeoServer are utilized as a metadata and map server solution. The results of the deployment of these technologies is then evaluated for the real world data and compared with other available related solutions. Keywords: PostGIS, PostGIS raster, GeoServer, GeoNetwork opensource, metadata, web map services, OGC,...
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Web map services using geographical data
Královec, Ota ; Alexa, Štěpán (advisor) ; Daněk, Lukáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis introduces geographic information systems, geographic data and shows professional applications of them in real world. Further it focuses on standardization of web geospatial services primarily WMS and WFS. In the practical part thesis describes usage of geographic information systems in two different companies and introduces potential improvements using WMS or WFS. For that purpose, the practical part uses two case studies.
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Web map services using geographical data
Endršt, Jiří ; Alexa, Štěpán (advisor) ; Daněk, Lukáš (referee)
This bachelor thesis introduces geographic information systems, explains the use of them in real world applications and shows specific cases, where such systems are used in. This thesis also aims to explain specific web map services, namely WMS and WFS. These two services are also used in the practical part of the thesis. The goal of the practical part is to create functional prototype of web application using map services. The purpose of this application is to support sportsmen in finding new sport paths on an interactive map.
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The Historical maps available on the internet
SCHMIED, Lukáš
With coming of digital technologies, cartography has changed a lot. Today?s cartographic products are usually created in the digital form, as vector drawings. These data are able to be published either in desktop applications or in the Internet.The data can be not only displayed, but they can be published by the Web Map Services technology. The data can be in an easy way joined to any GIS application keeping appropriate standards.
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