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| understanding of the spatial perspective of the physical environment; skills to abstract and symbolize this environment. |
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| making maps for commercial purposes. |
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| representation of the earth's surface |
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| map displayed on a computer |
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| map used just for locational purposes, i.e. a road map |
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| map designed to demonstrate a particular features or conepts. |
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| show the spatial distribution or locatino of single theme of nominal data. |
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| display the spatial aspects of numericl data |
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| common map type for mapping data collected in enumeration units. Each unit is shaded according to a variable or attribute. |
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| administrative areas to which attribute data is associated; i.e countries, states, counties, and townships. |
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| map in which dots represent the distributino of phenomena |
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| point data are represented by a symbol whose size varies with the data values |
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| a planimetric graphic representatino of three dimensional volume |
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| name aplied to the form of map in which the areas of the internal enumeration units are scaled to the data they represent |
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| map on which the amount of movement along a linear path is stressed, usually by lines of varying hiknesses and/or color. |
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| Components of a thematic map |
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| base map, a thematic overlay, and a set of ancillary map elemnts |
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| the transformation of unmapped data into map form involving symbolization and the map-reading activities whereby map users gain information. |
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| comprises map reading, map analysis, and map interpretation. |
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| private realm, visualization of data looking for patterns and relationships and using unencumbered and unstructured symbolization. |
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| cartographic communication |
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| public realm, making of a final or optimal map or maps with structured symbolization. |
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