Eisagōgī stī chartografía

Course Information
TitleΕισαγωγή στη χαρτογραφία / Eisagōgī stī chartografía
Code03YB015
FacultyEngineering
SchoolRural and Surveying Engineering
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CoordinatorAlexandra Koussoulakou
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600025727

Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos Agronómōn kai Topográfōn Mīchanikṓn (2025-sīmera)

Registered students: 60
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
Core CoursesCore Courses325
Class Information
Academic Year2025 – 2026
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours6
Class ID
600267783
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Background
Course Type 2011-2015
General Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
Required Courses
  • 01YG002 Technical Drawing and Computer Aided Design
  • 01YG004 Grammikī Álgevra kai Pínakes
  • 01YG005 Mathematics (Differential and Integral Calculus)
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to: 1. Understand the basic concepts and methods of the science of Cartography, so that they can make use of it in the more advanced courses of the following semesters 2. Study more specific topics of mathematical Cartography (map projections) 3. Use digital tools and programming languages for the construction of map projections and the study of their deformations.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
Course Content (Syllabus)
About maps and their uses. Brief review of the evolution of Cartography from the paleolithic era up to now. Map scale, map accuracy, detail of cartographic information, map revision, geographical phenomena, Map projections, shape and dimensions of the earth, cartographic distortions, scale distortion, area distortion, angular distortion, extrema and main directions of scale distortion, Tissot’s indicatrix, varying graphic scale. Cartographic generalization, selection, simplification, smoothing, aggregation, classification. Map layout, map margins, map area, grids, graticules, point, line and area symbols, visual arrangement of map information, map readability, map annotation. Map lab for Carto-excercise.
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Use of computer software for the presentation of the lectures and connection to relative sites during the lectures.
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures39✓
Laboratory Work47✓
Tutorial39✓
Total125
Student Assessment
Description
Written exams. Oral examination of the exercise.
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Summative)
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Summative)
  • Oral Exams (Formative)
  • Labortatory Assignment (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1. Robinson A., Morrison J., Muehrecke P., Kimerling J., Guptill S., 2002, Στοιχεία Χαρτογραφίας, Πανεπιστημιακές εκδόσεις ΕΜΠ (κωδικός βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 20314
Additional bibliography for study
1. Παπαδοπούλου Μ., 2009, Εισαγωγή στη Χαρτογραφία, Πανεπιστημιακές Παραδόσεις, ΤΑΤΜ, ΑΠΘ 2. Λιβιεράτος Ε., Γενική Χαρτογραφία, Ζήτη 3. URLs δικτυακών τόπων, στους οποίους οι φοιτητές προαιρετικά μπορούν να ψάξουν βιβλιογραφία, ύλη ή διαλέξεις άλλων πανεπιστημίων πάνω στη Χαρτογραφία
Last Update
18-02-2025