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Cars have sat nav systems, mobile phones use GPS: maps are important in everyday life whether captured by aerial photography, satellite imagery or simply drawn.
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
1 hour, 58 minutes
Units & Quizzes
11
Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion
This course, Why maps are made, looks at how we read and evaluate the information in maps and assesses the values embedded within them. From mental maps to public transport and street maps: how do they affect your life?
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Identify some of the important characteristics of maps in relation to their value to social science
- Recognise and give examples of how maps can influence our “view” of the world
- Describe the relationship between data and space as represented on a map.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction 00:05:00
- Learning outcomes 00:05:00
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- What makes a map? 00:15:00
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- How do we use maps? 00:10:00
- Mental maps 00:10:00
- Maps as history 00:15:00
- Maps and the circuit of knowledge 00:10:00
- Maps and the modern world 00:10:00
- Mapmaking for the twenty-first century 00:10:00
