Portal:Cartography

Welcome to the Wikiversity Center for Cartography.

The Center for Cartography is a Wikiversity content development project where participants create, organize and develop learning resources for map-making and related activities ranging from simple hand-drawn maps to sophisticated computerized GIS data models.

Related studies
Part of Engineering and Technology

Relates to:
 * Mechanical Engineering
 * Production and Design Engineering
 * Computer Science
 * Civil Engineering

Learning materials

 * WikiMap (WikiMapia)
 * Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)
 * CAD Lesson - Principles of CAD and Terminology

Related learning projects

 * Geoinformatics (Computer Science)
 * Computer Aided Design Course

Software

 * OCAD - a software program designed to draw maps of all types.
 * Inkscape - a vector graphics editor application compliant with the XML, SVG and CSS standards.
 * The GIMP - an image manipulation package freely-available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X.

Resources

 * Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER)
 * U.S. Census Bureau TIGER web page
 * Tiger Map Server Browser
 * GRASS: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System