Web Cartography

Course aim

This course is designed for students to enhance their acquired knowledge to communicate geospatial information effectively and efficiently through a web browser. Students will gain skills in internet map creation, cartographic web map design, and communication with online maps.

Course content

This course is organized around active-learning projects. Course content includes:   

• Web development and design as a means of cartographic delivery and communication.
• System architectures for web maps
• Web map elements
• Design theory for web maps
• Thematic layers (data overlays)
• Interaction concepts - Human-Map Interactivity
• Web map projections
• Mobile GIS
• 3D Web maps
• Web map production (APIs, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript web map libraries)
• Web-based spatial analysis
• Evaluation of web maps’ usability

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
GEOE 2026	Spatial Data Acquisition and Analysis

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
Practical	2 hours x 13 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Creative work, Presentation, Proposal, Test/Quiz

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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Non-award enrolment
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.