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Brandon Plewe

Associate Professor of Geography

Brigham Young University

Provo, Utah, USA

Research/editing interests:

• Cartography
• GIScience (especially spatial information theory)
• Western U.S. human and physical landscape

"My" pages, which I try to watch over

• Hillside letters, including sub-pages

In August 2020, I undertook a project to improve or add basic pages on aspects of Cartographic design, with the goal of eventually removing the need for university cartography textbooks. In December 2020, I started working on a few targeted GIS pages for an intermediate GIS course, an effort I have continued to expand.

Pages that I have created:

• Cartographic design: pulled from the general (and too broad) Cartography page
• Visual variable: pulled from Map symbol
• Typography (cartography): There had earlier been a Cartographic labeling page (formerly Labeling (map design) ), but it had been removed because it had no citations for 12 years. I started with that text.
• Proportional symbol map
• Cost distance analysis
• Vector overlay
• Graticule (cartography)
• Spatial join
• Geodatabase (Esri)

Pages that I have overhauled:

• Field (geography)
• Cartographic generalization
• Map symbol
• Page layout (cartography)
• Figure-ground (cartography)
• Terrain cartography
• Thematic map
• Choropleth map
• Dasymetric map
• Bivariate map (renamed to Multivariate map)
• Flow map
• Cartogram
• Chorochromatic map
• Dot distribution map
• Friction of distance
• Geomorphometry
• Buffer (GIS)
• Transport network analysis
• Vector graphics
• Raster graphics
• Sliver polygon
• Data model (GIS)
• Map algebra
• Geographic coordinate system
• Spatial reference system
• Projected coordinate system (formerly Grid reference system)
• Geographic information system, although I would definitely not consider it finished.
• Geographic information system software, expanded from a list into a full article
• Geographical feature
• Proximity analysis
• GIS file format
• Georeferencing
• Georelational data model

Pages that I have edited moderately:

• Cartography
• Visual hierarchy
• Map
• Small multiple
• Geometric primitive
• Geographic information system#Applications
• Geodetic datum
• Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system
• Spatial database

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