Welcome to a new year of Cartography: GEOG 2336.2
I will periodically use this blog to post relevant articles and items related to the course content. Sometimes I will draw your attention to this in class and sometimes I won't. You might want to get in the habit of periodically checking this space.
While we begin the first weeks of the course, you might want to start using Google Maps. In order to create your own maps, you will need to create a user name and password.
We will be using Adobe Illustrator in the labs, which begin the week of January 12. Some students prefer to purchase the software (particularly since there isn't a cost for a course textbook). You can access the Adobe web site for educational software discounts here. Before you go ahead and purchase it, you might want to shop around a bit to see if it can be found cheaper elsewhere. If you plan to solely work in the Geography Department computer lab there is no need to purchase the software: it is on all of the lab computers. It is not on any other campus computers, however. You may also prefer to spend more time working on the labs from home or on your personal laptop computer. There are many online tutorials that you might want to make use of: here is one. The first lab will quide you through one such tutorial.
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