User:Bplewe

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

Cartography/GIS 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
 * Geodetic datum
 * Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate system
 * Spatial database