View European Tour of 2007 in a larger map
For this assignment, I created a map mash-up of my European
trip of 2007. During the summer of 2007 my best friend and I spent 22 days on a
Contiki tour traveling through eight different countries. This map depicts our
general itinerary. I have included
pictures of all of our main stops and excursions along the tour.
This map illustrates one of the many uses of neogeography.
Neogeography, literally meaning “new geography”, is an informal form of
geography in which users can create and generate online geographic content. Using
web based toolsets created by providers such as Google, Bing, and MapQuest,
people can create detailed maps with embedded links, images, videos, etc. The
content created is interactive and can be made available to the general public.
The interactive and user friendly nature of neogeography increases the
accessibility of geographical information to those outside of geography
professionals. As a result, location information is now more so a part of everyday
life.
With all of neogeography’s assets and advantages, there are
some detriments as well. Neogeography is open to everyone and the content that
can be created is almost limitless. Consequently, many inaccuracies can be
found. Unlike formal geographical projects, the content of geography is biased
by the user creating it and restricted by the toolsets provided. For example,
within my map, there are several route inaccuracies. My map depicts my general itinerary,
but it is not based on an actual route that could be traveled, (i.e. it does
not display the best roads or highways that one should travel from destination to
destination).
Neogeography, like other user created web content, is extremely
useful. However, one must be aware that what they are creating, reading, using is
not guaranteed to be legitimate data.
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