Lab 3

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Neogeography

Maps were created for helping people to locate their positions or to get the routes to their destinations. During recent decades, maps have been changing from some boring pieces of paper to some fancy programs in devices. Neogeography is the most significant example out of these programs.

Since neogeography maps can be created by any person, the credibility of those maps is inevitably low. Meanwhile, these maps are inaccurate as the makers may use simple or even wrong geographic skills instead of professional knowledge to produce maps. These kinds of maps are also subjective since everyone has his or her point of view. For example, let say someone creates a map called "The Top 10 Places That Worth to Visit in L.A.", those places may not be the "top ten" of everyone's minds; it is just the opinion of the map maker.

Nevertheless, this type of mapping provides an opportunity for people to innovate maps. People can show their special talents with their creative maps. Throughout the creating process, people gain a chance to think more. They can also share their knowledge and experiences with the others. Moreover, neogeography has put human beings into a different generation of map. Before, map is a tool for telling the way to reach one destination; however, this latest map is more than getting people from one point to another; instead, it contains many useful information for the users, such as pictures, lengths of the routes, and detailed information of every places.

The benefits of having neogeography is that we have a chance to see more about the earth, where we live in. In addition, neogeography is a users friendly map. On the other hand, we are not able to put everything on the map because there are too many things exist on the earth. Also, we may be misled by certain fake information from neogeography maps.