geo7-assignment3

在较大的地图中查看Around the World in Eighty Days
[Please check it in larger format so that you can get a better view of it. This is a map that shows the route of Phileas Fogg's travel in Around the World in Eighty Days, the fiction novel of Jules Verne. He travelled from London and around the world in 80 days. The map shows the way he travelled and time he spent on each trip. The map also shows how the places he visited looked like in 1870s.

A video was attached to the spot of London. Please check it in larger format.]

Neogeography topic:

Neogeography uses many technologies that make maps visually attractive and make searching process fun, thus it enables a wider audience to use maps easily. And it also encourages people to set up their own maps so that it captures people’s spatial senses and geographic imagination.

It’s fully possible in the future when maps can be something like Wikipedia that lets ordinary people to edit the most-viewed information online, and tons of contents like videos, pictures, URLs can be added to the maps so that people can get a better understanding of the places they’re interested in.

However, nowadays more and more information available is created by ordinary people rather than professionals, and databases are built from so-called “folksonomy” rather than scientific “taxonomy”; these phenomena may lead to misleading and confusions to users who are not wary to choose maps. It’s hard for ordinary people to take some key geographic concepts like coordination and projection into consideration when making maps and that may result in inaccuracy of the data and questionable interpretations.

So like many other technologies, Neogeography can be both good and bad, that depends on how people use it.