Lab3

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The map I created is about the tour that I am going to have with my parents. It is a ten-days tour in the west. The tour covers several cities with different view of natural. The desert and the ocean will be the main focus in the sightseeing. I believe that the tour I will bring to my parents will be a fantastic trip.

Neogeography is an application that gives people a simple and fast tool of creating their own maps. The new technology that uses in neogeography is more concentrating on the interaction with people. People without any knowledge of creating a map could use the neogeography to share their lives in a map to their friends. Since the neogeography is a web-based technology, the information exchange using neogeography is world wide, which will give people a chance to see different life-style of other countries. Moreover, The geological and spatial information exchange becomes easier. Lots of spatial-based ideas will appear on the Internet, which gives professionals easy access. Volunteered spatial information will be online with detailed information.

Neogeography has many benefits not just for non-experts. On the other hand, for professionals  there still exists some pitfalls of using the technology. Free access means that the information is not reliable. False data may occurred since the data is from non-experts and volunteers. As a result, the information online may be confused for non-professionals, which information trustable? Also, for professionals, even though they have the sense of  distinguishing false data, but it still will take a lot of time for them, which would decreasing the efficiency for them.

Neogeography is a new technology for people to make their own maps, which will have both benefits and pitfalls. However, with a sense of suspecting data from the Internet, people who do not know about GIS or other professional application still can use to make their life simpler.