Lab 3

View Washington DC Tour in a larger map

This lab is focus on Neogeography, which is about people using and creating their own maps, on their own terms and by combining elements of an existing toolset. It is about sharing location information with friends and visitors, helping shape context, and conveying understanding through knowledge of place. In this week lab, I did a tour of Washington D.C. by using a pre-existing mapping toolkit, Google map.

Neogeography is different for everyone. So it is special and very creative. It has a large space to develop. Like Google map, it is quite easy to begin with, so everyone can easily express their own neogeography. It has some options for us to make our own map, we can add pictures, videos, also make our own tour routes and polygons.

However, neogeography is not very popular among people who are not geography major or work relevant with geography. If I didn’t take this class, I would not be able to know that I can make my own map just by easily using Google map, my map, to create. Also, neogeography needs a big space to share and develop, now, too few people focus on this thing, while it doesn’t have a enough effect.