Lab 2a

View Mexico City Highlights in a larger map

There are plenty of advantages to neogeography. Mobile technology allows us to not only locate exactly where in the world many monuments and important places are, it allows us to post pictures of the street level view of the area, link videos, hours of operation, facts, notes and pretty much any kind of information you would like to attach to the point of interest on the google map. This shrinks the world, mentally, and allows for massive geographic collaboration. In so doing, neographic maps are much more accurate because every time a possible error arises, users can edit the error or at least post discrepancies.

However, problems arise in neogeography when massive ammounts of users disagree on locationality all the time. This negates any possibility for a locational authority to insist on a true location. The question arises whether in the future consensus building will remain the authority, or whether a greater authority will arise to consolidate locational edits and discern a true geography for GIS usage. Otherwise everyone will be using different GIS systems based upon different authorities and it will become more difficult to collaborate.