How to cruise the Central Coast: an interactive digital map
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I admire neogeography's ease of use and how it is accessible to anyone with a computer. I only had a few technical difficulties in making this map, mainly with drawing the route efficiently and accurately. It took time to draw the line route that adheres to already existing routes, roads or freeways on the map, since it was difficult to tell the computer which exact route you wanted your own line to follow. It was also a bit difficult figuring how to properly embed or insert photos and videos into the map markers. But other than that it was easy to use and it can definitely help people share information with their peers in a visually attractive way.
However, from this experience with neogeography it seems as if the kind and extent of information you can use or present with neogeography is very limited. It seems as if - at least with GoogleMaps - all you do is make your own routes and then add place markers for places you find interesting. You cannot really do much analysis with neogeography, since it only allows you to create one-layer maps and only shows you where to go or where things are. This kind of neogeography seems more appropriate for social networking purposes or educating about place rather than doing spatial analysis, as you could with GIS. Thus the limits of neogeography seem to lie in the fact that it deals with more superficial information.
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