NeoGeography: an extension of mainstream geography for everyone made by everyone?

摘要

This issue of the journal aims to bring together proposals, critique and implementations of the recently emerged and actively debated topics of NeoGeography. Despite differing viewpoints on the definition of NeoGeography, most researchers would agree on the common keywords that have come to be associated with the works on NeoGeography. These keywords include Web 2.0, mashups, public participation, social networking, volunteered geographical information, crowd-sourced data, user-generated content, open source maps API and affordable navigational devices, principally GPS data loggers. If one brings together these ideas and tools to represent some geographical information, the outcome falls somewhere in the undefined extent of NeoGeography. However, not all observers of geographical information science and technology are comfortable with such a vague label for this phenomenon.