Neogeography

= Neogeography combines the complex techniques of cartography and GIS and places them within reach of users and developers.

Definitions

1.

From the blog Placekraft at http://placekraft.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-is-neogeography-anyway.html

"Neogeography, as we see it, is a diverse set of practices that operate outside, or alongside, or in the manner of, the practices of professional geographers. Rather than making claims on scientific standards, methodologies of neogeography tend towards the intuitive, expressive, personal, absurd, and or artistic, but may just be idiosyncratic applications of "real" geographic techniques. This is not to say that these practices are of no use to the cartographic/geographic sciences, but that they just usually don't conform to the protocols of professional practice."

It includes "a broad field of activity that includes urban exploration, site specific sculpture, land/earth art, Geo-Tagging]], guided walks, ephemeral cities, imaginary urbanism, altered maps/radical cartography, travel writing, psychogeography, Place-based Photoblogging, etc. What connects all of these activities? There may not be a clear answer, but we would say they all comprise, or fall under the rubric of, neogeography."

2.

From Andrew Turner:

neogeography |nē’ō-jē-ŏg’rə-fē|

geographical techniques and tools used for personal activities or for utilization by a non-expert group of users; not formal or analytical.

[Greek, from neos, new. and Latin geōgraphia, from Greek geōgraphiā]

neogeographer ne’o·ge·og’ra·pher n.

At least it’s a succint phrasing of a concept that we can all collectively discuss. And finally, for just a small illustration: If you’re using Tagzania to measure biodiversity of the cuddle-fish, you’re doing GIS - if you’re using ArcGIS to make a map of your summer vacation, you’re doing neogeography." (http://highearthorbit.com/neogeography-towards-a-definition/)

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See also Geo-location Services