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Neogeography
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Neogeography (literally "new geography") is the use of geographical techniques and tools for personal and community activities or by a non-expert group of users.[1] Application domains of neogeography are typically not formal or analytical.[2]
From the point of view of human geography, neogeography could be also defined as the use of new specific information society tools, especially the Internet, to the aims and purposes of geography as an academic discipline; in all branches of geographical thought and incorporating contributions from outside of geography performed by non-specialist users in this discipline through the use of specific geographic ICT tools. This new definition, complementing previous ones, restores to academic geography the leading role proponents claim it should play when considering a renewal of the discipline with the rigor and right granted by its centuries-existence, but also includes the interesting social phenomenon of citizen participation in the geographical knowledge from its dual role: as undoubted possibility of enrichment for geography and as social phenomenon with geographic interest.[citation needed]
- ^ Flanagin, A. J.; Metzger, M. J. (2008). "The credibility of volunteered geographic information". GeoJournal. 72 (3–4): 137–148. doi:10.1007/s10708-008-9188-y. S2CID 15975229.
- ^ Turner, Andrew (2006). Introduction to Neogeography. Short Cuts. O'Reilly Media. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-596-52995-6.
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