View Night Markets in Taipei in a larger map
My map above details some of the most famous locations for street food and street shopping in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan is famous for its xiaochi, or small snacks, of which there are hundreds to choose from, from fried, to grilled, to soft, crunchy, and more.
Neogeography: Benefits and Pitfalls
Neogeography is a term used to describe the use of
geographic tools for personal or community use by non-professionals. In the Internet
age, the use of neogeography has greatly expanded due to greater access to
information as well as to geographic tools. Neogeography is incredible because
it brings individuals closer to the locations in which they live and to the
geography of the Earth.
Many geographers and other professionals argue that
neogeography is going to be the downfall of GIS and of professional geography, desperately
hoping to distinguish their work from the work of novices on platforms such as
Google Maps. To some extent, it seems that neogeography has slightly diluted traditional map-making. We are now surrounded
by maps of our friends’ favorite eateries, maps of election data, twitter data,
and everything in between, all made by ‘amateurs’. Because of this, there is
less regulation of the data that we see, and agendas are not as clear to the
average viewer.
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