Week 3 Lab, My Summer Travels Mashup Map

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Neography is an incredibly powerful tool that is being used more all the time. Even the most technically unsavvy people are realizing that they too can participate in neography, mostly through the portal of mashups. This is wonderful because now everyone is a geographer and is motivated to learn more about maps and geography. The potential of neography is endless; while the platform is a software, usually by a big company like Google, it is completely user-driven. Without the users, there is no neography. As more people become interested in the current neography platforms, the demand for new platforms will arise, thus growing even larger.
The problem with neography is that it creates a very large potential for false information. A similar comparison could be drawn with Wikipedia, which lets users create and edit pages about any topic. However, Wikipedia has a very large staff of people closely monitoring user edits, so it is not a very good comparison. With neography, there are simply too many mashups and other websites that it is impossible to monitor everything. When a person is trying to look up something online, there is a very high possibility that they will run into misinformation. This can be very discouraging and frustrating to people, which could drive them away from the concept of neography.