week 3

View Brazil Trip in a larger map

The Mash-up map that I created is the large scale route I took to get from Los Angeles to various cities in Brazil and back during my most recent Winter Break along with some commentary at each stop.

Neogeography has both it's benefits and pitfalls. Because it is so easy to create your own personal map on websites such as Google Maps, anyone with an internet connection can create and make public a map. This allows us, as users, to be connected to a plethora of information about almost location in the world at the click of a mouse. This is great if you want to share with friends and family a travel itinerary of your recent vacation with pictures and video each stop or post some of your favorite local hot-spots for the community. But because there is no one to monitor the millions of maps created, we don't know if the information posted by the public is accurate. It is commonly believed that there is no such thing as too much information, but if that information is unreliable, it can't be trusted in either the scientific of social community. This is probably why dynamic maps are not nearly as popular as other online social-mediums, because they are based so much on opinion and lack regulation.